http://womenandfibromyalgia.com Living with an Invisible Dis-ease Thu, 10 May 2012 18:56:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:58:13 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1050 “When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel“, David D. Burns I have been pondering of late how I can change the nature of this website from that which focusses on symptoms and instead place more emphasis on neuroplasticity in action. Now as I write this 70th blog, for [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/27/fibromyalgia-and-a-joyful-brain/feed/ 10 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/07/fibromyalgia-and-aging/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/07/fibromyalgia-and-aging/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:24:26 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=1042 “Life has got to be lived-that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say that advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that “this,too, shall pass!”, Eleanor Roosevelt In my book I write about the confusion in the research regarding whether or not fibromyalgia improves (or not) with aging. I [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/10/07/fibromyalgia-and-aging/feed/ 10 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 14:03:06 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=927 “Every man (sic) can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain”, Santiago Ramon Cajal I have before me books, newspaper clippings, magazines that speak to the phenomenal advances that are occurring in the area of brain science and remapping the brain. Just this week I have read in our Canadian newspaper [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2010/05/29/changing-the-brainrewiring-the-braintraining-the-brain-managing-fibromyalgia/feed/ 2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/28/defining-fibromyalgia/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/28/defining-fibromyalgia/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:58:59 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=503 “Far more than you may realize, your experience, your world, and even your self are the creations of what you focus on”, Winifred Gallagher I have long been searching for the exact definition of fibromyalgia given that I have written so much and spoken so often about the various systems that are compromised within the body [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/28/defining-fibromyalgia/feed/ 2 http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/18/fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-and-the-anxiety-prone-brain/ http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/18/fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-and-the-anxiety-prone-brain/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:47:06 +0000 Barbara Keddy http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/?p=492 ” The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought”, Robin Marantz Henig An article in the NewYork Times Magazine, October 4, 2009 by Robin Marantz Henig, entitled Understanding the Anxious Mind has led me to speculate about the anxious, highly reactive, overly sensitive temperaments of those of us with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndromes. While I [...]]]> http://womenandfibromyalgia.com/2009/10/18/fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-and-the-anxiety-prone-brain/feed/ 9 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/ 8