Taking Care with Your Attention: Making the World a Better Place 4

This is the 4th in a series of posts, expanding on how easy it can be to contribute to making the world a better place even if you have a chronic illness. Tip 1 focused on how it’s as simple as having an intention and then being extremely permissive about following it. Tip 2 was about … Read more

Choosing to Prioritise Life

For a long time, I’ve seen it as necessary to prioritise my self-help and self-care over having a life. Mainly because without taking good care of myself, I know I’m going to be too unwell to have a life anyway! However, I’ve also realised how easy it is to get caught up in the worry … Read more

All it Takes is Intention and Extreme Permissiveness

This is a post I wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner for the New Year, however it’s really about an everyday approach to life. Since a viral setback in early December I’ve been taking a new approach to life, or rather I’ve been able to get back on track with a very successful old approach. Being so unwell for … Read more

The Alternative Spoonie Gift Guide

Personally, I don’t particularly like receiving gifts. Partly because I move between two bases. Carrying things and storing things is always a problem, so I really prefer to have as few things as possible to worry about. I’m also very concerned about the environment, and the energy, water consumption and pollution involved in modern manufacturing … Read more

Self-Compassion: A Fundamental for Healing that We Just Don’t Practise Enough

Last week in a Facebook live broadcast I share why I believe self-compassion is an absolute fundamental that we just won’t heal without! But in case you’d rather read things than watch or you’d just like a written reminder, here’s why it s important! The bottom line is that in order for our bodies to … Read more

Cultivating Trust to Make your Now Better

This is a post I wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner and first appeared there a little over a month ago Because of the unpredictability of chronic illnesses like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Lyme Disease, it’s easy to find ourselves getting anxious about the kinds of things that can bring on a crash or a flare. I became somewhat of a … Read more