Invisible Illness Awareness Week

13 September 2010

What You Need to know about Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week TODAY!

Yes, today is the big day! The beginning of this year’s Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week!

I know you’ll want to get involved, so here are some ways you can be a part of it. Do note, I’ve been having problems with their website today (it’s probably being mobbed by adoring fans right now), but if the links don’t work now, just try again later.

Invisible Illness Conference: This year there will be a seminar a day, each one 90 minutes long. If you listen live, you can even call in. If not, you can listen to archives. Each seminar will begin at 10:30am Pacific Time. The clock below should show you the current time in that time zone. See the Conference Schedule here. The actual conferences are right here, live and then archived.
If you didn’t already see the introductory videos, be sure to see those here. That will give you an idea what this is all about, and the special covert project that’s happening this year. 😉
Write a blog post, Facebook note, etc. Today is the day to do that, but if you can’t, try to post something this week. An easy idea is the "30 Things…" Meme. But there are even more ideas here. Once you’ve posted on your blog, you can add yourself to the list here to tell others about it!
There are more ways you can help here!
Sign up for the daily >Invisible Illness Week updates, and receive a free ebook. Look to the right of the page for the sign-up form.
You like to Tweet on Twitter? All the twitter information for this week is right here.

All right, that should keep you busy for a while. Don’t miss today’s seminar, Living with Invisible Illness, why it hurts, how to cope with life coach Mary Yerkes, author and speaker Maureen Pratt, and psychologist Georgia Shaffer. I know at least two of these ladies personally deal with chronic illness, so they speak from experience.

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15 September 2009

You’re not missing Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, are You?

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… I hope not! It’s on right now, right until the 20th (Sunday), so take advantage of it live if you can! There are opportunities to call in, there are prizes, and other ways to participate.

There are lots of online seminars (that’s right, you don’t even have to leave home!), with lots of down-to-earth topics to get you thinking and give you resources. Those will be going on all week until Friday. For example, what if you have chronic migraine, and you have a crisis situation on top of that? What do you do in a crisis, when sometimes you feel like your whole life is a crisis? That’s the topic of the seminar at 12pm (USA Pacific Time) today.

There are many more excellent seminars coming up later in the week – on Wednesday, Jenni Prokopy from ChronicBabe.com will talk about It’s OK to say NO: Building Healthy Boundaries (we all know it’s ok to say no – but … um … how do you do that??).

Also on Wednesday Marcia Ramsland, author of Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way will talk about simplifying your home.

Also coming up – Real Talk About Men and Chronic Illness, When Your Child is Chronically Ill, Helping Others Understand Your Pain, Being a Teenager with a Chronic Illness – and much more!

There are also many articles online, and guest bloggers with many helpful topics. For example, Will You Receive Disability Benefits If You have an "Open and Shut" Case? and When Your Children Are Ill.

Go now to the main Invisible Illness Week site to listen to archived seminars (you can also subscribe to the podcast), read articles, subscribe to the twitter feed, and do much more!

Headache and Migraine News is proud to be an official sponsor of this year’s Invisible Illness Week. Take advantage of the many resources available, and help get the word out about invisible illnesses of all kinds.

14 August 2009

Invisible Illness Week 2009 – Just 1 Month Away!

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Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (or you can call it Invisible Illness Week for short) is only one month away – I hope many of you will be able to take in some of the seminars that are planned.

This year Headache and Migraine News will be involved as an official sponsor. I would love to be involved more, but this time around my schedule is making it more difficult. But I encourage you to check out invisibleillnessweek.com to find resources, and help spread the word!

Of course there are many illnesses that are not obvious to those around us, and many of those are headache disorders and migraine, or diseases and conditions in which headache and migraine are a major issue. Invisible Illness Week is partly about bringing resources and hope to those with invisible illness, partly about networking and getting together and sharing, and partly about raising awareness.

Here are just a few of the topics that will be covered in the free online seminars:

Finding Health Insurance Coverage with a Pre-existing Condition (good one – and the speaker is an attorney and advocate for patients with chronic illness!)
Coping with Crises on Top of Chronic (doesn’t sound familiar to anyone, does it?)
Can Versus Should: Pregnancy, Children and Chronic Illness (issues a lot of people are dealing with)
Find the Job You Desire and Can Do (a tough one with invisible illness – get ready for some great tips!)
Surgery Preparation (now that sounds practical!)

These are only a few of the topics – read more and meet the great speakers here.

The dates are 14-21 September 2009 – promote it, check out the info on Twitter, Facebook, the blog tour, and much more – start here!

8 September 2008

Invisible Illness Week starts NOW

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Just a reminder that this is Invisible Illness Week! It’s starting right now.

Actually, the seminars start later today. Here is a list of the seminars, which will be broadcast via blog talk radio.

Some of the topics include:

Stress busters at work
Medications, Illness, Fertility and the desire for Motherhood
College and Chronic Illness
Illness and Faith
Friendships, Dating and Marriage: Can it all come together when you’re young and chronically ill?

As you can see, there’s quite a variety of topics, and those are only a few! There are some great speakers and great prizes to be won. So head on over and enjoy the week!

If you’re not able to listen live to the seminars, they will be available via MP3 afterwards, so stay tuned. For updates, check out the Invisible Illness Blog.

2 September 2008

Guest blogging for Invisible Illness Week

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I’m a guest blogger over at the Invisible Illness Week Blog today. Be sure to check out my post entitled RED ALERT! I have a cold.

But don’t stop there! There’s a lot of great reading, and even prizes to be won! I’m going to have some prizes in there for you to win too, if they’re not there already. They should fit well with my current series on mayofascial trigger points. 🙂

And welcome new visitors from the Invisible Illness Week Blog! This is a blog about headaches, migraine, cluster headache – so if you’re dealing with anything in that category, or have a friend or family member who is, go ahead and subscribe to this blog’s feed.

Feel free to browse through the archives or categories, or look for something specific using the search. This is a part of the larger Relieve-Migraine-Headache.com site, with over 200 more articles related to fighting headache and migraine.

Enjoy your visit, and all the best in your fight against invisible illness.