You Decide

So you may be wondering…you decide what? Well, I believe you decide your own happiness. We all hear happiness quotes like ‘things don’t make you happy’, ‘you can’t buy happiness’, and the infamous ‘don’t worry, be happy’. But just hearing those quotes obviously doesn’t teach you how to be happy. Some of us, in pursuit …

Don’t Give Up

Last week as my bi-weekly CBT appointment was wrapping up she said to me, "Don't give up." This came on the heels of her comparing my chronic illness story to the movie Erin Brockovich, and rightly so. There are so many of us CFS/ME sufferers falling through the cracks. We’re losing everything, we are scared …

8 Things We Learn With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) turns your world upside down. From my experience and the experiences of others I've encountered on social media, most of us are trying with all our might to stabilize our lives and make things as normal as they once were pre-illness. In this stabilization process we are forced to see so many …