Module II: REassesing your current illness. if youve suffered from chronic illness and are not sure how to cope or improve your lifestyle, this course section will inspire you to find the right tools for you. Come join The Chronic Conversation for free on Instagram or join our three week course on MyLearnWorlds!

1. Reassessing your
Current lifestyle
how to make small
changes for a big
impact

2. A daughter, sister, auntie, friend
A musician
A public speaker
A self-published author
My name is Ali
and I am
Chronically ill
but I'm also...

3. Q1: who do you identify as?
list 3 or more 'personal
identifiers'

4. It took me almost 5
years to figure out
what I will teach you
in a few weeks.

5. Honesty goes a
long way.
To be successful in these exercises you must be
truthful in what you say and how you act. Sharing
your truth and honest opinions about different
matters can help bring clarity to any situation but
especially confusing new situations like this one.
Make sure to check in with yourself when
answering assessments and journaling. It may
even help to keep private notes or a journal of
your thoughts so that we can revisit some of
those thoughts during our 1-on-1.

6. In this section we are reassessing your current
lifestyle and making sure that all of your needs
can be met without depleting your energy and
resources. Change can be intimidating but is so
necessary for *CI folks that odds are you've
already tried making changes, big or small, and
are in need of guidance.
Changing
Course
**CI = CHRONICALLY ILL

7. Q2: What large or small changes have
you already made and how has it
worked for you?

8. Some of you may be struggling to come to terms with the major life
changes that can come along with CI and that is completely normal.
working harder than my peers
academic success
perception that i can 'do it all'
going on expensive vacations
quality time with quality friends
my time & energy
inner peace
career creativity
things that used to hold value for me
Things I value now

9. Q3: Have your
priorities changed
since CI? What are
your top 3?
**CI = CHRONICALLY ILL

10. How you want your life to function is
a key questions you should be asking
when reassessing something as
important as your chosen career or
profession. What is it that you want
to achieve with your time? for a lot of
people the answer is "money". For
others, its an intangible feeling or
goal. Whatever it is that drives you
(maybe you're getting it in your
current position) is important to focus
on, especially on the harder days.
Career Creativity

11. Q4: what do you work
for/ want to achieve
with your time?

12. It won't always be
smooth sailing.
There is no one perfect way to life your life. This
modules goal is to teach you the tools you will need
to identify the pieces that no longer serve you, set
proper boundaries with them, and create your own
best life. This can be a grueling and emotionally
and/or physically intense process. Self betterment
doesnt come cheap but it also shouldnt come at the
cost of your health. for us people with CI, we cant. It
can be all consuming sometimes but just beacuse
your illness sits in the front seat doesnt mean you
arent still driving the car. That's why the three keys
im about to show you are so important to
maintaining a healthy lifestyle of self betterment.

13. Q5: what does the phrase " living your
best life" bring to mind for you?

14. Work
We've discussed how work plays a role in our health mindset,
now lets meet the other two keys.

15. Play
Work
We've discussed how work plays a role in our health mindset,
now lets meet the other two keys.
How we blow off steam and experience joy are key to living
a full life, with or without CI

16. Love
Play
Work
We've discussed how work plays a role in our health mindset,
now lets meet the other two keys.
How we blow off steam and experience joy are key to living
a full life, with or without CI
Love and relationships are the cornerstone to any happy and
healthy lilfe, whether you have an abundance or a precious few

17. Play
what is play?
why is it important?
how does play affect my life overall?
Q6:what first comes to mind when you hear the word
'play'?

18. Q7: what will you do for play
today?

19. The first two
Keys
Work
It can be very overwhelming to make
changes to our jobs and the work that
we do or used to do. This course is all
about making the most positive life
changes possible to help ease the
burden of CI.

20. Q8: Do you feel
your current
position works for
you? why or why
not

21. The first two
Keys
Work
Play
It can be very overwhelming to make
changes to our jobs and the work that
we do or used to do. This course is all
about making the most positive life
changes possible to help ease the
burden of CI.
learning a bit about positive psychology
and the benefits of play was a huge turning
point for me, and i hope it will be equally as
impactful for you. The peace it brings you
and the joy cannot be substituted for
anything else so make sure you are making
time for play.

22. Q9: How will you be
making time for
play a regular
thing?

23. LOVE

24. Love
There are so many different
types of love that this one is
typically the easiest to identify
for ourselves. We will delve
deeper into love in our one on
one chats and the group
discussion but I'll leave you with
these questions to prepare you
for the discussion.
*Q's on next slide

25. LOVE Q's
Q10.) List
3 things you love
2 people you love
1 person who loves you
Q12.)Do you love/are you
loved unconditionally?
must answer for discussion
Q11.) what is
unconditional love?

26. all of these keys are ways of keeping ourselves connected and present in our
lives. in the last section we discussed the stages of grief and how normal it is to
have re-runs of the experience but as we've learned, connection is the opposite of
depression and addiction to bad habits or ways of thinking. the list for some is
easy, for me at the place i was in my life it took a while to come up with a list of
five connections that i felt truly supported me and nourished my spirit. If you can,
go ahead and try making your list. we will go over this during the group discussion
if you want to wait for more instruction/inspiration. lets discuss the ways
Five Points of
Connection
that we can connect and keep ourselves balanced even in the toughest
times. slides.

27. before the group discussion
make sure that you've written
down your responses to the
questions(Q's) in the previous
slides
there are 12 Qs, some are multi-part answers so
make sure you read and respond thoroughly!