I love music for so many reasons and it has been my constant companion in my CFS/electrosensitivity journey. Sometimes it lifts me up, sometimes it taps into a particular emotion I find hard to articulate, sometimes it makes me want to dance and sing, sometimes it makes me feel … [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...]
My Top 5 Pain Management Strategies … and a Bonus One!
There is so much information on the net about how to manage pain, but I can really only speak from my own experience with any authority. In time, I plan to examine the current psychological literature and do an easily-digestible review of this, but for now I thought I would talk … [Read more...]
Nurture Yourself Through Illness & Pain
Be gentle with yourself. Chronic illness and pain wears you out mentally, physically and spiritually. Nurture yourself through the pain, fatigue, nausea, loneliness and sadness. The ongoing constant nature of a chronic condition takes its toll on even the most positive and … [Read more...]
Fill Your Bucket to Help Combat CFS / ME
What fills your bucket? What brings you joy? What enlivens and nourishes your spirit? CFS has a nasty habit of draining our bucket, our spirit, our joie de vivre. But we can fight back. We can seek and identify the things in life that fill our bucket, and in doing so we … [Read more...]