Fabulous with Fibro

Health Coaching for Professional Women

Negative Self-Talk Making You Sick?

  Why did you eat that dessert? You are such a pig! You know sugar is bad for you and you ate it anyway. Wow, you really must be stupid! How can you go to that party? You are so fat and gross!   Would you say any of the above to a beloved friend? Most of us would not even say those words to someone we don’t particularly like, much less someone we love. But we do something much worse—we think … [Read more...]

Self-Sabotage: When Sickness Is A Choice

    I know lots of us have life-altering and chronic health issues we are battling, and we may feel like there’s nothing we can do about that. I’m here to tell you, regardless of what is ailing you, you CAN still make a choice toward health. If you are in a program to improve your health and constantly “falling off the wagon” or just failing to do what you have said you want to do, there is … [Read more...]

Spoiled for Choice? De-Clutter!

If you are struggling with fibromyalgia, or just battling chronic painful and annoying symptoms day after day, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with too many choices. Everyone likes to have choices, to a degree. But too many can lead to overwhelm and then “analysis paralysis.” Have you ever just been so inundated with choices that you wanted to retreat back to your comfy bed and burrow under the covers for a … [Read more...]

Healthy, Happy Holidays: 5 Top Tips

  OK Thanksgiving is over and we have now plunged into the part of the year that I call the Holiday Slide. This is when time seems to speed up, you suddenly have 20 extra things on your plate per day and before you realize, it’s a new year and we are all wondering where the heck the old one went.  Some of us, especially Fibro Fighting gals, may struggle to stay afloat during the holiday frenzy. Good … [Read more...]

Avoid The Temptation of Isolation

  If you are struggling with your health, isolation is not your friend. Whether you are a fellow Fibro Fighter, or just battling low energy, chronic pain, weight and hormonal fluctuations, or are just fed up with feeling so sick and tired, often there is a tendency to want to pull back and disappear from life. You may avoid meeting up with friends and family, opt out of business events, stop … [Read more...]