How can I help my fatigue?
How can I help my fatigue? I am sure if you suffer with it you have asked yourself this many times just as I have!
How To Approach Dealing With Grief
Grief is one of life’s hardest emotions but sadly is also one that we will all experience at one stage or another. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, however, there are healthier ways to approach the grieving process and we’ll explore them in this post. What is grief? Before we get into discussing the healthy ways in which you can deal with grief, it’s important to take a step back and understand what grief is. Grief is your emotional response to the loss of someone or something you love and can present itself as a number of different emotions. Grief is often associated with death and this…
A new daily routine
So, as you know if you are a regular reader of my blog, we got a new dog his name is Dexter and he is a 5year old shih tzu. We have had him a couple of weeks now and he has really settled in well just becoming a part of the family and we love him. However, he is a higher energy dog than Gizmo ever was even as a puppy and I’m trying to work out a new daily routine. Lee is now back at work, so I am with the dogs most of the time on my own they both seem to be battling for my attention…
An exhausting whirlwind
Wow this last week has been an exhausting whirlwind! Last Wednesday we drove 2 and a half hours each way to pick up a rescue dog from Pupcakes rescue. We were told he was aggressive at first and didn’t like to be touched until he knew you, we were prepared for it to take time and to be honest were mostly concerned with him feeling safe. We wanted to give him a chance and were excited to get him, however we had no idea how different he would be once we got him home. We were on edge the first day, and of course stress can make pain and fatigue…
Health Update
Wow it has been a hot minute since I last posted here and for that I am so sorry I have not been well enough to post lately so it’s time for a health update So, if you are a regular reader you will know I have been struggling with my stomach since October/November time. It started when I was given some antibiotics and they interacted with some of the tablets I was already on. Since then I have been in so much pain and it is getting no better. I was actually taken off the medication that it interacted with, they found I was on two different antidepressants.…
Reflecting with a goddess
So the other day I was doing a meditation by Sentia Yoga on Insight Timer called ‘Nine divine days day six the healer’. I have been enjoying this whole series but this one really resonated with me. In it she spoke about the Roman Goddess Feronia and while listening I just felt a lightbulb go off in my head. I have found it stayed with me and since then I have been reflecting with a goddess something I have not really done before. You see this is the Roman Goddess of health and abundance but also of freedom. She granted freedom to slaves and at first I struggled to get…
How I treat my chronic pain
Well I have been meaning to do a post showing how I treat my chronic pain for a while. I hope this post will give you some new ways to cope and treat your pain and I think its important we all share our tips and tricks anything is worth a try. I definitely think we all get to that point at some stage and you never know some of them may help you. How I treat my chronic pain CBD So I use a few versions of CBD this is a great way of treating chronic pain, but it does take trying different types to find what works for…
3 Real Benefits To Mindfulness
There is such a lot of back-and-forth around mindfulness these days that it is hard to know what’s what, or who believes what. If you are keen to get into mindfulness, you might feel that you are besieged by many different people saying many different things, and that can make it hard to even know what it is in the first place, let alone how to practice it well or get the most out of it. Generally, mindfulness refers to a specific kind of meditation practice with roots in Buddhist Vipassana which has the goal of paying careful and close attention to whatever happens to arise in each moment. So…
So summer has finally arrived
So, summer has finally arrived in England and for those of us with chronic illnesses who find it hard to regulate our body temperature it’s not great! Honestly, I cannot step outside to enjoy the sunshine because it is so bright and hot, but our houses are insulated so it’s really hot inside too! Currently I am sat on my sofa in the living room, but yesterday I spent the whole day in bed tired, in pain and with a really bad headache. Today is much the same except my EDS joints are very unstable and painful and I am sat in the living room which is the coolest room…
Mid-year goals
It is July and though the weather here in the UK is very up and down and not very summery, I do realise we are half way through the year. I read this post by Living with ME yesterday and I thought it was a wonderful idea. Yesterday was a big day because I did get an award nomination and started thinking about my mid-year goals. At the start of the year I did make this post stating my Resolutions and affirmations for 2019. Now we are half way through the year I think it is important to think about the things we want to achieve by the end of…
