We cannot think our conditions away - we cannot 'positive vibes' or yoga or meditate them away - they are not figments of our imagination, or lifestyle failings. 

This week I talk about acceptance - many of the tips I share in this podcast are for self care / managing mental health / adjustments we can make in lifestyle or mindset etc. This is to support and ease our experience of chronic illness, NOT as a cure, or based on a belief that the origins of the illness are in the mind/lifestyle failings. 

It's important to take care of ourselves in lots of different ways - managing a chronic illness is challenging, and a strain on our mental, emotional and physical health - on TOP of the 'base' symptoms of our conditions. But I want to take today to also pause and remind ourselves that in our quest for easing/managing our fatigue, we can often get caught up and send backhanded messages to ourselves that we aren't good enough as we are.
Some days we need to consciously take the decision to accept how we feel, instead of constantly fight it / tweak it / change it, at the detriment of our actual experience of life. 

We can be sleepy zombie babes, and still do stuff (within reason/not pushing ourselves) - we don't have to wait for "good days" to be whole people.

Also featuring a poem from @rubyetc and a Tweet from @Wheelsofsteer and a call-out for next week's episode: Dating, with a chronic condition.


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