Freedom from Fibromyalgia

Whoops! I’ve gone and made a total elf of myself!
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to have more fun … and that includes more dancing.
I’m getting a head start here. How about you?
My warmest wishes for a wonderful Christmas (or your own favorite holiday) and a joyous New Year!
Cheers, Sheila
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Sometimes the commotion and expectations of this time of year can send us spiraling downward into stress and exhaustion. At such times, I’ve always been grateful for the gentle reminders on the side of my “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” coffee mug.
Here are a few….

a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace
fill your […]

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When you’re taking a natural route to recovery from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, you need trusted sources of information.
One that I rely on locally (in British Columbia, Canada) is a magazine called alive, which has been keeping its readers up-to-date with natural health for more than 30 years.
For instance, here’s a comprehensive article on fibromyalgia […]

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Even if you’ve decided that drugs are not the answer, and you’re ready to explore alternative medicine, you’re likely to be overwhelmed by too many choices, and too many practitioners to choose from.
As well, you may soon realize that you’re going to need multiple therapies, to repair all the systems in your body.
Now what?
That’s […]

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Looking back, I now believe that my first tangle with what later came to be known as fibromyalgia came in the mid-70s, following a physical attack and its aftermath.
I used to describe my state as “feeling like I’ve been run over by a truck” and “having a fog machine in my head.” Many years later, when […]

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Next time someone questions whether or not the pain you experience with fibromyalgia is “real,” send them to this article.
“It is time for us to … take these patients seriously”
Doctors at the University of Michigan and elsewhere have been using neuroimaging techniques — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) […]

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Do you ever find yourself thinking that we are living in the most astonishing time and place?   I can remember my grandmother Jenny, born in 1890, talking about growing up in the horse-and-buggy era … and she lived to see men walking in space.
Grandma grew up at a time when doctors were just coming — reluctantly […]

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