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Seven Things You Can Do To Help Manage Your Vertigo

By Johanna October 27, 2013 see reality 150 Comments

Have you seen Inside a Vertigo Attack? I never expected the kinds of comments I’m getting. I suspect there are not too many first-person accounts of what it’s like to…

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How Old Are You on the Inside?

By Johanna August 7, 2013 see reality 4 Comments

I was sitting on the wall, chatting with Eddie, a colleague, at the Gaylord mega hotel in  Nashville. I’m at the Agile 2013 conference. I recognized the female gardener as…

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Why Do Hotels Not Eat Their Own Dog Food?

By Johanna July 18, 2013 see reality 2 Comments

I travel a lot so I stay in many hotels. When I make a reservation, I ask for either a stall shower or a shower with a grab bar, or…

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What a Doctor Should Not Say to a Patient on a Friday Afternoon

By Johanna December 11, 2012 see reality 7 Comments

You’ve heard the old joke, “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news,” right? Well, that actually happened to me. Back in 2009, when I had my first vertigo…

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How’s Your Head?

By Johanna July 25, 2012 see reality No Comments

I saw my regular doctor recently, who is concerned about my quantity of vertigo meds. I’m on the max, to manage my oscillopsia. Even with all the meds, I’m just…

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End of One Illusion: No Safe Place

By Johanna May 8, 2012 see reality 3 Comments

One of the problems with vertigo is that there is no safe place for me, except for sitting down. I flew to and from Denver last week. I don’t mind…

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Self-Esteem Can’t Arise From Your External Beauty Either

By Johanna April 5, 2012 see reality 1 Comment

There’s a sad story making the rounds today. Samantha Brick wrote an article in the Daily Mail called ‘There are downsides to looking this pretty’: Why women hate me for…

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Using the Past to Create a New Future

By Johanna November 4, 2011 choices, see reality 2 Comments

At AYE this week, I led a session about adapting to change in your life. One of the participants was considering reminiscing about the way his life used to be.…

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Emotional Resilience: Just the Beginning

By Johanna October 11, 2011 see reality 2 Comments

Part of mental toughness is also having emotional resilience. It’s a different piece. Here’s how I like to explain it. Imagine you were a corporate travel agent back in the…

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Faith Tempered With Reality, Not Optimism

By Johanna June 21, 2011 life, see reality 3 Comments

You need to have faith that you can make it through whatever is going on in your life. But you can’t afford to be blindly optimistic. (My original title for…

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