What a Body Can Do (a free post!)

Even when it thinks it can't

I do not need to explain myself to you, but still, I will. I’m in the fifth week of a terrible flare of a chronic issue I deal with and to a greater degree than ever before. Most times I keep it at bay, lull it to sleep, or at least my own awareness of it to sleep—it’s always lurking, waiting to turn my insides out—but this summer, I awakened it by simp…