Today, I’m really happy to bring you a guest post from a fellow chronic illness blogger, Suzan Jackson. Suzan explains how she coped with life after developing ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Her life changed dramatically and this post explains her journey. She has also written a book entitled Finding a…
Tag: Acceptance
Chronic Pain
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How to Pace Yourself To Keep Pain Under Better Control
Simple everyday tasks are often difficult when you live with chronic pain and enjoying life might seem impossible. However, if you can pace yourself, the impossible might become possible. Your pain might stay under better control and allow you to do more. Pacing Yourself Won’t Cure Pain But it Can…
Chronic Pain
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Accepting a New Normal When You Miss Your Old Life
When you live with a health problem, you often have to deal with many changes in life. These changes can be extremely difficult for people to come to terms with. Understandably, people often miss and mourn their old life. Accepting this new normal is far from easy, but often it’s the key to enjoying life again.
Everyone’s normal is different. And everyone’s normal can change from time to time whether through choice or necessity.
Emotional & Mental Health
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Why is Appearance so Important to People?
Everyone is different. For some people, appearance is so important. But for others, it really doesn’t mean anything at all. Since I don’t go out much, I tend to wear comfortable clothes like leggings, tee shirts and hoodies nearly all the time. I don’t give the mirror a second glance….
Chronic Pain
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Living with Pain or Illness – Life in the Slow Lane
Living with chronic pain or any type of chronic illness can often be like living life in the slow lane. My life is certainly like that. There are two speeds in my life – slow or very slow. I know that I’m simply not fit for a different type of…
Back Pain & Scoliosis
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Learning to Listen to Your Body When You’re in Pain
Learning to listen to your body when you’re in pain is easier said than done. I have lived with pain for most of my life. Chronic severe pain which has been both disabling and debilitating. There have been spells when it’s been extremely difficult to cope with it.
For many years, I tried to fight against my pain which did nothing but make it worse. Eventually, I learned to listen to my body. It didn’t stop the pain, but I was able to cope with it better.