Living

One of the most difficult side effects of living with narcolepsy is the inability to stay up late. People don’t wake up early to party, they stay up late. So...

Being a mom with toddlers is an adventure. Being a mom with toddlers and narcolepsy is straight up bonkers. If you have been following along with my Mom Life and...

It’s important to stay vigilant when assessing an accommodations request. Are the accommodations providing support and opportunities for success? Is the employer honoring the requests while maintaining confidentiality? Accommodations require...

Nightmares, as anyone knows, can be pretty scary. Luckily, they tend to occur mostly in childhood and only happen on rare occasions in adulthood. However, nightmares are one of the...

If you find yourself struggling to get things done around the house, here are some things I do to help myself so I do not feel overwhelmed. Start with making...

I’m pretty sure we all have those strange family stories that get passed down from generation to generation, but I often entertained people with the stories of my grandfather. My...

I have recently connected with some amazing people through different narcolepsy organizations. There are several social media groups on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that I have found. There is one...

Ever have a day or month or even a year where you are so tired it seems impossible to eat healthy? Yeah, me too. Then when you go to eat, you...

During this pandemic, I have learned the importance of positive thinking. When you think positively, positive things happen in your life; however, whenever thinking of narcolepsy, the first thing that...

Such a simple question that we all ask our loved ones regularly. "How did you sleep?" Each morning when my partner wakes up, we will always ask each other this...

How to approach my employer was one of the hardest decisions I faced after my diagnosis. Accommodations are required to meet the demands of my job descriptions. This is an...

It’s hard knowing you used to be healthy, and now you’re not. It’s hard to look at pictures of yourself from a few months ago and feel like a totally...

I had always been the sleepy kid. My mom would tell the story about how my first night home from the hospital; I slept for 8 hours. Anyone who has...

The frankincense tree has been on the planet for a really long time. One of its most notable acknowledgments is that the Wise Men brought it as a gift to...

Looking back on the last 10 years of my life, there were definitely some red flags that should have led me to seek help for my sleepiness. My friends and...

Every day I wake up in the middle of the night thanks to good old narcolepsy. Usually, I flip over to take my medicine to go right back to sleep...

Let’s talk about sex, baby Let’s talk about you and me Let’s talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be In 1990, the duo Salt-N-Pepa...

Narcolepsy hit us like a bus. One day I was healthy, then one day, I was not. Over the course of a year, my husband, Jeremy, watched me go from an...

My name is Gabrielle, I am a full-time music teacher living in Kentucky. I have been diagnosed with narcolepsy since 2018 and I want to educate people about what it...

Narcolepsy is exhausting. Pregnancy is exhausting. Put them together and a level of exhaustion that is almost paralyzing becomes a reality. My first 3 pregnancies, I did NOT have narcolepsy...