• My Favorite Natural Makeup Products—The best mascara, blush, eyeliner, foundation, and lipstick I’ve found that is free of toxins and healthier for your skin.
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    My Favorite Natural Makeup Products

    I’m sharing some of my favorite natural makeup products that are free from many ingredients that can cause allergic reactions or health concerns. Plus, they’re my favorites because they look great and wear well!

    I’ll share resources for checking the safety of makeup products, and more about why I’m so passionate about makeup free of toxins, especially as someone with multiple chronic illnesses.

    It can be quite the time investment to find out which makeup is safest for your skin and health.

    I’m hoping this post will save you a lot of trial and error, and ultimately both time and money as you find healthier products.

  • My Experience Fundraising for Medical Expenses—Here’s how organizations like Help Hope Live can help people in financial need due to chronic illness or catastrophic injury. Fundraise for medical bills including doctors’ co-pays, prescription costs, home modification, in-home care, physical therapy, travel expenses and more. | cassiecreley.com
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    My Experience Fundraising for Medical Expenses

    Today I want to share about an organization that can help chronic illness patients fundraise for medical expenses. Chronic illness is expensive, and I am so thankful to have recently found out about Help Hope Live, which can help with co-pays, prescriptions costs, insurance premiums, and more.

    In this post, I’ll share about my experience fundraising with this organization, so you can see if it would be a good fit to help you or a loved one living with chronic health conditions or a serious injury.

  • How to Find Financial Assistance for Chronic Illness Expenses—Connect with organizations that can provide help with copays, prescription costs, insurance premiums, and other medical bills. | cassiecreley.com
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    How to Find Financial Assistance for Chronic Illness Expenses

    Did you know that patients with chronic illness can apply for grants to help with medical expenses? Me neither! I’m going to share about several organizations that provide medical grants and financial assistance.

    I can’t believe I’ve been seriously ill for over six years and am just now hearing something like this exists! I thought medical grants were something only doctors or researchers could apply for.

    These programs may be able to help with costs like copays, insurance premiums, prescription costs, and more.

  • Flexibility is Key—Creating with Chronic Illness: Thoughts on taking time to recuperate, redefining writing goals, and how to make time and energy for my creative pursuits like cardmaking and party planning.
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    Flexibility is Key—Creating with Chronic Illness

    Happy New Year friends! I’ve been thinking about the importance of flexibility with chronic illness, especially when it comes to taking care of my health and making time for my creative pursuits.

    January seems like the perfect month to share some updates, as well as what I’ve found helpful on my health journey recently. I hope these reflections are helpful for you too!  

    I’m thrilled to be participating in A Chronic Voice’s link up again this month. This link up is a way for chronically ill bloggers to connect by writing posts based on the same prompts. I love the creative challenge offered by the prompts and seeing what others write!

  • Thoughts On “Sun Guilt” And How To Enjoy The Outdoors With Chronic Illness: How can we take the pressure off and enjoy nature more despite chronic health conditions? Here are my tips for pacing and preparing so you can enjoy being outside more.
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    Thoughts On “Sun Guilt” And How To Enjoy The Outdoors With Chronic Illness

    Don’t worry, this isn’t a post pressuring you to go outside more or insisting you should get outside every day. With chronic illness and pain, sometimes this isn’t realistic. So let’s talk about ways to benefit from and enjoy being outdoors with chronic illness. For me, planning and pacing are key.

    In fact, I’m giving myself permission to be outside less or not go outside at all, even on days when the weather is ideal. I’m trying to balance benefitting from nature with listening to my body.

  • My Go To Natural Skin Care Products – My favorite soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions, lip balms, toothpaste, dry shampoo, and more. These are the products I use because they’re free of common toxins, which is essential due to my asthma, allergies, fibromyalgia and chemical sensitivity.
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    My Go To Natural Skin Care Products

    I’m so excited to share this list of my favorite natural skin care products with you! It’s taken me many years to find lotions, soaps, shampoos, etc. that don’t flare up my health conditions. I’m really passionate about this topic because I think everyone should have the tools and information to avoid toxins and make healthier decisions in their everyday life.

    I hope that all the products I’ve researched and tried will help you on your journey to better health.

    What we put on our bodies matters, especially for those of us with chronic illness. These are the skincare products that don’t aggravate my asthma, fibromyalgia, and other chronic conditions.

  • Why You Should Use Natural Skin Care Products Especially If You Have A Chronic Illness. An overview of resources for finding more information, what toxins could be affecting your health, chemicals to avoid, and where to find safer alternatives. | cassiecreley.com
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    Why To Use Natural Skin Care Products If You Have A Chronic Illness

    Why choose natural skin care products? I’m going to share a quick overview of some of the potential health impacts of chemicals that you’d think are safe—after all, they’re in everyday products like lotion, shampoo, deodorant, and soap. I hope this post is a useful resource for learning more about the ingredients in skin care products so you can choose healthier options, especially if you have a chronic illness.

    If you’re already dealing with chronic illness or health issues (like I am—more on that below) it’s even more important to address irritants and triggers that could be contributing to underlying conditions—or just making overall health worse.

    And even if you’re healthy, there are many reasons everyone should avoid harmful chemicals lurking in skin care products.

    Here’s a quick look at chemicals to avoid, where you can find more research about those chemicals, and resources for finding healthier alternatives.

  • The Helpful Chart My Doctor Recommended I Create: Prepare for a doctor's visit. Tips on putting information together for doctor’s appointments. Here’s how reviewing your supplements and medications and other health information can help you and your doctor work together on your treatment plan. Especially useful if you have multiple chronic illnesses or health conditions.
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    The Helpful Chart My Doctor Recommended I Create

    Do you ever discover a useful resource for your health that just makes you want to share it? That’s the way I felt when my doctor recommended I create this chart. This is a helpful way to prepare for a doctor’s visit. It led to a lot of light bulb moments as I considered the future direction of my treatment plan, especially when it comes to medication and supplements.

    This chart will help you streamline appointments by having more information at your fingertips, whether you’re meeting with your doctor in person or doing televisits. (I’ve actually found televisits practical because I use up less energy and can pull up documents about my health history on my computer…or ask my mom to run into the next room to check the dosage on my supplements, LOL! What do you guys think of them?)  

    I feel I’ve hit a dead end with my health and haven’t been seeing improvement (so I’ve been trying to focus on the little things I can do).

    That’s why I recently saw my naturopathic oncologist to get a new perspective. I hadn’t seen him in awhile—I had thyroid cancer three years ago and have other chronic health conditions including dysautonomia, fibromyalgia, an autoimmune disease, and asthma.