Raise awareness about chronic illnesses by understanding their impact, symptoms, and the importance of support and education.
Introduction Strength training is often associated with building muscle, improving athletic performance, or changing physical appearance. But for someone living with fibromyalgia, strength training can serve a very different and much more important purpose: improving…
Tips for the Warrior Caring for someone with CFS or FM can be a stressful experience. You may take on extra responsibilities, experience financial strain, feel frustrated and resentful at times, lose companionship, face uncertainty…
Improving Communication The stresses brought by serious illness can make good communication difficult. To complicate matters, CFS and FM create the additional challenge of cognitive problems. Here are seven ideas for how to improve communication…
Story of Fibromyalgia Warrior Recently I was looking at my social media accounts I came across accounts that I had chosen to hide either my content from. As I looked down the list I realized that many of…
Experiencing Fibro fog can make you feel like you’re lost in a maze. You might feel confused, alone, frustrated, disoriented, bewildered, unclear, and adrift. Fibro fog can also affect your emotional well-being. Being unable to…
Introduction Applying for Social Security Disability benefits for Fibromyalgia (FM) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), is often described by patients as one of the most difficult and emotionally exhausting…
Introduction Chest wall pain is one of the more alarming and often misunderstood symptoms experienced by individuals living with fibromyalgia. Because the discomfort is felt in the chest area, it can easily trigger fear of…
Introduction Fibromyalgia is often described in clinical terms—widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, cognitive dysfunction—but those descriptions rarely capture what it actually feels like to live with it day to day. Many people with fibromyalgia struggle…
Introduction There is a kind of exhaustion that sleep does not fix, a kind of pain that does not show on the outside, and a kind of daily negotiation with the body that most people…
Introduction This is my story, written as if it could reach someone whose music has often felt like a voice for people who struggle quietly behind the surface of their everyday lives. It is not…