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Many of us tell ourselves “if only” stories about love that seem entirely reasonable at first—stories that fit with what we’ve learned over the years, and that resonate with our hopes, fears, and…

Updating on my health and life after moving to France from the UK. What I'm recommitting to, bracing for and how I'm pampering myself too.

Kristina Kasparian’s pain was unbearable. She couldn’t shower without vomiting from the strain, couldn’t pull up her underwear or tie her shoes. But doctors brushed it off as IBS or anxiety.…

On grief, capacity and regulation. The stories that pain tells when control slips.

How does Antiphospholipid Syndrome affect the body? Whilst APS is a blood clotting disorder, it is also a systemic autoimmune disease.

A personal look at the invisible labour of chronic illness, pain and fatigue. The quiet coping strategies people use just to get through the day.

I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you. I don’t want to trick you into feeling an emotion you weren’t planning to feel, or to take …

Inspiring Canadians to live better.

Chronic pain and invisible illness can be incredibly isolating, sometimes in obvious ways but other times, it's far more insidious or subtle. Just as our pain and symptoms are mo

Personal Perspective: A psychologist describes the social challenges that people living with chronic pain often face—and what we can do about it.

Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.

Forgot your laundry in the washing machine? Sorry, you’re going to have to wash it again.

Data from an early trial showed the company’s “gamma delta” cell therapy surpassed benchmarks set by personalized CAR-T treatments tested in lupus.

How to diagnose supplement toxicity starts with patient omissions. Follow supplement-induced liver injury clues across history, labels, timing, and dechallenge.

Lymphatic drainage massage moves waste toward your lymph nodes to rid your body of toxins and reduce fluid retention. Learn more.

Pollution can harm the skin. Can these products repair it?

Chronic pain changes you and impacts everything you do because before doing a task people with pain have to think about how that activity is going to affect their pain levels. Some people with Spin…

joining in with Sheryl from a Chronic Voice where those of us with chronic illnesses join up each month to talk about our illnesses and life

Your body sends early warning signals before things get harder. The problem is that chronic illness makes those signals difficult to notice and even harder to trust. This post is about what early…

When you live with chronic pain, everything you do revolves around your pain levels because you can’t do anything without thinking about it. Chronic pain is a full-time job and shows up when we don…

Being physically active has been shown to have many health benefits , both physically and mentally. It may even help you live longer. Additionally

Sometimes life is hard, and you need to start building a life that works with your body and respecting my new normal.

When we think of pain, physical pain often comes to mind first. But sometimes, chronic pain isn't the worst part about chronic illness.

People often ask me how to live with chronic illness, especially when chronic pain seems endless. Here are my personal approaches I use to thrive.

Degradation of the immune system’s critical maintenance work could be a target for extending a healthy lifespan.

Starting over at 50 feels like going back to zero. It isn't. You're standing on decades of experience, judgment, and relationships. Here is how to rebuild

A New Month to Share My Life Experiences with Chronic Illness. Writing prompts for people with chronic illness and disability.

Read my diary entry for June 2019 — A pain pill, a caress and some space to breathe can help to relieve life with chronic pain a little bit.

Let's explore how age, hormones, and daily habits influence the vaginal microbiome throughout puberty, pregnancy, and beyond.

Compression garments are sometimes recommended in PoTS, vaso-vagal syncope or orthostatic hypotension. Compression of the lower limbs helps to move blood from the legs and abdominal cavity back into…

Knowing the psychology behind why moments drag or whizz by can give you a degree of control over your experience of time

Personal Perspective: Americans love the idea of a self-made man or woman, but what if there is no such thing?

When you are disabled, you are constantly learning how to navigate ableist comments because non-disabled people are always saying, and most of the time I don’t think it’s intentional. O…

Research shows that considering how we will be remembered when we die can help us improve our mental health and find more meaning during our lives – including if we are still young.

Research shows that considering how we will be remembered when we die can help us improve our mental health and find more meaning during our lives – including if we are still young.

Pacing doesn't work the way you have been taught, this post examines the evidence and looks at why, because energy isn't just physical.

All-or-nothing thinking in ADHD can be loosened with one question: What else is true? Advice for cognitive rigidity.