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/2010/01/28/howard-zinn/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/01/28/howard-zinn/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:27:08 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=704 “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness…”, Howard Zinn The death of Howard Zinn yesterday is a sad loss. He has had a profound impact upon me. I [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/01/28/howard-zinn/feed/ 1 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/15/fibromyalgia-suffering-and-struggling/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/15/fibromyalgia-suffering-and-struggling/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:25:26 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=479 “What is required is a willingness to look deeply at one’s present moments, no matter what they hold, in a spirit of generosity, kindness toward oneself, and openness toward what might be possible” Jon Kabat-Zinn I’m told that pain cannot be alleviated with massage or other kinds of body work(?); massages may feel good but [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/15/fibromyalgia-suffering-and-struggling/feed/ 2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 15:20:30 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=49 “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn”, Gloria Steinem Women are often prone to say that we are experts on multi-tasking whereas men are more linear and less circular in their thinking. This of course suggests then, if this is accurate, that it is more difficult [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/05/17/fibromyalgia-and-multi-tasking-a-womans-nemesis/feed/ 4 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:07 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=44 “Memory, the warder of the brain”, William Shakespeare This is it!!! In my view this is the most significant in-sight I have had about the pain of fibromyalgia. It has been a long and interesting journey beginning with my book in which I laid the foundation about why women are more prone to developing FMS and my [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/03/25/fibromyalgia-the-pain-is-in-the-brain/feed/ 6 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/12/01/fibromyalgia-and-buddhist-practice-of-tonglin/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/12/01/fibromyalgia-and-buddhist-practice-of-tonglin/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:01:42 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=38 ” There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”, Leonard Cohen While I have read about and practiced (somewhat… and not diligently), mindfulness meditation, I have not often successfully been able to ‘let go’ of the pain messages from my brain, which seems to be from where anxiety and stress originates. [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2008/12/01/fibromyalgia-and-buddhist-practice-of-tonglin/feed/ 7