Do you have days that don't go to plan because your emotions take over and lead you in another direction? Are there days slip away in a haze of feelings? Do you feel helpless to do anything about your emotions? We all have days where nothing goes to plan: We start working on something but get lost...
Fibromyalgia & Food. I must confess, that this is one blog I didn’t really want to write! Why? Because it’s something I’ve always battled with. I LOVE FOOD and when you love something you don’t generally want to give it up! But there is another side to the story that tells us that food -...
Anybody who lives with Fibromyalgia or any chronic illness, will tell you one of the most debilitating symptoms is living with pain. For some it is a constant in their daily lives; for others it comes and goes. Fibromyalgia increases the brains sensitivity to pain and causes inflammation of the...
Do you wish that your family and friends knew more about your chronic illness and how it affects your life? I do! The truth is, they see the results of chronic illness in my behaviour; through my interactions with them and the emotions that invariably come to the surface. What they see though,...
I am very thankful that life is so much more than what I expect it to be.The truth about my life though, is that I often limit it to what I think I can handle in any moment. My limitations include having a chronic illness which results in fatigue, pain and brain fog. All good reasons to slow...
Do you live with a chronic illness and struggle to set goals and – actually achieve them. Do you get nervous thinking about setting goals and moving forward? There can be numerous reasons for this, and it might be very different for you and someone else you know with the same chronic illness. ...
Just when you think you’ve started to work out how to live with this massive curve ball in your life called Fibromyalgia, something else comes along that you have to deal with. Its name is grief and it will more than likely have a broad affect across your life.I share this, not to...
One of the first things you think about when you’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, or any chronic illness, is how is this going to affect your life? Initially, it can feel like you have no choices at all. The pain and/or fatigue overtakes your life and you can’t do anything that...
One of the minefields you need to navigate when you are diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, or any chronic illness - is who needs to know? Who do I need to tell that I have Fibromyalgia? It may seem like a very minor thing to some of you as you read this but working out who you tell that...