Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 34
I see the cringe as I rise from my two hours' sitting – 'are you OK?' 'I am in pain' 'if there was only more that we could do ...' I hear the cry [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 33
In which, ten days after I had started to emerge from the virus, I may actually, almost, be free. The sinus congestion had seemed to signal the turning of the virus, like [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 32
It was a fog, thickly white, suffocating. It was an anvil or grand piano falling suddenly, heavily, from a snapped rope. It was a prison door closing out the light, the freedom. It was [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 31
Sniffles, and a cotton wool head. Overwhelming desire to lie down and close my eyes. Muscles stiff, sore; limbs heavy. It is the season, so perhaps this is a virus? The days [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 30
In recent Diary entries, I have moved from sorrow at what I was losing to the chronic fatigue, through taking significant steps forward into greater wellbeing, even while sometimes seemingly stepping momentarily backwards. In [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 29
Less than a week after I reflected on some good energy, healthy practices and rhythms, and an apparent turning of a corner towards wellness, I was overcome with tiredness and slept a whole afternoon [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 28
In which I appear to have taken further strides towards living well with chronic illness. I finished the stroke, stepped onto the step, and smiled, from deep within: I feel amazing. This [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 27
Public speaking, performance, oral storytelling. This is my craft. I am good enough at it that others will listen to me and learn from me in order to develop their own skills and techniques. [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 26
Living with chronic illness seems to me, today, to be like having automatic additives mixed in with every experience. By my calculations, I have three additives that compound the normal tiredness that [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 25 (Lent Reflection 3)
Two Lent reflections in one week, after three weeks of not writing the reflections I had intended, when Lent began. Such is Lenten practice with Chronic Exhaustion. Yesterday I wrote about the [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 24 (Lent Reflection 2)
Back in March, I had this idea that I would write a Lent reflection each week of the season. However, here we are, closing out week 5, and this is only the second of [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 23 (Lent Reflection 1)
Contemplation Corner Holy Solitude. That’s the name of a book I got to inspire my reflection this Lenten season. (Holy Solitude, Heidi Haverkamp) With characters from biblical stories and from the history of religious [...]