Wait, Why Chronic Sex?

Since this site is focused not only on sex, why is it named Chronic Sex?

It is our belief that the way we relate to ourselves – self-esteem, self-compassion, self-love, and self-care – is a direct result of our illnesses. We treat ourselves negatively when we have flare-ups, neglecting self-care and self-love, trading it for self-degradation.

How we treat ourselves has a huge impact on our relationships, our sexuality, and our sex lives.

In order to improve our Quality of Life, we have to start improving how we relate to and see ourselves.

Countless apps and companies focus on adherence to medications or treatments, but few focus on self-care or self-love. Self Care Catalysts is a company that focuses on both and is looking to start a self-care movement – which we’re totally stoked about!

To take that further, though, there are few websites that focus on these issues with chronic illnesses.

Self-care is even more important for us… I write as I sit at home after debating for half an hour if my fibro pain was bad enough to stay home.

I’d be lying if I said part of starting CS wasn’t to help myself, too.

As far as why our movement is called Chronic Sex? Because it sounds sexy!

 

 

Welcome to Chronic Sex!

I recently started blogging about sex and relationships over at CreakyJoints. You can follow the links below to get to the posts over there.

You should also check out Cara’s podcast, In Sickness + In Health. The episode where we sat down to talk #chronicsex is here. Jessica Gimeno and I also recently discussed 5 Tips for Dating with Chronic Illness.

Posts on here about sex and relationships can be found here:

Here are also some products and stores that I enjoy or can recommend:

You can find more information on the resources page.
Below you can keep in touch with the #chronicsex hashtag, which you can use to ask me questions, discuss issues, and more!

Chronic Sex is also about Self-Love and Self-Care. Here are some basics to get you started:

I would recommend these two pages first, as they’re great for beginners:

Once you have the basics down, move on to these: