Pacing Problems
Hey everybody! This week I have felt all over the place and honestly it had all been because of pacing problems! I think this is something that all chronic illness warriors will agree with me about, pacing is a constant struggle!! In the past I have posted about how to pace yourself for special occasions, and for a while there I thought I had it down pretty well. However, now I have a low blood count again, and the house is getting dusty and I just wish I could find a way to juggle all the things that need doing with the amount of energy my body can give me…
4 Simple Ways To Combat Flu
While the common cold can afflict us at any time throughout the year, the flu tends to strike during the winter season. The colder temperatures allow the influenza virus to mutate and morph into new strains and strike with a vengeance. While a cold can be relatively mild, resulting in a few sniffles, a mild temperature and a sore throat, the flu is altogether a different beast. If your symptoms came on rapidly, you have a soaring fever, your muscles ache, you have a tight chest, you suffer from dizziness and vomiting, and feel like you’ve been hit by a juggernaut, the chances are that flu has you in its…
Staying Healthy This Winter
Whether you suffer from a chronic illness or not, staying healthy, and keeping your family healthy, in the wintertime seems to be so much harder than it is in the summer. There are coughs and colds everywhere, our joints and muscles ache when we get up in the morning, overindulge over the holidays leads to stomach upsets and bugs, and being in such close quarters as we hunker down indoors means that the spread of disease is faster and easier than when we are all outdoors and have our windows open at home. While coughs and colds can never be avoided entirely, there are things that you can do to…
Feeling happy at Christmas
Hey everybody! Well now if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might be aware that Christmas is a very difficult time for me since my Grandparents passed away. It just was always a time that was very focused on them and I have been dreading it to be honest. But then as I looked back over my week, as I always do on a Friday, I realised that I might actually be feeling happy at Christmas! It took me a moment when I realised to think it through and really digest what that meant. I mean Christmas has been a dark time and I have been…
Extremely Effective Ways to Relax Naturally
Oriental cultures realised centuries ago that emotions can affect our physical health as well. It took the western world a while longer to grasp this principle, and it seems it was in the 1940s before this really happened. It was between then and the 1970s that a distinction was made between good stress and bad stress. We all know about bad stress and anxiety, but did you realise there is good stress that can improve the functions of your brain? Fight Or Flight Mode This is one of the times stress can be good. If you are in sudden danger, your body will begin a process of diverting energy from…
10 Healthy Ways to Manage Erectile Dysfunction
If you are experiencing trouble getting an erection, maintain an erection for long, reduced sex drive chances are that you are developing or have developed erectile dysfunction. Whether you currently suffer from ED or are hoping to sidestep this condition, try these tips to overcome ED for better health and a better sex life. The major causes of ED are physical conditions including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and even sleep disorders. Medication taken for health conditions can result in erectile dysfunction. In this article, you will discover 10 healthy ways to manage erectile dysfunction. 1. Start with Exercise Exercise is an active treatment for a…
Looking ahead at the end of the year
Hey everybody, Sometimes it takes opening up to make things happen as you start looking ahead at the end of the year. I have been working hard to try not to be a people pleaser anymore but after being one for so long it is kind of hard to just change you know? However, though I have been working hard to learn to be a psychicover the last two years, it never felt right to me and I was scared to tell my teacher the lovely Linda, in case I upset her or let her down. But I really do not enjoy talking about and to people who have passed on. I…
Ups and downs
Hey everybody! Well December has arrived, and we are all reflecting back on the year, while either dreading or getting excited for Christmas. As we look back we realise we all have times where we struggle but it is rarely all one way or the other, life is just full of ups and downs. Over the last few days I have been thinking back, and a good way of doing this I realised was to look at my vision board. I have never made one before, but I recently read a book called Moonology where the author teaches you about how to work with the moon and part of it…
When you feel like you’re running on empty
Hello my butterflies! My blood count is low, I have been put back on iron tablets and that’s it really! It’s so hard when you feel like you’re running on empty! Now I have suffered with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) and fatigue from my other illnesses for years now, but if you remember I wrote a post not too long ago explaining that antibiotics had given me gastritis. So I had to have some blood taken so they could keep an eye on my liver and find out how it has been affected if at all. A few days ago I got a phone call from my doctor that my…
Having past life regression and meeting inspiring people
Hey everybody! Having past life regression and meeting inspiring people has been what this week was all about it was so cool but oh so tiring!! I love going on adventures but sometimes it just feels a bit overwhelming and by the end of the week I would rather be curled up sleeping than doing anything else! On Monday’s post I talked about having crystal healing for the first time and I can honestly say my pain and fatigue have been more manageable since! The pain and fatigue are still there I would be lying if I said wow it is a miracle I am cured because I still have…
