Monday 7th January 4pm UK; 5pm CET; 8am pacific; 11am Eastern. With a chronic illness self-care becomes a full time job that we’ve had no training for. What’s more we have very little energy to learn the skills that will make our work smooth and efficient. If you’re struggling to make your self-care work for … Read more
When you have a chronic illness, looking back can be hard, so generally I don’t do it. But looking back can serve if we choose where to focus the spotlight. At this time of year, considering what worked in the last year can help galvanise our motivation for what we need to do in the … Read more
No matter how good you get at illness management, ME/CFS has a special way of hiding your true energy levels from you and tricking you into doing too much. This happened to me a few weeks ago. I’m now just about out from the other side of the crash and back to reasonable level of … Read more
This is a post I wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner and first appeared there about 5 weeks ago: Illnesses like ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Lyme disease are extremely hard to understand, in fact even when you’re the one experiencing it, it’s hard to get sometimes. And they’re relatively invisible, partly because people that aren’t our nearest and dearest … Read more
Monday 3rd December 10am Pacific; 1pm Eastern; 6pm UK; 7pm CET Do you struggle to say no to holiday events that you know are too much for you? Do you feel guilty about how little you can contribute and always end up doing too much? Are you too easily tempted by not wanting to miss … Read more
One of the things that I’m not very good at is taking a day off. Part of that is the pressure of running my own business and trying to make ends meet. Partly, it’s because I have a great routine that supports my well-being but means I can only work a maximum of 4 or … Read more
FREE online Program starts Monday 19th November! Do you struggle with pacing and managing family visits? Does what you have to miss out on gets you down? Do you get overwhelmed by what needs to get done and the decisions involved? Are you worried about the holiday season just wiping you out? Do you feel … Read more
The choices we make about how we spend our money have a huge influence on the world. Our choices determine how things are produced, who gets paid and how much, how far things have to travel and how well workers are treated. However, we tend to focus only on what we want to buy generally … Read more
New Coaching Combi-Pack! Having now run 5 extensive group coaching programs, I’ve discovered that there is a real magic to the group process! When you witness another person being coached on a similar issue to your own, their developmental effort rubs off on you. It’s like they’re doing the work for you. Of course that … Read more
Monday 5th November 10am pacific; 1pm eastern; 6pm uk; 7pm cet Are you struggling to deal with dramatically limited energy? Are you stuck in a boom and bust cycle? Do you find yourself pushing yourself all the time? Are you weighed down by just not having enough energy to meet all your demands? Are you getting the best … Read more
