Living With Chronic Conditions: Making Space for the Whole Person

Living with chronic conditions can change the landscape of everyday life. Pain, fatigue, uncertainty, and the constant attention that symptoms can require may affect our energy, relationships, work, identity, and hopes for the future. There may be grief for what has changed or how we expected life would be, as well as fear or frustration with our limitations and the ongoing effort of adapting to a body that might feel uncomfortable and may no longer be predictable.