Do you hate your body, the pain and other symptoms it puts you through, and its failure to perform? What if your body is not letting you down? What if your symptoms are simply your body's way of trying to draw your attention to what needs to change in your life? What if you started loving yourself and listening to what your body has to say?
Do you ever get frightened that life has passed you by? That you are old before your time, and that this is all life will ever be? I did.
Being outdoors is healing on so many levels. It's not just about pretty views and fresh air. Did you know there's hard science behind the 'feel good' factor'?
“The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.”
(Demetri Martin)
The experience of chronic exhaustion is so often one of numbness: dislocation from our emotions, our needs and our bodies. We can lose the music in our souls that makes us want to dance and sing. Deliberately reconnecting with the music we love can be a powerful healing tool.
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How often have you been told that, ‘We know so little about fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, ME, Long Covid’ and that you must learn to adapt, not hope? Recovery begins in the belief that there is hope, that there are answers. It ends with membership of a tribe who wake with a sense of wonder every morning at the great gift of life and movement and joy. I continue to find members of my tribe in the most surprising of places and times.
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