http://womenandfibromyalgia.com Living with an Invisible Dis-ease Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:14:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 12:00:48 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=48 “Self development is a higher duty than self sacrifice”, Elizabeth Stanton As I read more and more about brain mapping and how to change the pain mappings in my brain I am reminded about how intensely I wrote in my book regarding the highly sensitive person (HSP, according to Elaine Aron). This is the ‘empath’, the [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/09/fibromyalgia-goodism-self-sacrificegiving-yourself-away/feed/ 6 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:32:47 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/ “Being a woman is hard work”, Maya Angelou.  There can be little doubt that fibromyalgia has become very prominent as a serious social and personal condition that affects primarily women. In fact, it is said by some that it is an epidemic of great proportions. Loss of work, physical impairments and challenges, intense pain, decreased income [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/01/20/the-stigma-of-fibromyalgia-a-womens-condition/feed/ 5