It's OK to say NO: Building Healthy Boundaries w/ Jenni Prokopy

This presentation will focus on the challenges of building and maintaining healthy boundaries while living with chronic illness. taking the time to learn a few tricks can help you start saying NO to things that don't help you, and YES to nurturing activities and people. Jenni created ChronicBabe.com in 2005 to provide an online resource for young women with chronic illness who want to live exceptional lives in spite of health-related limitations. A ChronicBabe herself since the age of 25, she lives with fibromyalgia, asthma, anxiety, depression, Raynaud’s phenomenon, rosacea and GERD. Beyond her speaking activities, Jenni is an award-winning freelance writer with nearly 20 years of publishing experience. She knows what it takes to make any writing “zing!” Jenni offers freelance writing, editing and communications consulting for the health care industry, with a focus on web sites, newsletters, feature articles and marketing materials. Jenni’s work with organizations small and large, local and national, has earned her numerous awards. Most recently she was named a “Women’s Health Hero” in 2009 by Our Bodies, Ourselves.