The biggest lesson I have learned from my experience with elimination diets is that food can help and hurt your body. For so many years I have used food to fulfill my emotional needs. I…
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How To Re-Create Your Life After A Fibromyalgia Diagnosis
A fibromyalgia diagnosis often arrives after a long period of uncertainty. Many people spend months or even years moving through unexplained pain, fatigue, sleep disruption, and cognitive difficulties before finally receiving a name for what…
The Weight of Fibromyalgia on My Body and Soul
Fibromyalgia is such a complex condition. It affects you physically, cognitively and emotionally. Sometimes, if forces us to change who we are or suffer the consequences. This is where I have a hard time because…
Suffering From Fibromyalgia Or Fighting It: The Choice Is Yours
Having Fibromyalgia is like a roller coaster ride. Most days I just don’t know how I am going to feel. I try to have a positive mindset and I find it helps when I’m around…
How I Let A Pandemic & Fibromyalgia Break Me and How I Fixed It
It has been awhile since I sat down to write. Life has been overwhelming, wouldn’t you agree? I’ve been contemplating my place in the world and what I want that place to look like. I’ve…
College Student With Fibromyalgia? Here Is How To Stay Organized.
At the age of thirty-nine I decided to go back to college and finish my degree that I had started over 20 years prior. If I thought college was hard at eighteen, I had no…
The Emotional And Physical Toll Of Raising A Child With Mental Illness
Staring down at my beautiful new son I am filled with love, so much love. I practically imagine his whole life in front of me. How wonderful his life is going to be and how…
Non-Painful Event Hypersensitivity as Part of Fibromyalgia Pathology
Beyond Pain: The Expanded Sensory Experience in Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is often described in terms of chronic widespread pain, but pain is only one part of a much broader sensory disturbance. Many individuals with fibromyalgia report…
How To Love a Woman With Chronic Illness
Loving a woman with chronic illness is not defined by grand gestures, heroic sacrifice, or constant problem-solving. It is shaped in the quieter, more consistent places: how you respond when plans change, how you listen…
It’s All Right to Take a Break – Chronic Pain & Fibromyalgia Awareness
Chronic pain is often misunderstood as something that can be pushed through with enough determination or ignored with the right mindset. Fibromyalgia, in particular, is still surrounded by confusion, skepticism, and outdated assumptions about what…