Summer heat! Unlike many people I love these 40 degree days. For some reason my body always functions better in the heat. I’d love to know why that is, but in the absence of any simple answers I’ll just take it as the gift it is. So this evening I’ve spent most of my time … [Read more...]
Hello world! – The Get Up And Go Guru Website Goes Live!
I've just migrated over from my free Wordpress blog. It's all very exciting, but I'm just working my way through the technical issues at the moment, so enjoy the blogs on living with CFS / ME and other chronic illness that I've already written and you'll hear from me very … [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...]
Alone, lonely, isolated? It Can Be When Living With CFS / ME & Other Spoonie Illnesses
Sometimes it really feels like we’re all alone in the world, doesn’t it? When managing a life with CFS / ME, illness and pain it can feel even more like we’re on our own. Facing the whole prospect of aloneness is something I’ve been dealing with a lot lately. I have a strong … [Read more...]
Trapped In My Body – CFS, Pregnancy & Electrosensitivity
There was nowhere to go. Nowhere I could go to escape myself, my illness, my pain. I was trapped like a dragonfly in amber. Inside my failure of a body I carried one of nature's miracles - the innocent cause of my body's latest breakdown. My baby daughter, unknowingly, innocently … [Read more...]