baby steps

Hello and welcome to my recovery story!welcomea I don't have a dramatic “and then one day I was cured” tale to tell. For a long time I was bedridden and housebound. 🛌 🏠 I suffered a myriad of different symptoms - you name it and I probably experienced it - including severe widespread muscle...

This video below of Raelan Agle interviewing Dr David Mickel of 'Mickel Therapy' came into my YouTube feed a couple of days ago and I have been profoundly wowed by it, so I intend to practise Mickel Therapy to see if it will help me in the long term. I was impressed because I took on board the...

Hi, everyone! I put together the following for myself and am starting to implement it as, although vastly improved from being bedridden and functioning pretty well by comparison these days, I felt in need of a plan to incorporate and make a daily habit of giving myself 'messages of safety' to...

Being grandiose-oriented and very hard on myself, I’m always looking for the big ways to get better. But a couple friends of mine on this forum have encouraged me to see the value in incremental steps, or baby steps. Standing up to cook. Can you do it for 5 minutes? That counts as exercise! Can...

I started exercising about a month ago. I used everything I have to drum up the strength and determination to do it. I thought my symptoms might flare, so I had avoided it. But, it turned out to not be so bad. And now I love it! Now, I’m going to build on that success and use graduated exposure...