It’s easy to throw a pill in your mouth, take a swig of water and swallow it down, perhaps spending a few seconds hoping it will help before moving on to the next thing that needs to be done. It’s more difficult to take the time to heal the body
How often do you ignore the need to pee or the pang of hunger and push through to complete whatever it is you are doing? From the very moment we are born we are intricately connected to our bodies and the physical sensations that let us know when we have
I used to treat my body as a machine and expected it to work efficiently and to meet my standards of perfection all the time. I got angry with my body and didn’t like myself when my body did not meet my expectations or I couldn’t perform or achieve as
Why is it scary to be still? This was what the OT asked my son during his assessment yesterday and it struck the very core of me. THIS is the question that lay behind my own healing journey from Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome. Why did I need to push, do, achieve,
I recently read this humorous description of what I call ‘doing addiction’ by Copywriter, Kevin Rogers (The Copy Chief): “I remember a few too many evenings when I literally felt like I could not close the laptop. As if some kind of psychological octopus had wrapped its suction cup tentacles around
Some of you may have heard me say that chronic fatigue can be a gift. For me, my diagnosis and perpetual crashes forced me onto a path of self-discovery that provided me with clarity about how I was seeing and doing life in a way that exhausted me. This knowledge then
“At best, we were parented by “fair-weather parents” who were nice and kind or cold and sharp, depending on how our behavior suited them in the moment. At worst, we were abused, manipulated, or abandoned, left to feel like we were worthless or were some sort of an asset to be
Following on the heels of my last post discussing how chronic fatigue is a spiritual experience this one was written to provide some suggestions for how to deepen spirituality for those who feel called to do so. There are two points I feel to share before I begin. Point #1:
Chronic Exhaustion was my dark night of the soul. For me Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome has been more than only a body and mind experience. It’s been a deeply spiritual one. I would go so far as to say it has been a spiritual awakening. I know this is the case
I know about the body and mind connection but I was not prepared for what happened to me last week. I recently felt called to make an appointment with a physio who specialises in pelvic floor dysfunction in relation to a few niggling complaints. In particular, I had experienced a
