Helping Mums Embrace Gentle Living & Easy Journaling

Why my body suddenly crashes

This is how my body works ….. “Right then, we have a target, all hands on deck we have a target” “We estimate that this project will take <xyz> amount of energy over <abc> number of days: initiate gradual send out of energy per day” “Oh shit, we estimated wrong” “Initiate borrow of energy from […]

The face of silent illnesses

This is the face of illness ……   It doesn’t look particularly ill does it? Honestly I don’t mind.  If I looked like I felt, it would be pretty catastrophic, and at least I don’t have that to worry about.  I don’t need lots of sympathy all the time either.  Although, I suppose it might […]

Why Pampering Is The Best Present You Can Give

Pampering – it’s one of the best presents you can give YOURSELF or your loved ones! It might sound a bit ridiculous for the owner of a Hair & Beauty Salon and Spa to say this: But I hadn’t understand HOW important it is until recently. Now Danny Smith at Radio Verulam is a big […]

18 Months On From My Diagnosis With Fibromyalgia

Lowchens and children

  I’m so sorry, it’s been sooooo long since I wrote about my Fibromyalgia.  I feel especially guilty having been selected as one of the Top 16 Fibromyalgia Blogs worldwide.  I totally meant to blog as I went, but it just didn’t happen. But I have GREAT NEWS, so maybe it’s been more important that […]

Ten Tips On How To Take Care Of Yourself!

I’ve been wondering what to talk about with the gorgeous Danny Smith on his drive time show to Radio Verulam for a couple of days. Should it be my improvement with Fibromyalgia, should it be that the minute the sun comes out we panic about bikini’s or should it be more relationship stuff? But then […]

Meditation for stressed out beginners with little time who can’t Ohm!

Time to stop for a while

  All cudos to those who can ’empty their minds’ or sit in a corner and ‘ohm’ for 30 minutes a day, but I just can’t do it. I’ve tried ‘guided meditations’ too, but all that jingly jangly music irritates me, and I tend to already be swimming in the sea by the time they […]

A ray of hope for all those excuses for being unhealthy, unfit and over-weight

Muffin Top From Above

  Yesterday I asked what I thought was a pretty innocuous question on facebook and twitter ” I’d love all the reasons / excuses why you ended up unhealthy, unfit and overweight?”. I was just looking to finish a list for my book, and expecting a couple of reasons.  I must have had 100 answers by […]

My progress 6 months on from Diagnosis with Fibromyalgia: NEWS!

Progress

  I have NEWS – there have been big changes. Initially it was all rather slow, frustrating and two steps forward and one step back.  My last post was very up and down. However, it looks like it all accumulates into one big sudden improvement, once you have ticked off a large enough percentage of […]

My Progress: Fibromyalgia a couple of months on after diagnosis

Dangers of positive thinking

  I thought you might like to know how I’m doing with the whole fibromyalgia thing? Lots of people have asked how I am, but it’s really difficult to say in 1 sentence, and I feel boring if I describe it in full. I’ve learnt loads more about it and have created a static page […]

It’s not Spring, it’s Winter – Why ‘New Years Resolutions’ are doomed

Our Norwegian forest kittens

Happy New Year 2013 Everyone! It’s January and the crazy dieting and resolution thing is going on everywhere.  I don’t want to be the voice of doom, but your New Years Resolutions are pretty much doomed …. ooh that should be said with an echo doooooomed, doomed! A few of you lucky people will have […]