My beautiful soul friend left this earthly plain today. I thought I would be anxious about her dying – death has always made me anxious……
View More Facing death: anxiety and saying goodbye to JensCategory: Moods
Resigned to pain
I don’t usually complain about pain. I’ve gotten used to living with it. If you live with chronic pain, I’m sure you know what I…
View More Resigned to painMaking the most of bittersweet holidays – My top 7 Christmas (holiday) posts
*Originally published on 15 December 2021* HOW is it even Christmas already? Don’t bother answering that. You know how I feel about the holidays. Bittersweet…
View More Making the most of bittersweet holidays – My top 7 Christmas (holiday) postsRemembering my Ma
Two years ago I had planted sunflowers to feel closer to my Ma, who had green thumbs. She loved plants and had a plant nursery, when…
View More Remembering my MaAdvocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmune
I welcome the new research (any research really, please) that suggests fibromyalgia may be “an autoimmune response that increases the activity of pain-sensing nerves throughout…
View More Advocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmuneHow painting mindfully is helping me to cope during tough times
*I received a paint by numbers kit in exchange for an honest review* Last week, on the morning of my 35th birthday, my beloved grandmum…
View More How painting mindfully is helping me to cope during tough timesDementia, suffering and chronic health problems
I pray and I pray so hard, that God will help me to do more than just survive one day at a time. But this is all I can manage now.
View More Dementia, suffering and chronic health problemsLessons from my grandparents – ‘All work and no play’
…we all need play – children and grown ups alike. It is an integral part to our whole selves – to enjoy, to discover, be creative and process life.
View More Lessons from my grandparents – ‘All work and no play’Monsters – World Poetry Day 2019
I am and will be the ‘Me’ that never was imagined.I am the ‘Me’ that’s emerged from the ashes of pain.
View More Monsters – World Poetry Day 2019Grief and fibromyalgia 2.0
This is a post about nothing really. I’ve been getting quieter and quieter. I know. And I’m sorry. Since Mama Claire left for the next…
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