Fibromyalgia and pelvic floor exercises: their effect on continence,...
“Pelvic floor issues can make you feel very vulnerable, depressed and as though you are aging fast”, Michelle Kenway Exercises in general are the bane of those of us with fibromyalgia and I have not...
View ArticleFibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and childhood trauma/ abuse
“I have a strong sense that fibromyalgia may well be based on extremely early and probably preverbal trauma that often is difficult to document in a patient’s clinical history”, Robert Scaer As I noted...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Panic Attacks: Cognitive and Somatic Sensitization
“If you are experiencing strange symptoms that no one seems to be able to explain, they could be arising from a traumatic reaction to a past event that you may not even remember”, Peter A. Levine Two...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Transforming the Brain
“Mindsight is a kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds”, Daniel J. Siegel While much has been written about the brain and the ways in which it can change...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and winter
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home”, Edith Sitwell The winter blues descend upon us if...
View ArticleFibromyalgia. Frustration.Forgiving.
“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge”, Isaac Friedmann Anger is not good for those of us with fibromyalgia. It activates our nervous systems to an unhealthy pitch and can bring about a flare-up. I...
View ArticleChronic Illness/ Stress/ Anxiety/Depression
“Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain clings cruelly to us“ , John Keats Living with fibromyalgia, heart disease, asthma, arthritis, COPD to name but a few chronic conditions, is often overwhelming; it...
View ArticleMindfulness Meditation/ Fibromyalgia/Anxiety/Depression
“If you are cultivating mindfulness in your life, there is not one thing that you do or experience that cannot teach you about yourself by mirroring back to you the reflections of your own mind and...
View ArticleMedications, Medications and more Medications: Fibromyalgia Medicalized
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”,Voltaire Those of us with chronic conditions are...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: The Mark of Shame?
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”, Maya Angelou On June 3rd I heard a documentary on CBC radio...
View ArticleEmotions and fibromyalgia
“Having that sense of anger leads people to actually feel some power in what otherwise is a maddening situation”, Jennifer Lerner There can be little doubt that emotions play a large part in a...
View Article“It is what it is”: Living with a Chronic Dis-ease
“In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality”, Virginia Woolfe The phrase: “It is what it is”, rooted in Buddhist philosophy, is beginning to irritate many people. But, personally I like it; it...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue:Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
“Open your heart to your suffering”, Toni Bernhard There can be little doubt that those of us with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue have challenges that have forced us to live life differently than those...
View ArticleFibromyalgia, self-criticism/self-compassion
“Self-compassion is a more effective motivator for change than self- criticism”, Kristin Neff Those of us with a chronic health condition are generally very critical of ourselves. Our self talk is...
View ArticleFibromyalgia- anxiety embodied
” The truly gripping thing about anxiety had always been how physical it was”, Daniel Smith I have little doubt, but no absolute proof, that anxiety is the root cause of fibromyalgia. I know many...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Laughing Yoga
“Today I don’t feel like laughing at all, but I will try”, Dr.Madan Kataria http://laughingyoga.org I have attended my first laughing yoga class. Phew! It is tiring; my jaw aches. I needed to laugh...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and winter: Breaking the cycle of the ‘Season of Desolation’
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation”, Sinclair Lewis It appears that there is more depression and anxiety in the winter. Seasonal affective disorders are frequent. Despondency,...
View ArticleRedefining Fibromyalgia: Links to Anxiety and the Highly Sensitive Person
“My anxiety remains an unhealed wound that, at times, holds me back and fills me with shame-but it may also be, at the same time, a source of strength and a bestower of certain blessings”, Scott...
View ArticleA strategy for treatment of fibromyalgia
“ Shutting off our fight-or-flight response is key to reducing or eliminating the symptoms of fibromyalgia”, Lars, Clausen “Every time you experience an emotion, at that very instant you create a...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: Women and Men ‘Differences’?
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history”, George Eliot I have based my unproven theory about why more women than men are diagnosed with fibromyalgia upon a feminist analysis of...
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