Hi pal! I am so excited you found me and are here! I can NOT wait for us to get a chance to get to know one another and grow together as we navigate life with chronic illness! Finding our place in this world can be hard but now that we are together we can do so much more! My name is Willow and I am a 27 year old woman trying to thrive in this world with my chronic illnesses in tow. I wanted to create a place that was no longer a giant highlight reel but a place to get real information, that is actually helpful. There is no gatekeeping here when it comes to information. If you don’t see a blog on something: Tell me and it will be up the next Tuesday/ Thursday (I post every Tues/ Thurs). This is a place to in a sense “skip the learning curve” that took me so long to adjust too once I was diagnosed. There are so many things that are trying to grab your attention and use it all up. I want to help you identify: what is important and what you can do to make sure that those things are protected. It is easy to get burnout when you are fighting your own body so you have to learn how to put up boundaries and hold true to them… & quickly. This page is about balancing chronic illnesses with NORMAL WANTS AND GOALS. Wait.. did she just say that? Yes, you can still have goals and hobbies that you love to do and you can still do them. The only thing that could possibly change your hobbies would be to what extent you can be involved in them. You can still be who you were you just have to learn who the new you is. What the new normal is going to be, and once you know that the world is back to being your oyster.

So let’s get to know you!