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FREE 2-week mini-course empowering you to choose to stop, when it’s the best thing for your wellbeing Stopping when you need to means actually being able to do more, enjoy more and contribute more, but we can be so deeply programmed to push through, it can be difficult to do what we know is wise. … 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
In my first post last year, I wrote about my intention setting process and how much kinder it is when you have a chronic illness than my old approach of resolutions and goals. This year I thought I’d share in more detail a powerful process I’ve learned, that helps me focus on the most powerful … Read more
This article was originally written for ProHealth and first appeared on their website in November 2021. Many people find winter a dark and miserable time, a time where motivation wanes and it seems harder to attack life in the same way, harder to enjoy. Sometimes, we can also feel a hard to pinpoint sadness, perhaps … Read more
This is the original version of a post I wrote especially for the ProHealth website and first appeared there on 12/09/21. When you have a chronic illness like ME/CFS, long COVID, Fibromyalgia or Lyme disease, resting becomes a very big part of your life. Before I got ill, I didn’t even understand the word rest. … Read more
Since my baseline took a nosedive following the Covid vaccinations, I’ve had to tighten up on my daily routine, to keep my energy more safely within my smaller energy envelope. My afternoon rest has become an even more crucial part of that. Even when I was relatively well, my afternoon rest was pretty non-negotiable, but … Read more
How to prioritise when you don’t have much energy for self-help This is an edited post I originally wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner and first appeared there in June 2018. The fact that there are more than 101 ways to tackle energy limiting chronic illness has its upside and its downside. On the one hand there is … Read more
When you have an illness like ME/CFS, that affects your nervous system, it can be really difficult to switch off the stress response, even after the stress has passed. Sometimes the stress isn’t even what others would recognise as stress, it can simply be a case of the demands of life outweighing your resources, in … Read more
Recently I downloaded a free tracking app to measure my walks (map my walks). Unfortunately, because of my poor health last year, I’d gotten to a point that I was very easily crashing when choosing just a slightly longer walk, for my daily gentle exercise. I decided that if I did all 3 of my … Read more
