Benefits of Life Coaching for Fibromyalgia Relief

What’s Life Coaching? Life Coaching has been defined as helping people determine and realize personal goals. Life Coaches use multiple methods that guide you in the direction in which you wish to go. Life Coaching is ideal for anyone who wants to bring balance and improve the quality of life. What’s Fibro Coaching? Fibro Coaching [...]

Lying Down Helps Fibromyalgia Pain, Fatigue & Anxiety

Finding the right balance of activity and rest is one of the biggest challenges for people managing Fibromyalgia (FM) and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The good news is that you can increase your control over your condition by consistently practicing what is often referred to as “pacing”. This means understanding the limitations imposed by your [...]

A Fibro Friendly Lifestyle

One of the most frustrating challenges of having Fibromyalgia (FM) is creating a lifestyle that works for you. I can speak from my own experience after spending many years making adjustments in my life and having to deal with lots of obstacles.   It’s possible to manage, overcome or even recover from the symptoms of [...]

How to Improve the Quality of Your Life

Are you feeling frustrated about all the discomfort you’re experiencing with Fibromyalgia? How can you make changes in your life that can help improve the quality of your life? Here’s a 3 step process to help you make lasting changes that can make a difference for you: What’s your challenge? In other words—what’s bothering you [...]

Are You Being a Good Sport?

People just don’t understand your pain, discomfort, depression or fatigue. You’re harshly judged, even by family and friends as “making it all up”. You feel stereotyped as a whiner with an imaginary disorder. It seems hopeless that anyone will ever believe that you have FM. As a result, do you play the “good sport”? Do [...]

The Frustration of Being Misunderstood

The complaint I hear most often about coping with FM is that family, friends, employers and co-workers just don’t understand what it’s like to have FM. As if it’s not challenging enough to have an illness that is exhausting, painful and affects our ability to cope on a daily basis, we also have to deal [...]

Are You Living in Quiet Desperation?

People with FM often live with a high level of frustration, fatigue and pain. The chronic nature of FM symptoms can often lead to an emotional state I call “quiet desperation”. Not only are you hurting and can’t resolve your symptoms, but people don’t understand what you’re going through and it’s a huge challenge to [...]

Overcoming Fibromyalgia Frustration: My Turning Point

I’ve spent a good part of my life being frustrated about having Fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic illness characterized by widespread pain and fatigue. Through the following story, I’d like to share how I finally reached a turning point that has allowed me to live more peacefully by getting in touch with my own inner spiritual [...]

10 Ways to Manage Frustration, Fatigue and Pain

BREATHE. When Fibromyalgia frustration and anxiety are running high, use this simple breathing technique to calm your jitters:  Slowly inhale into your belly, hold a few seconds, slowly exhale. Repeat 10 times or until you feel more relaxed. KEEP IT SIMPLE. When you keep your lifestyle simple you’ll experience less stress and fewer flare ups. [...]

I Choose Peace

Is it that voice (your ego) in your head again? You know, the one that plays out the drama of the most ridiculous and unimportant stuff? What about the dramas your mind plays out that make you miserable, sick, tired and stressed? It’s been said that we have very few new thoughts everyday, we just [...]