“Finding My Own Pace” is a book written by my blogging friend, Melissa Reynolds about her experience of living with chronic illness and pain. You might remember Melissa from her previous guest post about Yoga Nidra. Having lived with chronic pain for many years, Melissa has developed a range of coping techniques, many of which she shares in her new book Finding My Own Pace. Today, she’s kindly sharing a few of her tips here for my readers.
Category: Chronic Pain
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Oops! Brain Fog Moment Last Week
Last week, I had a classic brain fog moment. I published a post on my blog for Pain Awareness Month and forgot to click the button that sends an email notification to subscribers. Oops!! Maybe it’s because I hadn’t blogged for a while. Or perhaps it was because my pain…
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Chronic Pain Is Complex ~ Pain Awareness Month 2025
Living with pain daily is life for millions of people throughout the world. We wake up with it. Go to sleep with it. It’s there, affecting everything we do in life. Chronic pain is common. It’s not a rare condition that few people know about. However, it is a condition…
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A Wee Catch-Up – It’s Been a While
Hi Everyone. I haven’t blogged for such a long time so I think it’s time for a wee catch-up. I hope you are all as well as you possibly can be. Last year, I told you that I was taking a blogging break to focus on myself. I don’t think…
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Look Forward With Enthusiasm – Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone. I am sending you my very best wishes and hope you have better health and lots of happiness. Hopefully, good things happen for you in 2024 and I truly hope that you can look forward with enthusiasm despite your pain or chronic health condition. I…
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Wave Health App Symptom Tracker – Review
I was contacted a few weeks ago by Wave Health to ask if I would consider using and reviewing their health-tracking app. The Wave Health App was created after one of the company’s founders was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The app was initially created specifically for people undergoing cancer treatment….
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It’s Important to Focus on Ourselves Sometimes
I’ve not been blogging much lately. In fact, it’s over two months since I last published a post and I have been somewhat absent on social media and on my trigeminal neuralgia support group too. In the past, that would have driven me nuts. But this time it hasn’t. In…
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100 Small Things That Make My Day Better
I’m a great believer that the small things in life are actually the things that matter most. And that’s especially so when living with chronic health conditions. Life with chronic pain and illness can feel overwhelming. Sometimes everything seems so bleak that it can feel as though there isn’t anything…
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Life With Pain – One Small Step at a Time
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”Neil Armstrong Everyone probably recognises that quote by Neil Armstrong when he stepped onto the moon in 1969. I believe he misjudged when he called it a small step. To me, that was a monumental leap. I know what small steps…
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Review of the Walkstool – Ideal if You Live With Pain
A few weeks ago, my husband was watching a YouTube video and came across something he thought would be good for me – the Walkstool which is a lightweight folding stool with telescopic legs. I watched the video with him and agreed that it would be really good for me….