To continue our foodie series (read the first post here), I’m absolutely over the moon to introduce beautiful Rachel from Niyama Naturopathic to you today. Visiting Rachel’s blog makes you feel immediately calm and centred, which is often quite rare to find on the internet these days. Her recipes are oozing with nutrition and […read more]
5 Ways To Feel Better When You’re Too Sick To Move
This article was reblogged for my article featured on health and wellbeing website, MindBodyGreen. Illness affects most of us at one point or another, whether it’s from an allergy a cold, or having to stay in bed for months — if not years — on end. I was in the latter category, having being diagnosed […read more]
Shift Your Mindset to Help You Heal
After receiving several emails this week asking me about the ‘turning point’ in my healing, I decided to make this little audio blog for you. As you know, I firmly believe that going through the healing process will make you a stronger person, but to be honest, I would’ve given anything for a quick […read more]
The Reason I Decided To Change My Facebook Name
Oh boy, here it comes. Raw, unadulterated, savage honest- something I’m definitely not used to being… If you’ve ever visited my Facebook page, you’ll notice that my official username has always been ‘Conquering Fear Spiritually – CFS’. At the beginning, I thought that this was a clunky, slightly inelegant explanation as to why I’d […read more]
The worst things you can say to someone with CFS
Photograph taken from here I have to admit that when I was first diagnosed with CFS, everything that everyone said to me to help just made me feeling overwhelming down and even more disappointed in myself than I’d ever been before. Here are a list of the things that hurt the most: * “Yes, I’m […read more]
Pain and Ego in CFS
It’s all too easy to think that because we’ve been ill for a while that we know pain and suffering more than the ‘average’ person. We have to remember not to feed our pain to our egos. People go through terrible things every day and none of them necessarily involve chronic illness. Photo by […read more]
6 Ways to Relieve Muscle Pain in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Whenever I hear people on Facebook and websites talk about the pain and muscular discomfort they’re feeling, my heart really, really goes out to them. The muscular pains were a constant reminder of my illness from the second I woke up to the moment I went to bed. I always used to wake up […read more]
My Struggles with Comparison and Forgetting Who I Am
This is a very personal post, but one I feel that needs to be written. This is probably one of the most honest posts I’ve written for a while, so I really appreciate it if you’re here and are reading these words- thank you. Over the last few weeks, I’ve mentioned a few times […read more]
15 Life Lessons I Would Tell My 14-Year-Old Self
In true Oprah Super Soul Sunday style, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about change and how far away I am from the vision of my life that I had planned for myself when I was 14. To be honest, I didn’t really know what I’d be doing, but I thank the heavens and […read more]
Eckhart Tolle’s Thoughts on Chronic Illness
I read Eckhart Tolle‘s ‘The Power Of Now’ about 3 years ago. His next book, ‘A New Earth’, has sat next to it on the shelf for the last 3 years, but I only felt the need to pick it up and finally read it this week. Little did I know there was so […read more]
Energetic Healing and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Speaking about Energetic Healing and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is something which I am really, really passionate about. I love reading about it and researching it. It all started with Caroline Myss’ book, ‘Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing’, in which Caroline, a Medical Intuitive and Healing expert, talks about chakras, […read more]
Chronic Fatigue Treatments I’ve Tried – Medical and Alternative
I thought it was about time I put a little post together for you of all the Chronic Fatigue treatments I tried during my time with CFS, which has proved to be one of my greatest teachers and still is to this day. You might be surprised at how few I actually tried, especially […read more]
This Is True Healing – A Review Of Ka Huna Massage
Having just returned from my first visit, I knew I had to write a review of Ka Huna massage for you all. I’m not going to bore you with small talk- I’d just love you to discover this mind-blowing modality for yourself. Why Ka Huna? I had an epic week at work last week. […read more]