"All your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting it must be found outside you." I just saw this posted on a "friend's" Facebook wall. I put "friend" in quotes because we really were never more than online acquaintances. He's now been removed from my friend's … [Read more...]
How are you Doing?
"I'm Fine". It's our automatic response when people ask "How are you doing?". We are so conditioned to the idea that "How are you doing?" is just a formality and no one really wants to know how we are doing. But, some people really do care and really do want to know how we are doing. I am constantly … [Read more...]
Is your Stuff making you feel worse?
Every once in a while I catch the show "Hoarding: Buried Alive"and on a couple of different episodes they've mentioned that the person has Fibromyalgia. It got me thinking about how we try to fill the void that Fibromyalgia puts in our lives. Fibro takes so many things away from us and we have to be … [Read more...]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Fear of Pain
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps Fibromyalgia patients deal with fear of pain I was just reading an article that mentioned Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a treatment for Fibromyalgia. The part that caught my attention was: In this study, similarly, CBT sessions were designed to help the … [Read more...]
