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Fred Friedberg’s Seven-Step Protocol for Treating CFS & FM
A review of Fred Friedberg's book on using lifestyle change to treat fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Learning to Manage Pain
A review of Margaret Caudill's book "Managing Pain Before It Manages You."
Lessons from a Recovery Story
A review of Martha Kilcoyne's book "Defeat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome."
Third Time's 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.
Acres of Diamonds
Introduction to a powerful treatment for CFS and FM.
Two Pacing Success Stories
How two CFS patients used pacing to control symptoms, improve quality of life and, in one case, recover.
How to Enjoy Special Events and Minimize the Price
Tips for vacations, holiday celebrations and other special events. Also, the special event worksheet.
Achieving Consistency in Pacing
Nine ideas for how to succeed at pacing.
Practicing the Pacing Lifestyle
How to create daily and weekly plans. Also the Energy Bank Account and Bowl of Marbles.
Reducing Symptoms with Planned Rest
How to make life more stable by using scheduled rest.
Learning Pacing Strategies
Nine ways to reduce symptoms by adapting to the limits imposed by illness.
Finding Your Limits
How to define your Energy Envelope. (First in an 8 part series on pacing.)
Why Do Some People Not Get Better?
Well-known CFS/FM physician Dr. Charles Lapp offers some answers and some strategies.
From Defiance to Discipline: How I Found Freedom Through Acceptance and Adaptation
How Bianca Veness learned to manage her CFS by listening to her body.
From Hare to Tortoise: How I Found Freedom (and Improved My Life) by Accepting My Limits
How Bianca Veness gained control of her life by living within her limits.
My Energy Bank Account
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.
Strengthening Intimacy: Six Strategies That Help
Strategies for greater intimacy and improved sex.
Three Forms of Support
Support comes in many forms.
Smoothing the Emotional Roller Coaster
Taming the feelings triggered by ME/CFS.
Rebuilding Life in the Face of Loss
How Bruce Campbell moved through denial to acceptance and finally to new meaning and a new life.
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