I always say pain changes you. I am not the person I was yesterday, and tomorrow I will not be the person I am today. It’s moulding me into a better, stronger me.
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Tag: chronic pain
Musings on suicide: love might save a life
…every day I decide to live, another person, someone, chooses to die. Their struggle is my struggle, but they have now gone while I still have a chance…
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Overcomers (Louise Webb): Healing my body & turning my illness into something positive
For two years Louise knew that something wasn’t quite right. And the day she was diagnosed with aggressive rheumatoid arthritis she seized the opportunity to shake her life up and set things straight so she could live the life she was meant to.
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Overcomers (Melissa Reynolds): ‘How two keys decisions turned my life around’
When Melissa Reynolds’ life went upside-down with chronic illness, she decided to fight. Nevermind her doctors wouldn’t help, she’d do whatever it took to get her life back.
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Overcomers: Sheryl’s search for meaning: life in pain and hope
Sheryl has stared death in the face. She has had to reframe her life on account of pain. But neither have been able to stop her from living in hope. Not then. Not now.
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Overcomers series (Kayla Lauer): ‘Faith, trust and pixie dust’
Days before Christmas 27 year old Kayla walked into her doctor’s appointment for her routine Remicade infusion — therapy used to help keep her Crohn’s…
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Overcomers: a new series starting Monday 8 January
Be inspired. Be empowered. Be encouraged. Overcomers, a new series starting on Monday 8 January, will lift your spirits, rekindled old dreams and light the…
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Overcomers: New features series coming soon
73 ways to live with fibromyalgia
From medicines to natural remedies to ways of being, here are 73 of the ways I live with fibromyalgia. Forget surviving. We’re talking living. Starting off…
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Hiding hidden disabilities
I’d just rushed into the lift with a heavy sigh. Yes! (I wanted to do a fist-pump). No climbing three flights of stairs, otherwise known…
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