A common complaint from the CFS community is that we don’t often hear many recovery stories. To be honest, I’m not sure that I could’ve coped with listening to any bright-eyed, bushy-tailed people telling me how great life was when I was really sick. (After I did a recovery interview with one of my […read more]
Ok, it’s time to come clean. I’m a bit of a tea nut! At the last count I had 10 boxes of tea in the cupboard and no, I’m not joking. It’s all herbal and sometimes, you want to switch it up a little, so having a variety for me is key. As many […read more]
Some of the most visited posts on my site centre around yoga for CFS and chronic illness, but I’ve been wanting to really get to the bottom of the relationship between these two for a while. Does yoga help or hinder chronic illness? Should we be exploring moving our bodies when we’re so sick, […read more]
Like many of you, I’m a bit of a Pinterest gal. There’s just something about being inspired visually by so many beautiful things that really lights me up. A few weeks ago in my feed, someone posted a selection of photos all at once. To anyone without an invisible illness, they are just gorgeous photos, […read more]
I’ve been meaning to write with post for a while as I’ve been getting lots of emails lately about why I insist you should go to the doctor for a diagnosis, rather than just reading a list of CFS symptoms and presuming you’ve got it. I hear you. Who likes going to the doctor?! […read more]
As soon as I stepped through my front door this evening, I was guided to make this little audio for you. It had to be sent out this evening- it couldn’t wait. I’m not sure who is speaking during the audio clip, but it didn’t feel like me and I almost can’t remember recording […read more]
I was first introduced to the concept of affirmations after reading ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ by the wonderful and truly unstoppable, Louise Hay. If you haven’t come across her work before, I can’t recommend her work highly enough. She is proof that if you live from the heart, and away from fear, you become […read more]
So, to date, I’ve published 212 articles on the blog… I often give myself a hard time because it doesn’t feel as though I’m doing enough, but looking at this number shows me that if I’m enjoying what I’m doing, then something must be going well! To celebrate the magic 212 posts and counting, here […read more]
After a bit of a hectic ‘running around’ weekend, I drew this card from my tarot deck last night: Image taken from Littleshopoftarot.com I instinctively knew that, although this was meant for me (I had been avoiding meditating for a while even though I desperately needed it), it was also meant for you, but in […read more]
I’ve known for a while that I’d have to write a post about how to cope with a job and CFS. It’s quite a bittersweet topic for me, as I’ve definitely had my ups and downs and upsets around the world of work and in many ways, I let my job situation define me for […read more]
This is the big key (and mystery) of healing – how to accept your chronic illness and ourselves just as we are now- sick, ill and frankly, a little bit hopeless. In the darkest times, when you’ve lost count of how many days you’ve been staring at the ceiling for, waiting for doctors or even family […read more]
Yes, you. No, not that you- that one, there! There you are! Hello! Bless you, glowing and flickering like an excited little candle. You see, I’m sure you’ve probably forgotten all about you. I’m not talking about you ‘the mother’, you ‘the daughter’, you ‘the worker’, you ‘the ill person’ or you ‘the person […read more]
“How to Cope with CFS Relapse” – this have to be the number 1 topic I’m asked about by my mentoring clients and via email. Ooooh wow. Relapses, ey?! Don’t you just love ‘em. Just when you think you’re on the right track, you wake up one morning and you’re right back where you started…and you […read more]
