Lauren Golightly
✨27 | Dog Lover 🐶
✨Always real about the good and bad times 💜
✨Hopefully showing that all bodies are worthy🫶
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How To Create A More Friendly Workplace For Someone With Crohn’s Disease
How do you combine working full or part-time, having career goals, and trying to climb the ladder while also having an illness that cannot be seen but has a huge impact on your day-to-day functioning? Welcome to being an ambitious person living with Crohn’s Disease! This question literally plagues my life, and honestly, if anyone…
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It’s Okay To Grieve For All Of The Things Your Illness Has Taken Away From You
When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease five years ago, I assumed that one of the hardest things to deal with would be the symptoms of the illness; the diarrhea, the constipation, bloating, fatigue, the blinding pain, and that’s not even all of them! You are probably thinking “surely that is that hardest thing to…
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Finding Strength In Being Vulnerable – How Opening Up About Crohn’s Changed My Life
Hi! My name is Lauren, I’m 27 years old and I have Crohn’s disease, which is a life-long condition with currently no cure. I was diagnosed in 2018 after being misdiagnosed with IBS for three years. What followed has been five years of hospital admissions, medications, pain, and uncertainty. But there have also been some…