Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Are you tuned in to the right station when you listen to your body?
Whether you often find yourself feeling exhausted or even have full blown chronic fatigue or even Long Covid one of the things people often find themselves doing is resting. It’s understandable isn’t it? That’s where I found myself some years ago, while at university when I first came down with a bad flu virus which…
Read MoreLong Covid
Struggling with fatigue and other symptoms from Long Covid? It sounds all too familiar. As someone that suffered with Chronic Fatigue for over 4 years I really empathise with the struggle people recovering from Coronavirus are going through. One in 10 of those who’ve had the virus have experienced symptoms not just of fatigue but…
Read MoreFight or Flight (The Brains Only Trying to help!)
Fight or Flight guest Blog by Trevor Gardner Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon and writer, chose ‘Better Not Look Down’ by B.B. King as one of his record choices on the BBC’s Desert Island Disks. He explained that brain surgery isn’t much more difficult than other surgery with practice, yet the results when things go wrong…
Read MoreI survived ME now I’m thriving
2006 seems like a long time ago. I guess it is! That’s the year I fully recovered from M.E. Let’s back up a little….. In the late 90s while studying a degree in Marketing at Plymouth University, I was struck down with a horrendous bout of the flu. It meant I couldn’t return to university…
Read MoreThe Great Mistake: renaming Chronic Fatigue to Systemic Exertion Intolerance
Recently there has been a move in the U.S to rename Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also referred to as M.E to instead be called Systemic Exertion Intolerance. As someone that suffered with the condition for over 6 years, neither term makes sense to me. I always felt that ‘Fatigue’ was a poor way to describe…
Read MoreHealth Podcast interview on The Shiatsu Guy Presents
I was interviewed on The Shiatsu Guy Presents podcast. The podcast series looks at a range of different therapies, people’s journey and insights. My interview looked at my journey through Chronic Fatigue and in the process discovering a therapy that helped me as well as my views on health and wellbeing. You can download the podcast episode…
Read MoreHarnessing The Power Of Your Symptoms
Learning to interpret symptoms could mean your body no longer needs to keep sending them. Isn’t it horrible when you feel ill? Maybe you have a stomach ache or migraine or perhaps other debilitating symptoms of chronic fatigue or M.S. While symptoms are never nice, they frequently hold helpful messages from the body. Once we…
Read MoreIs Guilt Making Us Ill?
As someone that’s Jewish, I live in a culture where we’ve perfected the art of guilt. This finely honed skill that every good Jewish family is no doubt familiar with. “Don’t worry about me I’ll just sit here in the dark.” “You don’t write, you don’t call”. While perhaps as a Jew I’ve become accustomed to…
Read MorePayback’s a bitch!
6 years a slave to CFS During my 6 years of struggling with CFS through university, 3 jobs and 3 home moves, one of the things that always seemed strange to me, was that I could be exhausted, have aches and pains and other horrendous symptoms but if I did something I enjoyed like seeing…
Read More“Don’t Worry About It”
Could ‘innocent’ phrases like this affect our health? When I spent a year in Australia back in 2005, one of my favourite hobbies was learning the local lingo. I became adept at using phrases like “no worries” or “no dramas”. While on a little trip to Darwin, a guy offered to help a friend and I…
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