The boatload of recovery
Just as multiple factors often are involved when one falls ill with ME/CFS (the overloaded boat), the process of recovery also includes multiple factors, methods, and variables to re-build health. The...
22 Jun 20209min
We are all messed up
Once we begin to do work on our own patterns and issues, we can feel like we're more "messed up" than other people - Alex reminds us that everyody has issues, but not everyone is looking at them or wo...
7 Apr 20208min
You can't fill up someone else's emotional well
Energy depleting relationships tend to follow a pattern of having to constantly support or hold up another person in a co-dependent relationship. Helper types tend to use their energy attending to oth...
31 Mar 20209min
The body's innate wisdom
Being chronically ill can mean all of our conscious attention is usually on the things that are not working. Alex gives the suggestion to also give mindful attention to the things in the body that are...
24 Mar 20209min
5 stages of meeting our needs
Alex Howard discusses understanding our own needs, including emotional needs, and how we might look to get those needs met. Alex discusses the tendency for Helper types to put other people's needs fir...
17 Mar 202010min
The importance of practices
Following up on the importance of the basics, Alex discusses the importance of practices - the practical activities we need on a day to day basis to encourage the recovery process. He also emphasizes ...
10 Mar 202011min
The importance of the basics
Alex talks about the importance of the fundamental basics of recovery in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - deep rest, staying in a healing state, and fundamental nutritional basics. After we start to recover...
4 Mar 202010min
Episode 68 - Two types of pacing
Alex mentions a simplified view of two different kinds of pacing based on data and rational planning, versus the more intuitive body based way of pacing in the moment and what might be better for a ce...
28 Jan 20209min
