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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Day 15 - Managing darts...
Published 7 months ago • 1 min read
In today’s chapter from Rick Hanson’s book Resilient, he breaks down two kinds of pain: first darts and second darts. First darts are the inevitable stuff, life’s little gut punches. Something hard happens. It stings. You can’t control it. Second darts are what we throw afterward. The rumination. The self-blame. The spiral. I had my own first dart a few days ago. A bathroom incident. Not going to get into the details, but it knocked me off center. The second dart was worse. My brain replaying...
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