Claire Dalton’s Lyme Hack:

“Hi, I’m Claire from the Chronically Beautiful Life Blog (check out my podcast interview). I have had Lyme disease since I was 18, knowingly, and I am @Chronicly_Claire on Instagram. I’m so excited to be here with y’all and Tick Boot Camp to be able to share a Lyme disease hack with y’all. So, I’m a Christian and so my Lyme disease hack is a little more on the spiritual side of things because let’s be honest here, Lyme disease affects every aspect of your being. So your physical being, your mental being, your spiritual being, it affects all of it. And so my hack for you today is to create a spiritual practice for yourself and do it every day. So I want to tell you a little story about myself when I first got sick when I was 18. I’ve always been a Christian, but I didn’t have much of a spiritual practice for myself. And I was reading the Bible one day and I came to the story about the woman who had the issue of blood. And she had it for years and years and years. And she went to all kinds of doctors, but they couldn’t help her. They didn’t heal her. And she knew that if she could just touch Jesus’s clothes, that she would be healed. And that was the kind of faith that she had. And I read the story and I thought to myself, I am heard, like, these are the things that I struggle with in my health, and I am this woman. And I read on in the story and she touched his clothes, and she was healed. And he said to her “daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole.” And I thought to myself, I want my faith to make me whole. That’s what I want. That’s what I want to see happen. And so for me, if I can just metaphorically touch the Savior’s clothes every day. I know that I am one step closer to healing from Lyme disease. And I know that He is healing me a little bit every day. And so for me, my spiritual practice looks like praying daily, multiple times. It looks like getting into the scriptures and really studying and listening to the words and letting them impact my life. It looks like serving my neighbor or showing kindness to a stranger. And I know that as I do the spiritual practice every single day, it has really helped aid in my Lyme journey and I know it will help in yours too. So that’s my hack for you guys. I love y’all. My DMs are always open, you can contact me on @Chronicly_Claire Instagram page. Love y’all and happy Lyme Disease Awareness Month.”