Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, fearful or anxious? Take just 5 days to explore a variety of tools that will give you control over your response to difficult circumstances and help you feel more at ease! This FREE 5-day challenge is for you if: you often feel overwhelmed by all you have to do and all that … Read more
May 12th is international ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, MCS and Lyme disease awareness day. Instead of my usual self-help theme, this post is aimed at spreading awareness of what it’s like to live with such a condition. This year, as a result of lockdown, there is more potential than ever to help people understand what it is … Read more
One of the things that I’m hearing a lot of people are struggling with at the moment, is feeling unsettled and unfocused. There may no longer be a full-on sense of anxiety but an inability to feel grounded still persists. I can relate! Life is different and we don’t know how it’s going to pan … Read more
This letter is for you, whether you’re a healthy person struggling with lock-down at the moment or a spoonie feeling fed up with chronic illness….. Dear friend, I’m sorry to hear you’re feeling fed up and unmotivated right now. But know this, what ever you are feeling right now is OK. It’s a totally understandable … Read more
If there is one thing that I’ve become an expert on, as a result of living with an energy limiting chronic illness for 17 years of my life, it can be summed up as being happy when you can’t do very much. For everyone who is now faced with not being able to do all … Read more
Last week my fight or flight system was triggered by world events. Worry and anxiety are such a normal and human reaction to what is happening in the world right now but when you have a chronic illness like ME/CFS, that worry and anxiety can be threatening to your health. Add in the fact that … Read more
With all that has been going on in the world recently it’s not surprising that you may be invaded by worry. With illnesses like ME/CFS where there is an overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system, once the worry switch has been switched on, it can be very difficult to switch off. Although generally, I have … Read more
Do you have occasional moments when your body feels lighter than usual, you have a better sense of your energy flowing, your mind feels clearer and you’re reminded of what it might be like not to be ill? I call these “glimpse moments”. Do you find yourself wanting to make the most of them to … Read more
Life lessons from travel and chronic illness When I was travelling in Africa in my early twenties on a very tight budget (pre-chronic illness), there was no internet to research what to do where, just a trusty guide book (usually a rough guide or a shoestring lonely planet) and the recommendations of other travellers you’d … Read more
Try out a week of my new membership program for FREE Although my energy has been pretty low recently, I still find myself inspired to share my skills. It’s work I love and it flows very easily so after all your input from the questionnaire I sent out, I’ve put together something that I know … Read more
