I feel broken. I am broken but still I carry on. A direct consequence of this brokenness is that I am self critical, rarely happy…
View More Broken but not outCategory: Moods
Seven things…
Recently, my days have been marred by emotional lows, exacerbated by extremely high exhaustion levels, severe IBS (that I will not talk about) and some…
View More Seven things…What makes your life worthwhile?
It is love. Even with pain… it is love. The people I love and those who love me. And that is what drives my determination to keep fighting on.
View More What makes your life worthwhile?The kindness of strangers & love of friends
I’d been lying there drifting in and out of consciousness at the intensive care unit in hospital. I was numb and vacant as ever with…
View More The kindness of strangers & love of friendsConquering fibromyalgia with love
Life with fibromyalgia can be inundated with many things, among them fears and anxieties over the future. It’s not a progressive condition doctors say, but…
View More Conquering fibromyalgia with loveZyleema the Dreamer
Once upon a time, there lived a girl called Zyleema the dreamer. Zyleema the dreamer she was called, because her dreams could turn the dark…
View More Zyleema the DreamerHope for Tomorrow
Last week there was some news that should have made me feel relieved. Scientists said that fibromyalgia is not all in our heads. They found…
View More Hope for TomorrowWhen the Fog Takes Over…
What I feel right now is ineffable. All I know is that I am suddenly more aware of the hollowness inside me. Depression and…
View More When the Fog Takes Over…The Meaning of Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering – Friedrich Nietzsche My own life has been riddled with…
View More The Meaning of SufferingMy New Year ‘Fibromyalgia’ Wish
Us humans, we are so deeply imbued with an inclination to hope, that we blindly do so, regardless of what we see before us. The…
View More My New Year ‘Fibromyalgia’ Wish