When dealing with any chronic health condition, you eventually face a crucial decision: whether to fully commit to your healing journey or just do enough to get by. True commitment means going beyond the bare minimum and dedicating yourself wholeheartedly to the process. Photo by Ugne Vasyliute on Unsplash Doing the Bare Minimum For much…

When dealing with a chronic illness, there are a lot of things we have to “leave behind”, which adds an additional layer of grief, often following us on our healing journey, begging to be acknowledged and felt. Grief Beyond Loss of People Contrary to popular notions, grief doesn’t only happen when we lose someone close…

My definition of healing has continuously shifted throughout my healing journey with Topical Steroid Withdrawal. When I first started TSW over a decade ago, my definition of healing was having clear and essentially perfect skin. I never expected my journey would take as long as it has, and that I would still be dealing with…