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25 Reasons Why Ive Improved
ME/CFS and FM patient Bobbie Brown used many coping techniques to increase her functional level significantly.

Acceptance Discipline & Hope A Story of Recovery from CFIDS
Dean Anderson's account of how he used self-help in his successful eight-year struggle to recover from ME/CFS.

Adapting to Fibromyalgia
By focusing on the many practical things she could do to feel better, Jana Murrell-Maxfield made a successful adaptation to fibromyalgia.

Climbing Back from Severe MECFS
How Pris Campbell emerged from the deep hole of severe ME/CFS and also found a new identity as a writer.

Coming to Terms with a Life I Didnt Plan
Patti Schmidt explains how she worked through grief to learn how to live with her illness.

Dancing with the Dragon
How Beatrice Desper used pacing, exercise and support to improve from 10% of normal to 50% and beyond.

Exercising Safely Using Nano Steps
After many failures, one person finds a successful approach to exercise using two simple principles.

Expanding My Envelope How I Balanced Work and CFS
Kristin Scherger describes how she was able to expand her energy envelope by changing careers.

From Doing to Being My Journey to Healing
Yvonne Bond's account of how her decision to stop working led to a new and better life.

How I Created a Good Life with Fibromyalgia
Joan Buchman's account of how lifestyle changes and mental adjustments led to a fulfilling life with chronic illness.

How I Gained Hope and Control Pacing for the Bedbound Patient
Geraldine Blackman describes how her use of pacing brought structure and purpose to her life.

How I Improved from Near Bedbound to 80 Part 1
How Phoebe Love's use of pacing, change of diet, and managing stress and emotions to return to near normal.

How I Improved from Near Bedbound to 80 Part 2
How Phoebe Love used change of diet, and managing stress and emotions to return to near normal.

How I Manage My Many Energy Envelopes
How one person has experienced dramatic improvement by managing her various Energy Envelopes.

How I Use Pacing to Manage MECFS
Bianca Veness's seven pacing strategies.

How I Used Rest to Escape Push and Crash
How Kate Morgan uses five types of rest to avoid the cycle of push and crash.

Learning to Manage Fibromyalgia
Getting a diagnosis of FM after more than two decades triggered a process of change that led to a greatly improved quality of life.

Limits Logging and Better Health
How Elena Rosen used experimentation and record keeping to trigger improvement from 25% of normal to 98%.

Living with Fibromyalgia What Helps Me
Fibromyangia patient Kathy Gamble describes the many strategies she used to create a good life with FM.

Living Within My Envelope A HowTo Story
JoWynn Johns describes how she reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and honoring her body's limits.

My Energy Bank Account
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.

Physical and Psychological Recovery from MECFS
How ME/CFS patient Margaret Fergusson increased her functional level from 15% to 70%.

SelfSabotage and Getting Back on Track
Kathy Mero describes how she discovered the ways she makes her symptoms worse and then how to avoid some relapses and minimize others.

Step by Step Improvement
How Dianne Timbers used tiny steps to improve, starting from being severely bed-bound.

The Life or Death Decision That Improved My Attitude and Quality of Life in Surprising Ways
How a strange twist of fate led to surprising improvements in attitude and quality of life.

Third Times a Charm How I Learned to Pace Myself
It took three tries, but Rosemary Rowlands learned to use pacing to gain stability, reduce her symptoms and expand her activity level.

Using SelfHelp to Recover from CFIDS
The recovery story of our founder, Bruce Campbell.

Vivir con Fibromialgia lo que me ayuda
Spanish version of Kathy Gamble's success story, in which she describes the many strategies she used to create a good life with fibromyalgia.