Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based on given prompts. Saturday 25th April: Word Cloud Use Wordle to make a cloud full of words that come to mind when you think of your blog, health condition, interests or community. Pro Tip: Use a thesaurus to make...
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This post is for a competition run by an organisation called Labs* by One Squat Shop together with health activist Megan Densmore. Megan has organised a team of film-makers to make a documentary, called Invisible which highlights and raises awareness of invisible health conditions. Lindsay Tabas of One Squat Shop has teamed up with Megan and with designer Mat Poirot have produced a limited edition t-shirt which together with the film highlights and makes people aware of the invisible symptoms that people...
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Imagine you are a marathon runner, struggling at the half-way mark. You are fatigued, suffering from muscle cramps and out of breath. However, you are determined to complete the marathon and cross the finish line. So, what spurs you onto the finish the marathon despite the pain and fatigue? I can imagine that one thought that would help is to know that the end is in sight and awareness that the pain and fatigue will eventually end. [caption id="attachment_72699" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Unlike marathon runners,...
Continue readingLast week (9-15th September 2013) was National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. The idea behind this particular Awareness Week is to raise awareness of invisible chronic illnesses (which there are many!) as well as providing support to those suffering from such conditions, who may feel misunderstood by others, who often disbelieve their illness because they 'look so good'. What does a person with an invisible chronic illness look like? The truth is, they look just like you or me. Look at...
Continue readingOn Wednesday at the 'Life 4 Living' group that I attend, we had a very interesting seminar on Diversity. In the seminar we were split into two groups and given a laminated sheet with a picture of an island, and a deck of cards with pictures of a diverse group of people, with only their occupation listed on the cards. We were then told that a ship carrying the people on the cards was in an accident, which resulted in...
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