Do you find yourself constantly talking about the things that outrage you? Repeating the same story five times to different people, rehashing the drama that’s gotten under your skin, feeding off the outrage that you have inspired in your friends and family? You may just be feeding the beast - an anger addiction. 

Do you feel empowered? Like you’re making choices that are taking you down a road you really want to be on? If not then maybe you aren’t owning your life. The reason this is so important is because if you don’t own it - you can’t change it. So now that’s out of the way let’s talk about a few ways that will help you to own your life.

When I say ‘holistic’ I mean taking into account your whole person.  Your whole body. All the systems that are interconnected and affected by each other. It’s important to be able to identify all the ways that you can support your health and healing and some of them come from places that you might not have previously considered…

One of the most frustrating and debilitating aspects of having fibromyalgia (at least for me) was brain fog.  Imaging trying to read a book, getting half way through a paragraph (if you’re lucky) and then realising you can’t remember anything you’ve just read.  Even worse, imagine talking to someone and half way through the conversation realising that the whole time you had been talking you thought you were talking to someone else. Yes, that happened to me.  

Pain is one of the most debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia and often is a major contributor to the fatigue and sleeplessness that become part of a vicious cycle.  More pain, less sleep, less sleep, more pain. The more tired you are the less able to you are mentally tolerate the pain, thus the more focus it gets and the worse you feel.  The less you sleep the more tired you are and the more pain you feel and you get where I’m going yeah? It sucks.

One of the predominant symptoms of fibromyalgia is definitely the pain, but someone suffering with fibromyalgia knows it is about way more than just the pain.  

Here is a list of some of the symptoms that someone with fibromyalgia may be dealing with on a daily basis:

A simple, easy to make gluten free (and grain free) veggie breakfast.
(Takes 10 minutes tops)