“No, I don't want vanilla. I want chocolate!” the toddler yells. His father calmly responds: “I told you. There's no chocolate, only vanilla. So it's vanilla or nothing.” “But I WANT chocolate!!!”, the toddler screams. “There IS no chocolate. There is only vanilla. If … [Read more...]
Cheers to the Earth Angels in Our CFS Lives
Isn't it lovely when someone unexpectedly helps you out? Today my Mum was in town and spent the morning cleaning and tidying my house that had got out of hand while I've been wrestling my little stomach parasites to the ground and evicting them from my body (see previous post … [Read more...]
Change The Context, Change The Experience of CFS & Pain
One of the major things I do to manage pain is restructure the context around how I view pain and its constraints. In 2006 I did some training and development courses at Landmark Education, a worldwide organisation that runs particularly good programs. At that point in my life I … [Read more...]