I've been blogging for over two and a half years now but I thought I'd take you back to the beginning and share why I decided to start blogging about my sitting pain. What is my sitting pain? In all honesty, I don't know. I've never had a proper diagnosis. I've had my pain since … Continue reading Why I decided to start blogging about my sitting pain
Coping with chronic pain everyday is not easy. It's frustrating, mentally draining, hard work, and quite simply, it damn well hurts. It's hard to be positive and upbeat on most days, especially the bad days, and often all you want to do is moan how bad it is and how rubbish your life is. But … Continue reading How using the right words and thoughts can help you cope better with your chronic pain
I've written a few posts on distraction for chronic pain, and why it's a big part of pain management. In this post I want to delve a little bit deeper in to exactly what distraction is and how you can make it a part of your pain management toolbox and use everyday to help you … Continue reading What is distraction for chronic pain and how can you make it a part of your pain management toolbox
Sometimes chronic pain can stop us doing the things we enjoy and love to do. I went through a real bad patch a few years ago when I said no to doing things with my partner and my friends. This affected my happiness, my relationship, and ultimately my mental health. I had no life and … Continue reading Don’t let your chronic pain stop you doing the things you enjoy
If you really, really look, you will find some positives chronic pain. It takes a while, but you will get there. Of course, chronic pain isn't a good thing - it causes our bodies and minds to struggle on a daily basis; it causes anger, frustration, and at times hopelessness and isolation; it causes us to … Continue reading Finding the positives of chronic pain
A huge part of pain management is distraction. It is important to keep busy to try and not let chronic pain take over, and keeping your mind busy means that you are not focussing on your pain. In this blog post I suggest 9 ways to use distraction as a pain relief and why it … Continue reading 9 ways to use distraction as a pain relief
Socialising when you have chronic pain can be a real struggle. Going out for meals, attending weddings, or work events can be hard. Family, friends, and colleagues often don't know the difficulties we face when we put on a brave face and try and join in. Like I mentioned in a previous blog post why … Continue reading Socialising with chronic pain: the struggles I have that people don’t know about
Everyone's pain is different and everyone copes in different ways. As time goes on you have to learn to cope as best you can. I've had my endometriosis pain for nearly 20 years and my sitting disability and other pains for over 6 years. During that time I have had to learn ways to cope … Continue reading 11 simple ways to cope with your chronic pain
You may have noticed that my Blogtober posts suddenly ended and my last post was on day 16. Well, despite thinking I was ahead of the game with being organised and my planning, life got in the way; the week before I literally had no time to focus on my writing and get my posts … Continue reading I feel like a failure
I don't usually write or talk about things I'm good at. I suppose you could say that this means I'm good at modesty, but I'm not sure that is a good thing all the time - we should be encouraged to talk more about stuff we are good at; in the right way without showing … Continue reading Something I’m good at