Life with chronic illness | The parts people don’t see
I’m Rob Nunnery. I’ve won 19 pro pickleball titles and I also live with Crohn’s and a colostomy. The newsletter gets sent 3x per week. Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Chronic illness shrinks people quietly. Plans change. Energy disappears. Bodies stop cooperating. Most of us carry it alone. This newsletter is a record of what it looks like to keep living anyway.
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Dance anyway
Published 7 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, This morning’s story was about a monk named Pema who danced every day after work at the monastery. Rain or shine. Old monks frowned. Said it was a distraction from prayer. But Pema smiled and said, “My dance is my prayer… I connect with the universe and experience joy and peace.” It's a reminder that presence doesn’t always come through stillness or silence or a seated, cross-legged pose. It can be movement. It can be sweat. Sometimes it’s a clean forehand flick. Even though...
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