Reading is one of my favorite pastimes, a good book can distract me when I'm not feeling well, it can teach me so many things, or it can simply help me relax and fall asleep at the end of a hard day. I enjoy nonfiction as much as fiction, and while I prefer to avoid the "cure" books, I do look for … [Read more...]
Super Sick: You are a chronic illness super hero
Are those with chronic illness, super heroes or just super sick? That is one of the questions that Alison Alexander seeks to answer in her new book, Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness. The book uses examples from pop culture to explore how culture treats sick people, and how those with … [Read more...]
Can MBSR help fibromyalgia?
Can MBSR help fibromyalgia? After years of being interested in mindfulness and meditation, I finally signed up for a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course in 2017. I'd only recently learned what MBSR was from reading The Whole Health Life by Shannon Harvey, which talks about the … [Read more...]
Are you making your healthcare appointments work for you?
Are you making your healthcare appointments work for you? Doctor appointments often seem like a waste of time to me, especially those regular 3 and 6 month follow-ups with the specialists. Why is it that whenever those appointments come up everything seems to be going well, then 3 weeks later things … [Read more...]
Living the Whole Health Life
I was given a copy of The Whole Health Life by the author, Shannon Harvey because she and her husband felt that it aligned with the info that I share here on my blog. I couldn't agree more. After they told me about the book I really couldn't wait to read it, and as I started reading it I couldn't … [Read more...]
Unlocking Lyme: Myths, Truths, and Practical Solutions for Beating Lyme Disease
There's a lot of overlap between Lyme disease and fibromyalgia. Enough that it's worth doing what you can to rule out Chronic Lyme before allowing for the assumption that you have fibromyalgia. Dr. Bill Rawls is not just a doctor but he's also a patient. After having to set his practice aside while … [Read more...]
3 steps to finding the right doctor
Finding the right doctor can be incredibly difficult. Over the years I've gone through more than my share of primary care doctors. It seems that too often they do little more than treat basic illnesses, often leaving me to wonder why I have one. We've been without a general practitioner for the … [Read more...]
Conquer Your Chronic Pain with Dr. Peter Abaci
Dr. Peter Abaci pain doctor who realized that this primary methods of pain relief (injections, pain meds, surgery) weren't really helping people and in many cases his patients ended up in more pain rather than less. He shares his drug-free approach to conquering chronic pain. I was … [Read more...]
Book review: Take Back Your Life by Tami Stacklehouse Fibromyalgia Coach
I've followed Tami Stacklehouse for years, so when I saw that her book was available on Amazon I snatched it up. The idea of being a health coach is something that has appealed to me at times. When I had to give up the idea of completing a graduate degree and pursuing counseling in that way I gave a … [Read more...]
12,000 Canaries Can’t Be Wrong (book review)
Dr. John Molot is a Canadian physician, specializing in Environmental Medicine. As a result he has seen over 12,000 patients suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and other issues that seem to leave patients with more questions than answers. The … [Read more...]
