This Virus Fucking Sucks
For single people who live alone with have no family nearby, and who struggle with a mood disorder, being physically isolated for long can be deadly (I'm referring to suicide). When people talk about weighing the risks of interacting with others against the risk of...
Letter to the Editor to the Chicago Tribune
Want to send a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune? If you're not subscribed, don't bother with the website because it throws up ads to subscribe so you can't read anything, even the email address where you'd send a letter to the editor. It took two phone...
McCombs Candida Plan: Day 15
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan: Day 7 It's been two weeks that I've been healing my candida albicans problem with Dr. Jeffrey McCombs' Candida Plan and it's going well. I'm still surprised to have had no sugar cravings. I've suffered a little...
Staying Home Gets Harder For Those Who Live Alone
On Thursday the city of Chicago issued an advisory that included not having guests in our homes and it really upset me as someone who lives alone. The general advice is to celebrate holidays with only those in your household. I don't have anyone else in my household,...
McCombs Candida Plan: Day 7
Previous post on this topic: What I Was Eating Before I started the McCombs Plan on Nov. 1, so for this month it'll be easy to remember what day I'm on. Today I didn't spend as much on groceries because I'm eating more eggs and ground beef as my animal proteins. How...
What I Was Eating Before
Previous post on my Candida journey: Going to Kick This F#$%-ing Sugar Problem Before I began the McCombs Plan on Sunday, my grocery shopping looked like this. 27 Sept: cauliflower, oranges, cheese, masala chai tea, bananas, canned tuna, almonds $20.54 4 Oct: eggs,...
Going to Kick This F#$%-ing Sugar Problem
I was complaining AGAIN about sugar cravings and fatness when one of my healers said it sounds like I have Candida. She suggested I look up someone named Dr. Jeffrey McCombs. Well, wouldn't you know it? That's who I saw back in 1994 when I had my first acute bout of...
Volunteer in a Critical Way from Home
Does the idea of donating blood make you squeamish? Do you never have any money to give to good causes? Do you want to volunteer but don't want to leave your home? Donate your voice. [I originally posted this in 2015, but it's worth re-posting now that many have too...
Trying Dispenza Again
About seven years ago I discovered Joe Dispenza. His books teach how to use the power of the mind through meditation to change yourself. I loved his writing, his meditations and his way of approaching life. I used his meditation for years and blogged about my...
Bring the Sunshine, I Guess
Since "Juldemort" (July 2020 was so horrific for me that's how I refer to it) I've noticed startling changes in myself. One is that I no longer prefer gray skies to bright ones. As this 2015 post expresses, I used to dislike and avoid sunny days, staying inside so the...
Living Well
Chicana on the Edge is 16 years old and every post is here, but the website is new as of June 2020, so I'm thinking carefully about the categories and tags I want to use. Of the ones that aren't neutral like "PhysicalHealth," I think there are more with negative...
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