Tag: Crohn’s Disease

• A New Lease on Life

  

  I didn’t even know how much I needed it until it arrived. (Well, that’s not exactly true.) I was crossing my fingers and toes that I would get good news, but I was preparing myself for the worst just in case. “Just in case” may feel like a denial of hope in a given situation.…

  Marlene Kelly

  February 19, 2012

  Health and Healing, Intuition

  autoimmune disease, bespoken, body, choice, colon, colonoscopy, control, Crohn’s Disease, decisions, diagnosis, dysplasia, feeling like a victim, gastroenterologist, healing, health, hope, just in case, lease, marlene kelly, meditation, perspective

• Finding the Power of Being Quiet

  

  “Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” -Anais Nin While sitting alone in a little restaurant in Tivoli to finish reading Susan Cain’s book about introverts, my quiet afternoon was interrupted…

  Marlene Kelly

  January 18, 2012

  Books I love, Personal Development

  creative expression, creativity, Crohn’s Disease, Extrovert, intimacy junkie, Introvert, Judy Blume, marlene kelly, media, peace, power, Quiet, Silence, Solitude, Susan Cain, Victor D’Altorio, writing

• Don’t Say a Prayer for Me Now, Save It ‘Til the Morning After You Read This

  Day 14: #Trust30 Project This is the first summer since I was twelve years old that I haven’t worked. When I think back on that particular summer, I remember being so sick and moonfaced from the prednisone prescribed to me while I was hospitalized to control my Crohn’s Disease, I wasn’t able to play softball even…

  Marlene Kelly

  August 9, 2011

  Books I love, Personal Development

  #trust30, adolescence, adolescent, author, Books I love, childhood, Crohn’s Disease, duran duran, escape, Judy Blume, library, literature, marlene kelly, reading, summer, vacation, write, writer

• Visualize the Impossible

  If you’ve ever been to a psychologist’s office or read a self-help book, you’ve probably come across the concept of visualization as a technique for creating change in your life. In the sixth grade, I was very ill. I spent a lot of time in and out of the different hospitals and various doctors’ offices…

  Marlene Kelly

  October 19, 2010

  Intuition, Personal Development, Self Growth, Spirituality

  adolescence, anxiety, bespoken, Catholic, Crohn’s Disease, devil, duran duran, God, godzilla, grandmother, IBD, imagination, impossible dream lyrics, inflammation, Joe Darion, man of la mancha, marlene kelly, meditation, messages from the deceased, Mitch Leigh, original sin, possibility, possible, psychology, relaxation, school counselor, self-help, self-hypnosis, separation of church and state, unreachable star, visualization, visualize