About 10 days ago my parents and I braved the snow and went to see Jenifer Brea’s award-winning documentary ‘Unrest’ at a showing in a local church hall. Unfortunately, the next day I was hit by a viral crash and I had to abandon my attempt to write the review I’d planned because I simply … Read more
FREE online workshop Monday 11th Dec at 4pm UK (11am EST) Illnesses like ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia can involve sensitivity to chemicals and contaminants, which may even extend to today’s synthetic medications. As minimising the toxic load in our body can be an important aspect of our self-help, we can find ourselves turning more and more … Read more
Personally, I don’t particularly like receiving gifts. Partly because I move between two bases. Carrying things and storing things is always a problem, so I really prefer to have as few things as possible to worry about. I’m also very concerned about the environment, and the energy, water consumption and pollution involved in modern manufacturing … Read more
For about half of my adult life I have lived with Chronic Illness. But because of that I have learned some very special lessons that healthy people often don’t get faced with. I’ve also had to make a lot of changes to the way I live. Most of these changes and lessons have lead me … Read more
This is a post I wrote especially for ProHealth’s Inspirational Corner and first appeared there a couple of months ago. I have to admit that for the last few weeks that I was in the UK over the Summer things went pear shaped with my self-help, and my health declined. Even before things got bad, I knew at the … Read more
Last week in a Facebook live broadcast I share why I believe self-compassion is an absolute fundamental that we just won’t heal without! But in case you’d rather read things than watch or you’d just like a written reminder, here’s why it s important! The bottom line is that in order for our bodies to … Read more
Monday 13th November 4pm UK (11am EST) There are always better days and worse days with chronic illness, but when times get tough we often have the least resources available to us to deal with them well. In this workshop you’ll learn how to prepare for the difficult days creating individualised ‘First Aid Kits’ to … Read more
6 week course starting Thursday 9th Nov 4pm UK (11am EST) only $89 This weekly intermediate course will help you to develop your mindfulness skills to bring more peace, control and healing into your life. It will also teach a variety of mediation techniques that will help you harness the mind/body/spirit connection to encourage self-healing. … Read more
This week I’ve been contacting other people who are thriving despite chronic illness as I’m really excited to be putting together a new resource for you, so watch this space! I do find my work as a coach very satisfying, I love helping people overcome their challenges to take back control from chronic illness, but … Read more
Last weekend I was really struggling. I didn’t feel as though I had the energy for anything and yet my thoughts were tormenting me: ‘You’re not making progress’ ‘You’re not doing enough’ ‘You should be doing all your self-care’ ‘What’s going to happen if you don’t make progress today?’ ‘You shouldn’t just be lying here’ … Read more
