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Finding Your Envelope
The tools for defining limits in ME/CFS and fibromyalgia.

Counting Your Blessings: How Gratitude Improves Your Health
New research shows that people who keep a gratitude journal report fewer symptoms and feel better about their lives.

Dodging Danger: Strategies for Special Events
Three strategies you can use to avoid relapses triggered by vacations, the holidays and other special events.

Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part 1
Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)

Killing Me Softly: FM/CFS & Suicide
Depression is common in long-term illness. This article by Lisa Lorden Myers offers ideas for coping when life seems hopeless.

Strategies for Pain
Medication and self-management approaches to pain relief for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromyalgia (FM).

Sensory Overload: Sources and Strategies
Too much sensory information? Read about causes, treatments and prevention.

The Double Challenge of Stress in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
Why stress is doubly taxing if you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or fibromyalgia, and two approaches to managing it.