Welcome to my Lifestyle Parenting Blog, where I explore topics related to chronic illnesses such as ME/CFS, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia while embracing a passion for yoga, books, and blogging.
Living With Chronic Illness: Gentle Bed Yoga Practices for Flare-Up Days
Yoga isn’t always about rolling out a mat and flowing through sun salutations. Some days, when chronic illness hits hard, even lifting a hair bobble feels like climbing a mountain. On those flare-up days, yoga looks different, messy, slow, and mostly done in bed. But it’s still yoga, and it still matters.
10 Simple Yoga Poses to Help Relieve Chronic Pain
Living with a chronic illness and chronic pain is debilitating, challenging and ubiquitous, but I’ve found that incorporating gentle yoga poses into my weekly routine offers some relief. Even if the relief is small, I'm going to embrace it. I always make sure to listen to my body, modify the yoga poses as needed, and adapt.
Why I Use Yoga to Help Me Live with Chronic Pain
Living with cervical spinal narrowing, arthritis in the spine, mechanical back pain, MECFS, fibromyalgia, and chronic tennis elbow is a daily battle for me. Pain is my constant companion, and exercise intolerance is a frustrating reality. But I refuse to let it control my life completely. While medication helps, I don't want to be reliant on to many painkillers that may well leave me unable to fully function. So, I've had to find other means and ways to try different ways to manage the pain.