When you live with chronic illness, the hardest battles aren’t always physical — they’re the ones you fight to be believed and understood. For years, I bent over backwards trying to explain the pain, the fatigue, the flares that made no sense to anyone but me. I thought if I could just find the right words, people would finally get it. But they didn’t. And somewhere in the heartbreak of that realization, I discovered something even more powerful: I don’t need to be understood

What does a Lyme flare really feel like? This raw, honest blog explains the physical, emotional, and invisible impact of chronic illness flares—so you don’t have to. A must-read for anyone trying to understand Lyme, POTS, or chronic pain.

I asked people across the Lyme community one question: “What’s something you wish people without Lyme understood?” The answers were raw, real, and long overdue.