Fibromyalgia

Lifestyle

Did you know that certain lifestyle habits and situations can significantly impact your condition? Discover how to catch triggers before they become a problem, and simple ways to better manage your symptoms and improve your overall quality of life.

Managing Fibromyalgia Symptoms: Your Essential Guide to the Fibromyalgia Diet

Discover how the fibromyalgia diet can help manage pain and boost energy. Learn what to eat for relief.

Managing Fibromyalgia Weight Gain: Effective Strategies & Insights

Explore some potential causes that may be contributing, how your weight can affect your symptoms, and solutions to manage your weight even with fibromyalgia.

Tired but Wired: Why Am I Tired but Can't Sleep?

Are you very tired but unable to sleep at night? You might be “tired but wired”. Learn about causes and how to deal with tiredness and sleeplessness.

7 Essential Oils For Fibromyalgia: Your Essential Oils Guide to Soothing Chronic Pain

This guide explores seven essential oils with potential benefits for people experiencing fibromyalgia and offers advice on their safe usage.

Alcohol & Fibromyalgia: What You Need to Know for Better Pain Management

In this article, we will explore the research between alcohol and fibromyalgia and how to maintain social drinks without exacerbating the symptoms.

Effective Physical Therapy for Fibromyalgia: Strategies for Managing Pain & Improving Mobility

Explores how physical therapy for fibromyalgia can soothe your discomfort and empower you with strategies to enhance your overall wellbeing.

A Christmas Gift for You – Here Are 50 of Our Favorite Chronic Pain Quotes

In this article, we bring together some of the team’s favorite motivational chronic pain quotes for building strength and resilience.

How to Help Yourself with Our Top 8 Fibromyalgia Self-care Tips

We talk through eight fibromyalgia self-care strategies, why they work and how to get started

How Long Does a Fibromyalgia Flare Last?

This article outlines what fibromyalgia flares feel like, how long they last, how to cope through it and calm your fibromyalgia flare symptoms.

How Do I Know If My Pain System Is Being Overprotective?

If you have fibromyalgia, this article helps you understand nociplastic pain and how the pain system can be retrained to be less protective.

Feeling All the Feels? Turning Towards Your Strong Emotions in 4 Key Steps

This article outlines a method for turning towards strong emotions using the RAIN practice of Recognise, Allow, Investigate and Nurture.

Can Food Be Medicine? Understanding How Your Diet Impacts Your Pain

Diet can impact your pain and here we examine which foods can lower inflammation and improve your mood,

Three Techniques That an Exercise Scientist Recommends for Someone Living with Pain

An exercise scientist provides simple, evidence-based techniques to manage their pain with exercise.

Use the Goldilocks Approach to Support a Loved One Living with Pain

If you love someone living with pain, this article suggest the most balanced approach for supporting them (what works, what doesn't).

Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days?

What is symptom tracking and should I do it? Unpack the pros and cons of tracking your fibromyalgia symptoms, including suggestions on what to include.

When You "Need to Talk" – Planning Difficult Conversations & Explaining Pain

If you need to have a difficult conversation about pain, we provide a road map so you can plan for a great outcome.

You Got the Fibromyalgia Diagnosis – Now What?

Six suggestions for people who have recently received a fibromyalgia diagnosis on ways to respond and what to do after being diagnosed with a chronic condition.

When You Need Help Immediately – Crisis Support Helplines Are There for You

Please reach out for help immediately if you are having suicidal thoughts or in an urgent mental health crisis – helplines and links provided.

Navigating the "New You" Identity with Pain – Gut Wrenching but Necessary

Living with pain can mean facing a new identity and this article discusses why and how to accept and embrace the 'new you'.

Pacing Your Everyday Tasks – How the Tortoise Beats the Hare

Pain often gets in the way of getting things done but let me introduce practical pacing: an evidenced-based approach for pain self-management.

When Pain Comes with You to Work – How to Make Them Play Nicely

Chronic pain impacts every part of your life, including work, so here are some strategies for managing, returning to and even making changes at work.

Keepin’ It Real – Tips for Parenting with Chronic Pain

Practical strategies to support your kids and yourself as you navigate parenting while living with chronic pain.

Get Moving & Grooving. The How & Why of Movement with Pain

Moving when you have chronic pain may seem scary but is an important part of your pain-management journey.

Life as a Fibro Warrior, According to Sonja, Martine & Bianca

It's time to get real, with real life and real people as we turn to some of our inspiring MoreGoodDays® alumni and dig into what it is like to live with fibromyalgia.

Life as a Fibro Warrior, According to Lady Gaga, Selma Blair & Frida Kahlo

This Fibromyalgia Awareness Day we throw a spotlight on an eclectic bunch of celebrities united by something they all have in common.

12 Tips on How to Help Someone Who Lives with Chronic Pain

Watching someone you love in pain can be heartbreaking, but there are many practical, supportive things you can do to help.

Take the Wheel: 9 Ways to Overcome Healing Obstacles & Regain Control

Have you ever thought ‘I know what I should be doing but I’m just not doing it?’ In this article, we look at some common obstacles that might be holding you back in your recovery efforts.

The Remarkable Link Between Pacing & Better Fibromyalgia Management

The link between how you can use gentle pacing for better fibromyalgia management.

Mindful or Mind Full? Making Meditation One of Your Pain-Management Tools

Meditation and mindfulness may seem much too hard for busy and pain-filled days. But we debunk the myths, dispel any hesitation and open your mind to meditation for chronic pain!

Living Well With Fibromyalgia

Using a step-by-step approach, reframing how you think about pain can change how you experience things and your emotional response.

7 No-Nonsense Ways To Live Better With Fibromyalgia

7 tried and tested strategies that you can use to start living better when you have fibromyalgia or chronic pain.

Revealed: How Friends & Family Can Help Loved Ones Living with Fibromyalgia

Practical tips for how friends and family can help their loved ones who are living with fibromyalgia or chronic pain.

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