About: Kayla Kurin

Kayla Kurin

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Finding Meaningful Work With A Chronic Illness

Finding Meaningful Work With A Chronic Illness
Having a chronic illness can feel like having a full time job. You're always stressed and exhausted, you have appointments to rush around to, and you always feel busy. Yet, one of the most stressful parts of chronic illness can be what you do to earn a living. Balancing self care, health, family, and friends…
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5 Reasons Why I do Yoga When I’m Well

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on the Pillow Fort blog about Why I Do Yoga For Chronic Illness. If you've read any of my other blog posts, you know that I think yoga for chronic illness is a pretty awesome idea for unlocking your potential and living better with illness. But what about…
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My 5 Favourite Restorative Yoga Poses

My students often ask me how often I practice yoga. When I say I aim for 5-6 days a week I often see a look of fear on their faces. Do you really need to dedicate time each day to see the benefits of a yoga practice? To answer that questions depends on how you…
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Yoga for Chronic Illness: A Review From The Pillow Fort

It feels OM so good living your dreams :). My first yoga course finished up last month (for anyone that missed my reflections you can read about it here). The course was something I was planning for a long time, and seeing my spoonie students progress and enjoy the practice made the gruelling days of…
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Improve Your Health With Green Spaces

Improve Your Health With Green Spaces
What could make you happier than winning £500,000 in the lottery? Living near a park, it turns out. Spring is here and for those of us without pollen allergies the air is filled with fresh smells and our eyes are enchanted by the beautiful flowers and plants growing all around us. Living in London, a…
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The Highly Sensitive Person – Book Review

The Highly Sensitive Person – Book Review
The Highly Sensitive Person Book Review I was first introduced to the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) by Elaine Aron in 2009 when I was a patient at the environmental health clinic. I was, at first, skeptical when my doctor suggested that I read it. I had never thought of myself as a particularly sensitive person,…
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One Month of Mindfulness: You’re Hardier than you Think

One Month of Mindfulness: You’re Hardier than you Think
This post is about my mindfulness challenge results. My mindfulness challenge was quite simple: do three things mindfully every day. I began imagining myself sitting zen-like on top of a rocky mountain, reaching enlightenment and spreading my healing wisdom to my fellow chronically ill bloggers. It was then that I realized; there aren’t really any…
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How to Trick Your Dinner Guests into Eating Gluten Free

How to Trick Your Dinner Guests into Eating Gluten Free
I hate dinner parties, and eating gluten-free makes it even harder. This may come as a shock to some of you because I do love eating, and I do like socializing, but I have so many weird dietary restrictions that I usually end up getting a lot of weird looks and coming home hungry, or…
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