health anxiety – The Self-Help Whisperer®

Photo Journal – Oh, the places we’ve been!

Mom and I had a fantabulous week! The plane ride to and from was okay, too... but getting to the tarmac on time proved to be a pain in the…

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Health Journey (Cont.) 2022 – First Warmish Day = First walk of the season!

I knew it would be tough... seeing as I haven't walked for six months. Well, that's not exactly true as I tried walking about a month ago. It was freezing…

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Bio Moment – Spring Cleaning

9 Apr 202210 Apr 2022

I have a lot to tell you today! First of all, I want to apologize for the vagueness of something I said in a post last week. (Link here -…

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The Mindful Way Through Depression – This Navel Gazer Approves

29 Mar 202229 Mar 2022

Mindfulness = To "Pay attention on purpose." -pg. 47 I have to say something first. *ahem* The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon…

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X-Rays Show More Than Expected – All About That Base

With apologies to Meagan Trainor (and her VERY catchy and ear-worm-y song, All About That Bass), I'm actually talking about another base. As you know, I had x-rays after a…

Bio Moment – X-Rays, Apples & A Lonely Ball

11 Feb 202211 Feb 2022

After my nasty fall on Sunday evening (details HERE) I was trying to heal on my own. The reasons are many but boil down to about one or two: I…

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A Note For YOU! At Your Fingertips!

In late December, I was involved in a kitchen catastrophe! I was splitting peas after a long day in the fields and didn’t notice that I’d picked up a machete…

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Bio Moment – The Storm of January, 2022

17 Jan 202217 Jan 2022

It’s been a while since we’ve gotten the kind of snow that stops the world from spinning. The cars that try to get on the road? They’re spinning! The internet?…

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The Shift – Part 1 – His life’s meaning

3 Nov 20214 Nov 2021

I've mentioned the late Dr. Wayne Dyer more than once. In fact, the first time I mentioned him just happens to be in my very first post for this blog!…

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Love, Medicine & Miracles – What took so long?

19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021

"People need to know they have an option. You can focus living in the present moment, or you can get wrapped up in the horrors of the future and let…

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Mind to Matter – It all begins with a thought…

26 Aug 202115 Sep 2021

I'm going to tell you a few things right up front... This is a Mom's PickThis will take a commitment of at least a week (or in my case, a…

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YOU The Owner’s Manual – Prescription: Take the next 371 pages and call them in the morning

12 Jul 202112 Jul 2021

"Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?" - Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. It will surprise you -…

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Bio Moment – Health Anxiety, Be Gone!

This is going to be written stream-of-consciousness and without my usual attention to detail. It's not to say it will be poorly-written, just quickly and without pretence. I have found…

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Walking as self-help! – Perfect timing!

7 Jun 20213 Jul 2021

You guys! Today, I went for the first walk of what I hope will be many! I’m starting slow and let me tell you why... Several months ago my doctor…

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The Me You Can’t See – Inside Out

25 May 202125 May 2021

TW: Mental Health, Suicide Ideation, Depression & Anxiety I've been watching the AppleTV series, "The Me You Can't See" and have been feeling that all-familiar nudge to write about it.…

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Bio Moment – Reflections on a Monday afternoon

3 May 20213 May 2021

For anyone else, today would just simply be... another day. For me? Not so much. It begins with a small gathering of medical appointments. Today, blood test. Wednesday, Covid vaccine…

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Easy like Sunday – pERfectiON Not REquirED

14 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

April 14, 2021 Today's reblog is a post about my perfectionism and myriad meds. Fitting. See, yesterday, after six months of being off, I decided to go back on my…

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Bio Moment – Doing it afraid

7 Apr 20217 Apr 2021

April 7, 2021 Up for reblogging today is a post about my health anxiety and my asthma and my this and my that because CLEARLY I am the most important…

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Bio Moment – The Bandaid

31 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

Last night, as we got into bed, I took a heavy quilt off my side of the bed and tossed it aside. It had been my second attempt at using…

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Breath – Confession: It was torture

18 Mar 202115 Sep 2021

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. - From the inside…

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Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…

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My YouTube Experiment Continues – Health Anxiety and the Doctor’s Appointment

24 Nov 202013 May 2021

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Your Body Believes Every Word You Say – One of the truest titles, ever!

Reading Your Body Believes Every Word You Say by the late Barbara Hoberman Levine (2014) wasn't easy. After all, I suffer, as you know, from health anxiety. <<< Link to…

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Leaning In – Profile Photo Edition

31 Oct 202031 Oct 2020

Something happened this morning... It is "nothing about me" and "everything about me" ... and "everything about you," too. Let's see what you think! Good Ol' Facebook asked that you…

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Remember this one?* – Moody Bitches

“Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren’t developing cures; they’re creating customers.” ― Julie Holland Moody…

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Remember this one?* – This is Me

"Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

Picture of the Day – In search of breath & flowers

I am sure I'm not alone in saying I hate Covid-19. I hate that a whole spring and summer was spent inside and that we finally went to the mall…

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How’m I doing with 2020: Year of Clarity?

20 Aug 202020 Aug 2020

Every year I pick a word to focus on and this year the word is Clarity. When I first talked about the word, I was thinking of... Uh... Myself. Yeah,…

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Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.” ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…

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Remember this one? – Wherever You Go, There You Are

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn is…

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Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 202016 Jun 2020

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…

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Remember this one? – Migraine

19 May 202019 May 2020

Ann Redfearn’s Migraine is one of my books with little post-it arrows sticking out, marking important pages. It’s not a big book like the Fibro book I talked about last month. It’s small…

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Remember this one? – “Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain”

I remember the first time I mentioned to my doctor that I believe I have Fibromyalgia. She rolled her eyes. I stopped as I wrote that last part, about her…

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Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

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Easy like Sunday – Nana & Bappa’s Legacy

2 Feb 202012 Aug 2020

My friends and readers, Thanks so much for being patient with me during the transition from laze-about blogger to full-time employee with a blog side-hustle. Sixty may be the new…

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Bio Moment – Getting surgled

12 Oct 201915 Oct 2019

As you may or may not be aware, I had hand surgery on Monday. It's too difficult (at the moment) to link everything but suffice it to say it was…

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Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Oct 2019

Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD is the perfect self-help book, if by self-help you mean actually doing stuff to ... you know... help yourself.…

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Full Catastrophe Living – Reminds me of someone I know (Hint: it’s me!)

25 Aug 20199 Oct 2019

"This book is an invitation to the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing." From page 1 of the Introduction- Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the…

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Easy like Sunday – Some stuff I noticed this week

18 Aug 201912 Aug 2020

It's been a while since we've had a little sit-down chat... so here I am... sitting. :) Grab a cuppa and join me, won't you? If April showers bring May…

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Bio Moment – Lesson learned (the hard way, as usual!)

30 Jul 201930 Jul 2019

Be glad I'm not sharing the live video I did (and then deleted) on Facebook about this situation (that you don't know yet). I know, I know... I should have…

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Easy like Sunday – Pushing through…

28 Jul 201912 Aug 2020

It's been a rough week. I'm saying this - right off the hop - because I'm going there. So, if you're in the mood for fluffy what-nots and rainbow unicorn farts…

If you have a medical or mental health emergency, call your doctor or 911.

Nothing contained in this blog (The Self-Help Whisperer®) is intended to establish or replace a physician-patient relationship or services.

If you are IN CRISIS and NEED TO TALK but don’t know who to call…

In USA: Mental Health America In Crisis? Call 1-800-273-TALK

Or elsewhere in the world – By Country, as compiled by Wikipedia

Suicide hotline numbers

Someone dies from suicide every 40 seconds

United States 1 800 273 8255

Canada 1 800 456 4566