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Look at Two Real Life Examples of How To Help Others

Do you know someone who looks healthy yet does not fully participate in life activities? Perhaps he or she suffers from an unseen disability. You have the desire to help and support the chronically ill. You are compassionate, but you are always busy. So, how can you? For Christmas one year, a friend of our […]

Geese Working Together — Excellent Example Helps Invisibly Disabled People

Geese? Teamwork? Say what? Yes, geese use teamwork to improve their quality of life. And that teamwork by the geese provides an example for observers to efficiently help chronically ill people. So we can see how geese teamwork helps invisibly disabled people. I first heard about the way geese cooperate decades ago. Our church’s bulletin […]

Friend, Can You Offer Me a Little Help?

This week we talk to compassionate Observers about assisting their Dweller friends. Helping chronically ill people, especially those who are invisibly disabled, can be rewarding and satisfying. You want to help. But do you need ideas? Are there principles unique to helping Dwellers? Okay. Have I ever been helped? Let me count the ways. Throughout […]

I Can Help, But How?

How can you help chronically ill friends? News flash: Thoughtful storm observers already spend time helping their dweller friends. Often these caring observers want to assist even more; they just don’t know how. Helping the invisibly disabled can be as simple as a phone call letting them know they are remembered or as involved as […]

Demonstrate Care to The Chronically Ill in Your Church

Do you attend church regularly? Are you more-or-less healthy? Or are you invisibly chronically ill? What do you think about chronic illness and church care? Depending on which, you may have differing views of the compassionate care your church displays. This post deals more with that care and compassion than with specific ideas for helping. […]

Are You REALLY There for Your Friend?

You care about your friend. You even call her sometimes. But does he know you REALLY care? Are you there to hold her hand, either metaphorically or physically, when she hurts? Does he know you understand that he has serious problems, even if you can’t understand or see the difficulties themselves? (Sometimes, we don’t even […]

Waffle House Communication

John presents thoughts about listening to others and why it’s important. Although not specifically about people with invisible disabilities, isn’t good listening what we all want? Don’t we wish others would carefully listen to us, as we need to carefully listen to others? John offers specific helps to facilitate better listening.John’s Thoughts on ListeningWaffle Houses […]

She Helped. He Helped. They Helped. Did You?

Everybody needs help at some point. Disabled persons obviously can’t function without some aid. Those with invisible disabilities, too, often benefit from assistance. Helping physically challenged friends enables them to more easily participate in life. It can encourage them in their storms.Who can help? Anyone!What’s required? Compassion!Our church held a Harvest Party, complete with costumes. At […]

How to help physically challenged persons? Show you care!

And how do you show you support physically challenged persons? Be there for your friend. “Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to fix anything or to do anything in particular but just to let us feel that we are cared for and supported.” Unknown In my life, the person most likely to […]

When a Friend Has a Chronic Illness: What to Say, How to Help

By Lisa Copen Out of ideas? Read on and see what Lisa has to say about how to help people with invisible disabilities and other physical challenges! When a friend hurts, we gather around her. When she has surgery, we line up outside her door with meals. We send flowers, cards, and gifts. We provide […]

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