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Reflections on the illness mindset and the power of our words Several times this week I heard people use the phrase ‘illness mindset’. I also had some coaching with a law of attraction coach, who pointed out to me how unhelpful it is to use the words ‘I can’t’. Now, at first, I was really … Read more
How to stop fighting when you have a chronic illness When we fight against chronic illness we waste huge amounts of energy, and yet it’s the most natural thing in the world to want to fight against adversity. The desire to take action to prevent our suffering is programmed into our DNA. In fact, it’s … Read more
This week I had a rather nasty crash, unusual in the severity of symptoms. For various reasons, which I’ll talk about in a minute, I didn’t immediately surrender, as I usually do. When I did, it made such a dramatic difference it made me want to stress the importance of surrender and share the story … Read more
It doesn’t have to be that way! When you have a chronic illness like ME/CFS there are many mornings when you wake up and just know that you’re not doing as well as your normal. Or sometimes your very important morning routine gets interrupted and you just know that it’s going to affect your carefully … Read more
What I wish I knew when I first got sick I am so saddened to hear of the number of people that are struggling with post viral symptoms as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a devastating experience not to recover in the way you always expect to recover from an illness. When I … Read more
The last few weeks I haven’t felt very motivated. I haven’t been feeling terrible or anything but I just haven’t felt like creating things. Before my move back to the UK, I had to save my energy for all that was involved in the transition, but I promised myself that I’d make a fresh start … Read more
This is a post I wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner and first appeared there about 2 months ago. With energy limiting chronic illnesses like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Lyme disease, a key to being as well as possible is to make sure you don’t use more energy that you readily have available to you. (This is sometimes referred … Read more
One frustrating thing about energy limiting chronic illnesses like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Lyme disease, is that energy levels can fluctuate from one day to the next. Christine Miserandino’s Spoon Theory has helped many people understand the concept of rationing out your energy by relating an energy unit to a spoon, but what happens on those … Read more
No matter how good you get at illness management, ME/CFS has a special way of hiding your true energy levels from you and tricking you into doing too much. This happened to me a few weeks ago. I’m now just about out from the other side of the crash and back to reasonable level of … Read more
I’ve been writing a series of blog posts about the easy ways we can all contribute to making the world a better place. It doesn’t have to be hard even when you have limited energy and it’s great to recognise what a valuable role we can play! Taking care of the environment was a passion … Read more
