Nikki app, chronic illness, chronic pain, complementary/alternative treatments, coping, lifestyle

Beneficial free chronic illness management apps

So lately I have been digging around for some useful apps I can use regularly for specific lifestyle/chronic illness management reasons. I recently blogged about the Time Planner app I found and am using lately. Now I am going to share some more beneficial apps for alternative chronic illness management. I was just digging around … Continue reading Beneficial free chronic illness management apps

Nikki chronic illness, chronic pain, complementary/alternative treatments, music, wellbeing

Benefits of Bilateral Beats

Basically, bilateral beats are when you listen to beats of two slightly different frequencies at the same time- therefore, it is only actually effective if you are listening with devices like headphones and earphones. Usually combined with Isochronic tones- which is the beat that’s like a rhythmic pulse used for brain wave entrainment. The idea … Continue reading Benefits of Bilateral Beats

Nikki chronic illness, chronic pain, complementary/alternative treatments, coping, wellbeing

Pursuing better well-being with Mayv and developing healthy habits

“I have been given this product as part of a product review. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company." I started using the Mayv app every single day to see what it would do to help improve my overall … Continue reading Pursuing better well-being with Mayv and developing healthy habits

Nikki complementary/alternative treatments, coping with FM, fibromyalgia, leisure and social

Fibromyalgia: catastrophizing and mindfulness in women

I was excellent a catastrophizing. It was a skill. A very bad skill but I also have Major Depressive Disorder so it was a skill I was inclined to from MDD and fibromyalgia pain and migraine pain. I went to a pain clinic for the fibromyalgia and chronic migraines and there I saw a psychologist … Continue reading Fibromyalgia: catastrophizing and mindfulness in women