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…
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The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!
As the autumn air ushers out the summer sun I, like many of my friends around the world living with fibromyalgia reel from a flare…
View More The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!Reasons to stay alive
Some of us I think are prone to revisiting the same dark places. Maybe down to past traumas that stay with us, genes that we inherit or God knows what is responsible. I don’t actually think thoughts of suicide are uncommon.
View More Reasons to stay aliveMonsters – 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…
View More Grief and fibromyalgia 2.0What do we live for? – Grief and chronic illness
Someone said that grief is more or less when you have love to give to someone but they’re not there to receive it.
View More What do we live for? – Grief and chronic illnessReview: the pain companion by Sarah Anne Shockley
Sometimes we meet pain on the path of life, and sometimes, in a way, pain becomes the path, but it is never the totality of who we are– Sarah Ann Shockley
View More Review: the pain companion by Sarah Anne ShockleyDear younger self…
You will get tired of being sick. That’s ok. Totally ok. Own it. Take time. Rest. And get back to work.
View More Dear younger self…12 things that helped me to smile despite the pain
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.
View More 12 things that helped me to smile despite the painPain
I feel like my insides are falling out. I’m sorry, this was supposed to be a happy post, but for the past four days I’ve…
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