Reading can be tough with chronic illness: we face concentration and processing issues, pain, low energy & plain old trouble making time. Here are some tricks to help you make reading a part of your life!
Hello and welcome back to a very special, and somewhat belated, New Year post all about how to learn a language with a chronic illness. This is a companion blog post to Episode 4 of the Rest Room podcast. If you’d prefer to listen to the audio version, you can find The Rest Room on … Read more
A guide for people with chronic pain to take the first steps towards a safe and sustainable movement practice.
Hello and welcome back to my new series about understanding movement and exercise when living with chronic pain. Today, we’re going to be talking about barriers to movement. If you want to listen to the podcast version of this post, you can find The Rest Room on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify – and … Read more
You can listen to this blog post as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Hello and welcome to my new series on understanding exercise when living with chronic pain. I’ve worked with the wonderful Claire Campbell from the Physiotherapy Pain Association to create a series of posts which will hopefully give you an insight … Read more
How can people living with existing chronic illness manage their diet when things feel so out of control (and many don’t have access to their usual care?) I interviewed Registered Dietitian, Harriet Smith, who also lives with chronic illness herself, all about ways to manage diet when you’re living with an energy-limiting illness/food restrictions. From … Read more
How can people living with existing chronic pain manage their symptoms when things feel so out of control, and many don’t have access to their usual care? To try and scratch the surface of that very big question, I interviewed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Whitney Scott. She is also a Researcher and Lecturer in Clinical Health Psychology at King’s … Read more
