Angela Lundberg

"Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep." -Aeschylus, Agamemnon My sleep hygiene is appalling. It's erratic and unhealthy and...

In August 2019, before Covid-19 exploded and the world was overtaken by a deadly pandemic, I lost my rheumatologist. It was a devastating blow when he first told me the...

I am definitely an extrovert, but that doesn't mean that I don't need and enjoy alone time and "me-time." Living with chronic pain and RA is exhausting, which anyone who...

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it...

Tomorrow afternoon, I have a Zoom meeting scheduled with the Associate Director of Recruitment and Admissions at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. I'm excited to meet and...

"I was reminded that having extra needs does not make you too difficult, too time-consuming, but worthy of compassion and love." -Chanel Miller I found this quote I had saved...

"Grief and hope can coexist." -Rebecca Solnit I recently saw a meme posted on social media that caught my eye and attention. I quickly took a screenshot of it and...

"Travel brings power and love back into your life." -Rumi Hallo aus Köln, Deutschland! (Hello from Cologne, Germany) I'm writing this from my friends' house in Cologne, Germany, where I've...

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” -Khalil Gibran July 11, 2022 marked the 25th anniversary of my diagnosis with rheumatoid...

I just read an interesting and very relatable article in The New York Times: "Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot 'Medical Gaslighting' and What to Do About It." In the article...

"You're a chronic clencher," the massage therapist said to me while pressing her fingers into my tender jaw muscles. Wincing from the pain, I agreed, "Yes, I am." Even though...

My next acupuncture appointment is coming up soon and I'm looking forward to it, as always. It feels great to get back into having acupuncture regularly again after quite a...

"I dream of never being called resilient again in my life. I'm exhausted by strength. I want support. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin...

"Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list." --Patti Digh I came across this quote by author and speaker Patti Digh on a Facebook page I...

My fingers on both hands have begun to swell, throb, and ache again, and I can feel them stiffening into a curled, locked position as I type this article. Each...

Right now, I'm wearing my N95 Kimberly-Clark mask (that resembles a giant duckbill a little too closely) as I'm substitute teaching a high school social studies class. I can see...

"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible." --Paulo Coelho It's 12:30...

"We live in a culture that only wants to talk about what's going well. Anything that's not going well is positioned as a detour from the main road. The truth...

"You told me once I have a rebel heart...I don't know if that's true" -First Aid Kit As I've written in a previous article, I've always felt a deep connection...

There is a lot of speculation and contradictory theories that exist about if, how, or why diet can affect RA and inflammation. Many people seemingly try to push the latest...