My ongoing recovery from CFS/ME.
One of my mentors, Nicholas de Castella, attributes part of his recovery from Chronic Fatigue to emotional intelligence. He’s running a free webinar on 14th October 2015 at 7pm Australian Eastern Daylight time on using emotional intelligence to create breakthroughs in life. I learned a lot of what I use in Read more
I woke up this morning feeling anxious… again! Fuck I hate that. Fortunately I’m physically well enough now that long, anxious days in bed aren’t the only option any more. I still feel like I have a mild cold, and more anxiety than I can poke a stick at. Sometimes I Read more
I woke up this morning feeling quite content. I had a fun day yesterday: I spent the afternoon in an Improv games workshop, playing improvised theatre games with a bunch of my old Improv friends. When I first got into Improv a few years ago, I was still quite ill. Read more
One of my readers recently pointed me to Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), which appears to explain the ongoing tension headache that I’ve had for the past few years. The idea behind TMS is not new to me: suppressed emotions causing physical tension and pain in our bodies. What is new Read more
I’ve been feeling an increasing frustration at the difficulty that I’m having making new friends in the suburb where I live. I moved to Bondi about a year ago, and expected that I would be meeting people all over the place, especially considering that there are attractive, interesting people all Read more
I’ve decided to give the Paleo diet ago, just for the fun of it. “Who wants to eat a diet our ancestors ate when the average life expectancy was 25?” – A Comedian I Heard Recently Whose Name I Can’t Remember. (Anyone know, to save me doing the actual research?) Read more
I woke up with a headache this morning, and ended up spending most of the day in bed. I’m not entirely sure what that’s about, but I don’t think it’s purely coincidental that it’s my mother’s birthday today.I haven’t spoken to my mother for most of the past year, after Read more
I spent most of yesterday with my parents, and interestingly and painfully, ended up with another cracker tension headache. It all started out well enough: I had invited my father out for a slightly belated Father’s Day lunch at the local club. Initially I had planned to pick him up Read more
I decided to start taking drumming lessons last week, and noticed something interesting. My teacher suggested that I try keeping the beat with the heel of my left foot on the floor while playing. I noticed immediately that this was difficult, not just because of the coordination involved, but because Read more
A thunderstorm has just passed over my place, so maybe the universe is telling me to answer this question I got via email recently: Hi, I’ve had this hideous illness since 1998. However, I enjoyed approx 6 years of feeling quite well but with symptoms at times. I could walk up Read more