As a society, we like things that are perfectly packaged – even healing/recovery stories or various stories of real life trials and tribulations. When you read these stories, you’ll often find that they (or us as a reader!) skip through the painful parts fairly swiftly, focusing on the neatly packaged... View Article
What do you do when you find yourself in the midst of some really tough days? Perhaps even feeling like you have no strength left? Maybe you feel stuck? Fearful? Perhaps it feels like life has knocked you down one too many times? My advice, from my own personal experience of this... View Article
This weekend was one I had been looking forward to for such a long time. My brother and I had booked to go and see Billy Connolly at the Apollo in London, along with my brothers girlfriend and a friend of mine. As I type these words, I should be... View Article
One of the nicest things I did for myself during this last year, had been starting a Gratitude Jar. On the 1st of January, I got a jar, and tied a pretty pink bow around it and placed the jar on my desk where I would see it each day. From... View Article
I wanted to write a post to reflect a bit on 2015 as we come towards the end of this year and approach a new one beginning. This year has been a time of incredible transformation on so many levels in my own life, that as I sit and reflect quietly this... View Article
When you are living with an illness such as ME/CFS, Christmas can be a really difficult time. Seemingly simple things that others take for granted, such as sitting at the dinner table, may well be impossible for you right now. There will also, be a temptation to push yourself through symptoms... View Article
Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Midwinter Solstice and also share a few words with you… I love this time of year. Not Christmas time as such, although that has its own loveliness of course, but the shortest day. It means that things are about to shift….the... View Article
How often do you find your self sending negative thoughts in the direction of your body? Perhaps getting frustrated that it has gained a little weight, or annoyed with its seemingly endless list of symptoms or unremitting fatigue? Many of us treat our body in a way that is... View Article