Strengthening Your Core Without Causing a Flare: Part Two...Learn the basics in Strengthening Your Core: Part 1 here! In part one, I focused on what makes up the core, and...reactions1comment
Getting out of Bed with Spondyloarthritis, Part II...Motivation to begin exercising is a major problem for me. I'm just tired - mentally and physically - from family drama, a...reactions3comments
How I Celebrate Spondyloarthritis Month...Spondyloarthritis month began this month, and although I live with it all year long, it’s kind of nice to have a whole...reactionscomments
Rethinking Arthritis Fatigue...My sister Danica* has a next-level guest room. If she ever decided to quit working in [redacted] Danica would conquer the hospitality...reactionscomments
Rest and Back Pain...Getting a good night's rest is something many of us in this community struggle with. I too have had and still have...reactions2comments
The Question that Keeps Me Up at Night...There's a question that keeps me up at night. Could my husband, Keegan, be suffering from more than just AS? What if...reactions5comments
Coming Back Home to Myself...I am making more space for things that are good for me. I am temporarily separating myself from the ideology of productivity...reactions1comment
I Miss Having a Choice...Every morning I wake up immediately feeling the fire behind my eyes and think to myself, “Time to do the same thing...reactions3comments
Day in the Life: Flare Day...I’m going to walk you through what my day looks like when I’m flaring. As a note, I do have other conditions...reactionscomments
7 Items That Help with my AxSpA...With a chronic illness that is largely out of my control, I rely on certain items to give me a sense of...reactions1comment
My One Year Painiversary...As my one-year painiversary is coming up, I thought writing an article about this topic was important. My last pain-free day was...reactions1comment
The Therapeutic Effects of Sharing Your AxSpA Story...When I was first diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of axial spondyloarthritis, I wasn’t sure how to talk about my experience...reactions1comment
Reflecting On My Past Year With AS...I turned 35 on November 3 (yes, election day, and no — that wasn't ideal at all, ha!). The night before —...reactions1comment
What Happens When I Overdo It...Ever since COVID hit, I haven’t really been active. I wasn’t the most active person before, but I’ve barely even done yoga...reactions2comments
You are just a monster ... I am not scared!...On the good days (still in pain but manageable), I feel like I am on top of the world. I am so...reactions5comments
9 Tangible Ways AS Has Helped Me...I can tell you 10,000 ways AS has limited me, annoyed me, pained me, frustrated me, and made me feel just awful...reactions2comments
Q and A About My Disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis...A: Haha, it's pronounced: AN-KUH-LOH-SING SPON-DILL-EYE-TIS. It's a degenerative inflammatory disease that is mediated by the immune system and primarily affects my...reactions2comments
The Old Me Vs. The New Me...I feel like something a lot of us do is compare. We compare the things we used to do to the things...reactionscomments
My Anxieties with COVID-19...I’m sure most of us are very anxious with COVID-19 having stuck around for this long. When first hearing about it, I...reactions1comment
My Journey with Ankylosing Spondylitis...My Name is Gillian and I live in Bromley Kent. l have two sons Mark and Lee l started to get pain...reactions6comments
