Helpful Resources

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Introduction: Understanding Movement For Chronic Pain

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 into ...

Moving On From A Wheelchair

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen over the last year or so that I’ve written a few posts about how the biggest unexpected benefit of using a wheelchair (for me) was that it enabled me to save energy which I could spend on getting physically ...

Video: How To Manage Diet With Chronic Illness

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 ...

Video: Managing Chronic Pain During COVID-19

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 ...

Q&A: Therapy For Chronic Illness

As you probably know, one of the things I’m trying to do this year is create resources and guides for people living with chronic illness. From how to pace to understanding subluxations and dislocations, I want to provide information that will help ...

Q&A: Pacing & Chronic lllness

After the wonderful response to my last post all about what I learned at a Pacing Masterclass with Occupational Therapist, Jo Southall, I’m delighted to be able to share more information that I hope will help other people who haven’t had ...

I Did A Pacing Masterclass

Pacing…oh where to start? Pacing is one of those phrases that’s impossible to ignore if you’re any way involved in the chronic illness sphere. Scratch that, if you’ve seen any kind of medical professional about a chronic illness ...