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Can You Really Homestead with Chronic Illness? Here’s Why I Do

Can You Really Homestead with Chronic Illness? Here’s Why I Do

by Leisa Watkins | Jun 29, 2026 | Backyard Homesteading

Every morning, I make a choice. Not about whether to check on the chickens or pull weeds or start another batch of bone broth — though those choices come too. The choice I make first is a quieter one. I choose to keep building a life that nourishes me, even when my...

About Cultivate an Exceptional Life

Cultivate an Exceptional Life is a chronic illness community for women who are done waiting for their hard season to be over before they start really living.

Here you'll find honest stories, practical tools, and hard-won wisdom for building a life you love — alongside your illness, not in spite of waiting for it to get better.

Because an exceptional life doesn't just happen. It has to be cultivated.

Meet Leisa Watkins

Leisa is a chronic illness writer and advocate living with MS, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, and CFS/ME, and a mom navigating her kids' chronic illness journeys alongside her own.

She writes from lived experience and years of research, sharing practical strategies and compassionate guidance for women building a full life alongside chronic illness.

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