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 [...]

Simplify Your Life, Tips for Creating Simple Moments

Ahh, the simple moments in life; aren’t these the moments we cherish the most? In the haste of juggling the demands of family, friends, work and the needs of our own body and mind we often loose site of the simple pleasures that can balance the busyness and hectic pace of modern life. Finding simple [...]

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 [...]

Healing Therapies for Fibromyalgia: What are the Alternatives?

People often ask me about using alternative approaches for healing or relieving Fibromyalgia. Although some people are helped by traditional, western medicine, some do not get the relief and improved health they are hoping for.   What are the alternatives? From my experience, there are many great solutions for alleviating the common symptoms of Fibromyalgia. [...]

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 [...]