When you are managing pain and illness in your life there often seems to be constant withdrawals from your reserves of spirit. I often use the analogy of a bucket of water. Dealing with pain and illness depletes the level in my bucket, so I’m always looking for things that fill … [Read more...]
Declutter Your House, Declutter Your Mind – It Helps Manage CFS & Pain
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...]
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...]