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What's Your Can? Update 2019: 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Condition
Whether it’s been a month, a year, or decades, a chronic condition can alter your life physically, emotionally, and more. The idea that every action requires thought becomes overwhelming and giving up sounds like the only answer.
There are solutions! What’s Your Can? Is author Maribeth Slovasky’s story of her 40-year journey with a chronic condition. She takes you through the progression of her illness, sharing how her struggles nearly incited her yearning to resign herself to life with restrictions and constant concern regarding her wellbeing.
She didn’t quit. Even more so, a surreal experience in Tacoma, Washington, presented Maribeth with a choice; become who you want to be or live behind the black wall, alone, declining, and unhappy.
Follow Ms. Slovasky’s journey as she begins to heal socially, reviving her passion for writing. After meeting new friends and learning to trust again, she embarks on an expedition to become physically and emotionally healthier than she thought possible.
This book is designed for those readers who struggle with a chronic or long-lasting condition or illness and want to live the life they desire, without focusing on the gnawing disadvantage that a chronic condition can bring. Her 10 lessons are practical, fun, and thought-provoking ideas to give even the long term sufferer the belief they have been seeking.
Family, caregivers, and friends: this book will help you learn along with your loved one, sharing your thoughts and feelings and learning skills that are beneficial for everyone.
There are solutions! What’s Your Can? Is author Maribeth Slovasky’s story of her 40-year journey with a chronic condition. She takes you through the progression of her illness, sharing how her struggles nearly incited her yearning to resign herself to life with restrictions and constant concern regarding her wellbeing.
She didn’t quit. Even more so, a surreal experience in Tacoma, Washington, presented Maribeth with a choice; become who you want to be or live behind the black wall, alone, declining, and unhappy.
Follow Ms. Slovasky’s journey as she begins to heal socially, reviving her passion for writing. After meeting new friends and learning to trust again, she embarks on an expedition to become physically and emotionally healthier than she thought possible.
This book is designed for those readers who struggle with a chronic or long-lasting condition or illness and want to live the life they desire, without focusing on the gnawing disadvantage that a chronic condition can bring. Her 10 lessons are practical, fun, and thought-provoking ideas to give even the long term sufferer the belief they have been seeking.
Family, caregivers, and friends: this book will help you learn along with your loved one, sharing your thoughts and feelings and learning skills that are beneficial for everyone.
81 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 28, 2018
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About the author
Maribeth Slovasky
15 books1 followerMaribeth Slovasky was born and raised in the Midwest. She earned her B.S. in education at Youngstown State University and her MA in Education at The Ohio State University.
Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. She worked as the director of an educational tutoring facility which she purchased from her employer in 1998. She owned and operated the business with her husband, who designed and opened a second location. They decided to close the centers in 2009.
Ms. Slovasky began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.
She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her latest published work is Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her next release, yet to be titled, is about John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it. Look for John’s story in early 2024.
Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share!
Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. She worked as the director of an educational tutoring facility which she purchased from her employer in 1998. She owned and operated the business with her husband, who designed and opened a second location. They decided to close the centers in 2009.
Ms. Slovasky began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.
She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her latest published work is Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her next release, yet to be titled, is about John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it. Look for John’s story in early 2024.
Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share!
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May 27, 2019
You Can Live a Spectacular Life
Whether you have a chronic health condition or not, Maribeth gives you insights to move into happiness.
I found Maribeth's book so profound and useful. Highly encourage it for anyone wanting to better their life.
Whether you have a chronic health condition or not, Maribeth gives you insights to move into happiness.
I found Maribeth's book so profound and useful. Highly encourage it for anyone wanting to better their life.
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