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/2011/12/04/fibromyalgia-and-happiness/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/12/04/fibromyalgia-and-happiness/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:37:32 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1298 “The many different categories of happiness and suffering can be divided broadly into physical pleasure and suffering; and mental pleasure and suffering. The latter, the experiences of the mind, are more important than those of the body”, The Dalai Lama The  book by Dr.Rick Hansen exemplifies all that I have written about in the past [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/12/04/fibromyalgia-and-happiness/feed/ 2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/10/09/fibromyalgia-and-soundsnoises-misophonia/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/10/09/fibromyalgia-and-soundsnoises-misophonia/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:25:17 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1271 “One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter,complete silence“, Andre Kostelanetz There is a new (at least to me) term called “misophonia” (Wednesday, September 7, 2001 , Life section, The Globe and Mail) in which sounds can cause severe reactions in people ( article written by Joyce Cohen). [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/10/09/fibromyalgia-and-soundsnoises-misophonia/feed/ 13 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/09/28/fibromyalgia-and-night-time-traumas/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/09/28/fibromyalgia-and-night-time-traumas/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:15:37 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1266 “In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race-never quite sane in the night”, Mark Twain My father died at 93 last week. My mother, also 93, is in a state of extreme shock [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/09/28/fibromyalgia-and-night-time-traumas/feed/ 0 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/08/23/hope/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/08/23/hope/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:35:11 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1259 “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world” , Jack Layton   Yesterday, the Canadian leader of the New Democratic Party died at the age of 61 years. He was my hero. His [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/08/23/hope/feed/ 0 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/26/linking-together-the-causes-of-fibromyalgia/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/26/linking-together-the-causes-of-fibromyalgia/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:54:17 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1243 “The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response “, Daniel Goleman. Just as I figured several years ago…it wouldn’t take long before others would finally give up searching for viral/bacterial/hormonal or other CAUSES for fibromyalgia and agree [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/26/linking-together-the-causes-of-fibromyalgia/feed/ 9 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/12/fibromyalgia-and-violence/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/12/fibromyalgia-and-violence/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:49:45 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1218 ” Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit” , Martin Luther King, Jr. Violence can be defined in many ways. Anger that is at its peak: it can be in the forms of shouting, yelling, hitting, sexual and/ or physical and /or emotional abuse, throwing things, or any [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/07/12/fibromyalgia-and-violence/feed/ 2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/06/03/fibromyalgia-and-the-sugar-addiction/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/06/03/fibromyalgia-and-the-sugar-addiction/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:53:05 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1177 “If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned” , John Yudkin This is my 79th post on fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue and I often wonder what I [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/06/03/fibromyalgia-and-the-sugar-addiction/feed/ 10 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/05/18/fibromyalgia-and-pain-management-strategies/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/05/18/fibromyalgia-and-pain-management-strategies/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 22:45:56 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1186 ” These are exciting and challenging times for the manual therapy professions. I believe that the pain science world is handing extremely valuable information to clinicians. We now have a greater understanding of the behaviour of pain states and we are becoming aware of the molecular targets of manual therapy” , David S. Butler Dear [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/05/18/fibromyalgia-and-pain-management-strategies/feed/ 8 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/03/12/fibromyalgia-pseudo-science-and-woo-woo/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/03/12/fibromyalgia-pseudo-science-and-woo-woo/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:22:47 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1154 “Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you”, Neil de Grasse Tyson There are numerous claims made by those who practice or have beliefs in woo woo (irrational ideas based upon lack of scientific evidence) about various concoctions, herbs, homeopathic solutions (sugar pills) and other [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/03/12/fibromyalgia-pseudo-science-and-woo-woo/feed/ 0 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/02/15/fibromyalgia-accentuate-the-positive/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/02/15/fibromyalgia-accentuate-the-positive/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:51:18 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1138 “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”, George Bernard Shaw Lately I have been reading about play and how important it is to adult life, and not just for children. Dr. Stuart Brown, a leading expert on play and the brain says that humour, games,roughhousing, flirtation and [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2011/02/15/fibromyalgia-accentuate-the-positive/feed/ 5