I was diganosed with M.E in July of this year. After speaking to, and reading about, a number of fellow creative types who also deal with long-term health problems, I have decide to start a blog to document how I manage my creativity along with my day-to-day symptoms, and other things that go on in my life too. I hope I can help myself and others by using this blog as a creative, cathartic process and a diary of my journey back to health.
It has taken me a long time to come to terms with the fact that there was something majorly wrong with my health, and to finally take the steps to start dealing with it. I have been in denial for a while, and this has almost exacerbated the problem. It was not doing my health any good to almost be "fighting" with myself, and I was getting very frustrated and angry.
On Monday, I visited my local health food shop and experienced some sort of "cosmic ordering". I had gone into the shop with the intention of getting something to help me sleep, and ended up having a very long conversation with the very lovely Julia who told me I had to learn to become my own best friend. It turned out she had also suffered from M.E, and also "come out the other end". This gave me a new hope and optimism, and showed me that struggling against my condition will not make me better, but working with it wil
I am now taking daily homeopathic and whole food supplements, and incorporating lots of antioxidant-rich and immune system-boosting foods into my diet. More importantly, I am taking more notice of what my body is saying to me instead of arguing with it.
I graduated from university over 5 years ago with a degree in illustration; since then (well, since as long as I can remember actually) I have been striving to make a career from my art. I have a job which pays the bills; it's a means to an end, but it's in no way related to what I essentially want to do with my life.
It can be very frustrating to WANT to create, to WANT to be proactive, and yet not have the physical or mental energy to be able to DO anything about it. I hope some readers of this can relate to the way I feel, I want to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I hope this blog can be a channel for me to express my feelings about how things will improve for me from now on, and how I manage everything on a daily basis.
I hope you will enjoy reading as much as I hope to enjoy blogging.
Jen :o) x
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Hello world!
I was diganosed with M.E in July of this year. After speaking to, and reading about, a number of fellow creative types who also deal with long-term health problems, I have decide to start a blog to document how I manage my creativity along with my day-to-day symptoms, and other things that go on in my life too. I hope I can help myself and others by using this blog as a creative, cathartic process and a diary of my journey back to health.
It has taken me a long time to come to terms with the fact that there was something majorly wrong with my health, and to finally take the steps to start dealing with it. I have been in denial for a while, and this has almost exacerbated the problem. It was not doing my health any good to almost be "fighting" with myself, and I was getting very frustrated and angry.
On Monday, I visited my local health food shop and experienced some sort of "cosmic ordering". I had gone into the shop with the intention of getting something to help me sleep, and ended up having a very long conversation with the very lovely Julia who told me I had to learn to become my own best friend. It turned out she had also suffered from M.E, and also "come out the other end". This gave me a new hope and optimism, and showed me that struggling against my condition will not make me better, but working with it wil
I am now taking daily homeopathic and whole food supplements, and incorporating lots of antioxidant-rich and immune system-boosting foods into my diet. More importantly, I am taking more notice of what my body is saying to me instead of arguing with it.
I graduated from university over 5 years ago with a degree in illustration; since then (well, since as long as I can remember actually) I have been striving to make a career from my art. I have a job which pays the bills; it's a means to an end, but it's in no way related to what I essentially want to do with my life.
It can be very frustrating to WANT to create, to WANT to be proactive, and yet not have the physical or mental energy to be able to DO anything about it. I hope some readers of this can relate to the way I feel, I want to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I hope this blog can be a channel for me to express my feelings about how things will improve for me from now on, and how I manage everything on a daily basis.
I hope you will enjoy reading as much as I hope to enjoy blogging.
Jen :o) x
It has taken me a long time to come to terms with the fact that there was something majorly wrong with my health, and to finally take the steps to start dealing with it. I have been in denial for a while, and this has almost exacerbated the problem. It was not doing my health any good to almost be "fighting" with myself, and I was getting very frustrated and angry.
On Monday, I visited my local health food shop and experienced some sort of "cosmic ordering". I had gone into the shop with the intention of getting something to help me sleep, and ended up having a very long conversation with the very lovely Julia who told me I had to learn to become my own best friend. It turned out she had also suffered from M.E, and also "come out the other end". This gave me a new hope and optimism, and showed me that struggling against my condition will not make me better, but working with it wil
I am now taking daily homeopathic and whole food supplements, and incorporating lots of antioxidant-rich and immune system-boosting foods into my diet. More importantly, I am taking more notice of what my body is saying to me instead of arguing with it.
I graduated from university over 5 years ago with a degree in illustration; since then (well, since as long as I can remember actually) I have been striving to make a career from my art. I have a job which pays the bills; it's a means to an end, but it's in no way related to what I essentially want to do with my life.
It can be very frustrating to WANT to create, to WANT to be proactive, and yet not have the physical or mental energy to be able to DO anything about it. I hope some readers of this can relate to the way I feel, I want to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I hope this blog can be a channel for me to express my feelings about how things will improve for me from now on, and how I manage everything on a daily basis.
I hope you will enjoy reading as much as I hope to enjoy blogging.
Jen :o) x
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