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...]
Dealing With Set-Backs
Whether it’s in your professional or personal life, set-backs can knock us Fibro Fighters for a spin and result in worsening health issues. I’ve been neck-deep in dealing with arranging care for a terminally ill family member and caring for an elderly parent with COPD who almost succumbed to an intense bout of pneumonia last year. My family is very close, so trying to help my loved ones who are suffering … [Read more...]
Grateful for Fibromyalgia?
A few years ago if I read the title “Grateful For Fibromyalgia” I would have wanted to slap the author. Forcefully. But hear me out for a few minutes, and try not to think murderous thoughts towards me, ok? One of the lessons I learned from managing a chronic condition is that mindset and mood greatly affect the amount of pain and discomfort we feel. This is true for everyone, even non-fibro … [Read more...]
Summer Fun With Fibromyalgia
As I’m sure you know, planning outings with fibromyalgia requires just that—planning. One of the things that took me awhile to grasp was that once I realized I had fibro, I could no longer operate on a whim, spur of the moment, seat-of-my-pants, as I had previously done. I had a lot of resentment and resistance to this idea, which of course, worsened my symptoms.The good news is, although you may need to … [Read more...]
How Resistance Mindset Affects Fibromyalgia
No one skips happily home the day they find out they have fibromyalgia, or any other ailment. It’s human nature to want to feel vibrant, happy and well and to resist illness. But resistance is not your friend and here’s why. There’s a saying, “What you resist, persists” and that is certainly true when we fret over our physical state. The worrying amps up our stress level and sets our adrenals pumping … [Read more...]
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