Giving Thanks (While Having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia) at Thanksgiving: the Gratitude Game
Happy Thanksgiving! Deep down your mind might grumble with something like “Right! A Happy Thanksgiving …in this body? Happy Thanksgivings are for healthy people?”, “Forget the happy, I hope I just make it through it” or something...
Surviving the Holidays with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. How Do You Do It?
The holidays are a special time of the year when family connections are renewed, but they can be stressful even for healthy people. In my experience, the holidays present two major stumbling blocks for people chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. The Intense...Conversations for Coping: Prayer, Peace and Dealing with Upsets in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
After all the doctors and all the treatments, ‘coping’ is what many of us are left with. The drugs may help, the diet may help, the supplements may help, but the core of the disorder with its considerable physical, emotional and mental impact remains, and...
Conserving Energy and Coping Work in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Except When They Don’t: Study Suggests Large Group Gets No Help
Examining the energy envelope and associated symptom patterns in chronic fatigue syndrome: does coping matter? Brown AA, Evans MA, Jason LA.Chronic Illn. 2013 Apr 12. ‘:earning to stay within your energy envelope isn’t easy particularly when one first...
Life (ME/CFS/FM) Is Tough…..Deal With It: A Zen Approach to Chronic Illness – Part I
(You know I love provocative titles :)) Chronic illnesses are no fun but the way life’s set up somebody is going to have them- hopefully somebody else, for sure – but that’s not anything we can dictate. I recently came across an essay called...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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