As far back as I can remember, I have struggled with perfectionism. I have lived in fear of failing. I needed to be perfect. Anything less than perfection just wasn’t good enough. For most of my life, perfectionism colored my every decision. I...
Over the years, I have refused to accept the commonly-held idea that there is no cure for fibromyalgia, or that we will have to live with this diagnosis for the rest of our lives. Instead, I choose to believe there is a cure. We just haven’t located...
Five years ago, I made one of the biggest changes concerning my health… I went gluten-free. For years I had heard about the trend and had mostly dismissed it as a passing fad among the super-rich and extreme health fanatics, many of whom...
It’s back to school time in our area. As I scroll through the stream of my friends’ Facebook posts with photos of their children dressed for their first day of classes and see the myriad of teacher quotes encouraging teachers about their impact on students’...
It’s funny how it happens…well, really not so much. I’m rolling along, feeling pretty good, getting things done and then BAM, I get hit with a random flare in my fibromyalgia symptoms. During the past few weeks, I’ve been going through my first major flare since completing...
Just what is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, you might ask… According to the Mayo Clinic, “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube.” HBOT has been around for over a century, and you’ve probably heard of it being...