Pacing

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Controlling Symptoms Through Pacing
How Anne Leppert learned to avoid the cycle of push and crash by pacing herself.

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

Finding and Staying Within My Limits
The strategies Kathy Mero used to find and live within her Energy Envelope so she can live nearly symptom-free.

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

Finding Your Energy Envelope Part 2
How to develop a detailed understanding of your limits. (Second of two articles.)

Key 4 Nurture Yourself with PreEmptive Rest
Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable.

Managing Your Energy Envelope
How to determine your energy profile plus nine strategies for managing your energy.

Minimizing Relapses
Strategies for limiting the frequency and severity of relapses.

Pacing by Numbers Using Your Heart Rate To Stay Inside the Energy Envelope
How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.

Pacing FAQ
Answers to commonly-asked questions about pacing.

Pacing Strategies That Help Me
How Kate Morgan uses rest breaks, logging, a heart rate monitor and other strategies to smooth the CFS roller coaster and avoid relapses.

Pacing What It Is and How to Do It
A series of articles with practical strategies for controlling symptoms and expanding the energy envelope.

Pedometers A Tool for Pacing
Having trouble controlling your symptoms? Consider counting your steps using a pedometer.

PostExertional Malaise
Why a little overdoing can trigger a relapse.

Three Pacing Stories
An introduction to pacing via three success stories.

Using Pacing to Control Relapses & Reduce Symptoms
How Kathy Mero used a set of pacing strategies to reduce relapses and live nearly symptom-free.

Using Targets to Improve Health and Gain Control
A series of small steps leads to dramatic improvement.

Aligning Willpower with Pacing
Prayati has ME/CFS and dysautonomia (POTS). While her heritage (South Asian/Indian) and family support enabled her to cope for decades, joining our Program in 2020 was a turning point that allowed her to start actively managing her illness. She shares her reflections below as part of her journey.