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I got an email from a subscriber and I didn't know how to respond. I started. I stopped. I couldn't find the right words to express exactly what it meant to me. I sent a reply but the words weren't right, I needed more time, more words to explain to her how much her email  was so much more than 'just an email'. I can't really explain it, but I owe it to her to try.  So you know when you and your friend both get in a car to go somewhere and you only have one charger? You both check your phones to see what percent you each have? Their phone's at 5% and your phone is at 3%?  But for some reason, they insist you use the charger first? That's what you did for me. Though you yourself are running low, you so graciously allowed me to charge first. That's love. Maybe that's the millennial in me talking, but that's like sacrificial lamb, lay on the grenade type love for my generation. It's taken me awhile but I got your email. And true st...

This December join Spoonie Essentials Box and T he Unchargeables Community for the #SpreadLove17 challenge. For 31 days we will share questions and prompts to reflect, #SpreadLove, and share extra care to ourselves and others to close out the  2017 year! To join the festivites all you have to do is post a picture to Facebook or Instagram, tag  @SpoonieEssntls  & @TheUnchargeables , then simply answer the prompt for the day. Whether you're playing along to WIN Spoonie Essentials Box Cash or Unchargeables gear, you must answer at least 50% of the prompts to be entered to win! The Unchargeables Spoonie Essentials #SpreadLove challenge goal is to help Chronic-illness Warriors be mindful of what they do have rather than focusing on what they don't. In focusing our energies and minds to an attitude of gratitude, it shifts the way in which we cope with living with chronic illness(es).  The goal setting for 2018 are self-awareness and acceptance exercises, not ...

Disability Advocate and Speaker Annie Elainey unboxes the Chronically-ill Terminally Fabulous Spoonie Essentials Box!

The "Chronically-ill Terminally Fabulous" Box was inspired by #GutsAndGlamTees owner Alyssa, when she posted the Lifestyle phrase on her "Pro-Pill Popper" reminder dry eras board.  I felt like it described my mindset of my chronic-illness experience lifestyle. Yeah i'm "forever sick" but I, you, we are still strong-resillient-kind-loving fabulous fighters! This box is all about appreciating and celebrating the regal-ness in your strength! We chronic illness patient Warriors go through so much and still remain some of the most kind, compassionate, and amazing people on this earth. There is such an enchanting grace and beauty in that level of strength. I was raised to not expect gifts on my birthday but to gift the people who had stuck by you another year with a token of your appreciation. So I wanted to celebrate and pamper all of you for being some of the most CHRONICALLY ILL TERMINALLY FABULOUS people I've ever had the...

I watched an Instagram video awhile back of P.diddy, also known as Sean Combs the Sean John billionair, giving a speech at Howard University's Commencement. Diddy, trying to inspire whatever next generation of leaders into action inspired a thought. Diddy said quite clearly, "there is no rescue team, there is no one coming, there is only you... you have to make a decision that when you fail and fall to your knees you will get back up and remember the power of you. You ARE your own light in the darkness". Watch the video for yourself here ! The thought? Well, it feels like the moment you realize you've been waiting your entire life to accept something so obvious and so right in front of your face. I don't know about you but it feels like I've spent the last two years waiting for someone to save me from the bullshit I've had to endure, and some doctor to cure me. The ugly truth is, no one is coming and the cure, if ever, is a long way off. Since...

With all the hustle and bustle of the chronic illness life I find myself being asked more and more about relationships and loving someone with chronic illness. While I am not a spokesperson for the entire chronic illness population, I would like to offer you a love story that may offer you answers to your questions tucked neatly and nestled between its words. Loving someone with chronic illness is no different than loving someone who doesn't except loving a chronically ill human being takes a little bit of faith, trust, patience, compassion, empathy, ingenuity and pixy dust. I'm kidding, kind of. But seriously I have a chronic illness, ok several, but I'm also a millennial graduate educated small business owning women. Loving me is challenging. I come with my own set of allergies list, emergency doctor reference sheets, Infusion blackout dates, medication reminders, hospital bills, student loans, attitudes, good days and bad. You see now what I mean about it tak...