Fibromyalgia and the ‘crafty’ person: knittin’ , hookin’ and stitchin’ as therapy
“As I get older, I just prefer to knit”, Tracy Ullman In the Canadian Globe and Mail , Thursday, February 18, 2016, L5, featuring an article...
Harnessing your fibromyalgia anxiety with mindfulness meditation
“Breathe and let be”, Jon Kabat-Zinn Within the last two decades the concept of mindfulness meditation has been adopted by schools, hospitals, businesses, police and...
Fibromyalgia is NOT a ‘Disease’! Manual therapists to “help”?
“Names are not always what they seem”, Mark Twain How to go about convincing experts and the general population that fibromyalgia is not a...
Fibromyalgia and Nurses
“Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their...
Fibromyalgia: Healing yourself
” What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace...
Fibromyalgia and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”, Jon Kabat-Zinn Several years ago I was privileged to take the Mindfulness-Based Stress...
Fibromyalgia: the mosaic of treatments
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom”, Bertrand Russell I believe that those of us with central sensitization, that is, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue...
Fibromyalgia and Medical Marijuana Revisited
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”, Leonard Cohen-Anthem Cannabinophobia has resulted in a frenzy of political, medical, social...
Fibromyalgia and Happiness
“People are made happy by one thing and one thing only-pleasant sensations in their bodies”, Yuval Noah Harari What is happiness? Sometimes I think...
Nurses and Fibromyalgia
” The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening...