Archive for the ‘Relaxation’ Category

Quote of the day: Laughter

“We are able to laugh when we achieve detach­ment, if only for a moment.“ –May Sar­ton I do at least a dozen silly things every day, thanks in part to fibro fog. The sooner I let go of my anger and frus­tra­tion and laugh at myself, the sooner my stress lev­els go back down, allowing […]

December 5, 2006   Posted in: Quotations, Relaxation  5 Comments

Episode 4

Episode 4 The first episode in the new, shorter for­mat, recorded on my very own micro­phone. Thank you for your patience in wait­ing for it! Most of today’s show is about audio enter­tain­ment and infor­ma­tion, which is great when the fatigue is so bad that lis­ten­ing is one of the few things we can do. Links: Audio […]

Fibrant Liv­ing 4: Audio Enter­tain­ment Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

October 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Podcast, Relaxation, Resources  No Comments

Flowers Fighting Fibromyalgia!

Orig­i­nally uploaded by ChatOmbre. This is a one flower of the lovely bou­quet in my liv­ing room right now. Sam knows how much I value fresh flow­ers, so he usu­ally brings them to me every week or two. Katie knows that I adore them, so she pho­tographs them, allow­ing me to enjoy them even longer. […]

August 5, 2006   Posted in: Beauty, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Relaxation  2 Comments

Back to school time!

In the US, par­ents and stu­dents are rush­ing about prepar­ing for the begin­ning of fall classes. Tra­di­tion­ally, that involves shop­ping for new cloth­ing and sup­plies from pen­cils to com­put­ers. Teens and young adults are leav­ing home for col­lege dorms. The whole endeavor devours money, time and energy. Traf­fic snarls and tem­pers fray. If we had […]

August 1, 2006   Posted in: Relaxation  No Comments

Fibrant Living Podcast #1

In honor of FMS/CFS Aware­ness Day 2006, here’s the very first Fibrant Liv­ing pod­cast! Fibrant Liv­ing Pod­cast #1 This is my first episode, and here are some links you may want to fol­low after lis­ten­ing to the show. Fibro­mayl­gia Aware Fibromyal­gia Net­work News Fibromyal­gia Fron­tiers Arthri­tis Today What are the bio­log­i­cal effects of acute stress? This week’s music was provided […]

Fibrant Liv­ing 1: Intro­duc­ing Fibrant Liv­ing! Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

May 12, 2006   Posted in: Pain, Podcast, Relaxation  No Comments