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
Visual Journaling
Visual Journaling is part Journal and par Art therapy and that is what makes it quite effective as a process to help us release our inner thoughts and emotions. Art therapy, after all, is simply a process of creativity to express ourselves. Sometimes when we journal it is very linear. I did this. Then this. … Continue reading Visual Journaling
Modes of Self-care
It seems like everybody uses the word self-care to refer to pretty much everything they do for enjoyment. It is a little different when we are chronically ill. Self-care is necessary for wellbeing, yes, but for emotional, mental, and physical quality of life and for even better functionality. Right now we all need to focus … Continue reading Modes of Self-care
Chronic illness: Pandemic stress
There are risk factors to being chronically ill in a high-stress environment and being isolated during the pandemic life. COVID19 brings with it unique external stressors we may have a difficult time adjusting to like we do other stressors. Mental illness Anxiety: Even before COVID-19 hit its shores, the U.S. was a clinically anxious place. According … Continue reading Chronic illness: Pandemic stress
Review: Winnie’s Picks- paint by numbers
“I have been given this product as part of a product review process. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company. Post may contain affiliate links.” So I have started and finished a new project. I will tell you … Continue reading Review: Winnie’s Picks- paint by numbers
Epsom salt baths
I think by far my favourite form of Fibromyalgia self-care is the Epsom salt bath on a bad pain day. This is because it is relaxing and the Epsom salts relax our stiff and sore muscles. I always take baths, I find them soothing. And I always put Epsom salts in there. I will use … Continue reading Epsom salt baths