Essays Fibromyalgia Awareness Day: On Masking Pain Every time that pitch-time rolls around at Sweatpants & Coffee and I see a topic like this, I almost always want to write Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 11, 2023
Physical Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, or How I Finally Got Angry After a Decade of Pain Cover photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels This year marks a full decade since I first began experiencing symptoms of Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 12, 2022
Mental Depression Awareness and Education Month Hello. My name is Jess and I am depressed—like, treatment-resistant, major depressive disorder kind of depressed. I was first Jessi-James Grey Posted on October 26, 2020
Wellness Fibromyalgia Awareness Day Hi, I’m Troy McClure (Jess Grey). You may recognize me from such blockbusters as Invisible Disability and You Don’t Look Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 11, 2020
Wellness Coping in the Time of COVID-19 Hello, I’m Troy McClure (Jess Grey) and you may remember me from such hits as Invisible Disability, Living With Passive Jessi-James Grey Posted on April 20, 2020
Essays Sprouting Last spring, I attended an eight-week therapy group for chronically ill folks. In it, we developed a language around talking Jessi-James Grey Posted on February 25, 2020
Essays, Self Care How I’m Coming to Radically Accept My Life as a Young Adult with Fibromyalgia Note: I wrote this article for “The Mighty” back in spring 2016 when I was on leave from social work grad school. During that Emmie Arnold Posted on May 15, 2018
Essays, Life, Self Care 30 Things About Living with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) The questions and inspiration for this post originally came from Invisible Illness Week 2015. I’ve written a little bit about Emmie Arnold Posted on October 26, 2017
Life, Self Care Sweatpants & Self Care | 8 Tips to Help You Thrive While Living with Constant Fatigue May 12th is Fatigue Syndrome Day, here are 8 tips to help you thrive despite the pain and fatigue. Emmie Arnold Posted on May 11, 2017
Essays Personal Essay | Invisible Disability Jessica Grey talks about how anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, and other invisible disabilities affect your relationship Jessi-James Grey Posted on June 23, 2016