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What you eat can help your control your pain? My simple tweaks to make this easier.

I have often posted about how eating the right foods can help with chronic pain. So I will start with a quick recap. If you know the science behind your food choices it is much easier to make good choices. It is all about inflammation, which lies behind or worsens much chronic pain. Your immune...

Uncertain times. Some tips to control anxiety and keep pain under control.

We know that anxiety can increase pain and our perception of pain. At the moment we are living in a world situation that feels very unstable, uncertain and indeed dangerous in places, and it makes most of us more anxious than we would usually be. For some of you, this may be leading to a...

Long Covid and Fatigue

When I wrote my book on Long Covid (with Shelia Granger) I dealt with fatigue at some length. I know it is one of the major problems people who are dealing with Long Covid have to face. This week I am going to run through one of the main issues which people have to cope...

A little silver lining in the Covid cloud. New research could point to a breakthrough in what we know about Long Covid

There is not much good to say about the Covid pandemic we have lived with for years now. But there is one thing which I think we can welcome. That is the huge amount of research that is going into Long Covid. This is the post-viral syndrome that is affecting large numbers of people who...

The power of the mind

In my last blog, we saw last week how we can improve our mental attitude and how this can help us live with chronic pain. In this blog, we are going to look at some more direct help. How we can use our minds directly to lessen our pain. So here we go. Understanding chronic...

Managing negative thoughts when you have chronic pain You create thoughts and you can change thoughts

Do you recognise these scenarios? You have pain and you are in; you are tired. A thought comes into your head and will not leave. You begin saying to yourself, I am always tired, there must be something else wrong perhaps the doctor has missed something important. You begin to think you will not be...

OVERCOMING FEAR OF WEARING FACE MASKS

As the Coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, for some people, having to wear a face mask, has seen their anxiety risen to new heights and my office phone is constantly ringing with people wishing to address this issue. Knowing the health benefits doesn’t necessarily make us feel more comfortable about wearing face masks,…

How does eco-therapy help people with chronic pain?

I am always encouraging my clients to get out into nature any time they can. I know it helps them. This is true both when I see people suffering from anxiety, especially as the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic hits us all, and also with my clients who come to me for psychology/hypnotherapy for chronic…

10 Ways For People With Chronic Pain To Take Time Out More Often

We live in a world where people seem to compete to have the busiest lives and don’t like to say no when people ask them to do anything. We manage our chronic pain, work, join clubs and teams, and also balance our family and home lives. It’s no wonder people are under more stress…

People with Chronic Pain- What to do if you are worried about the end of lockdown

It is all change now. After being stuck at home, slowly we are able to go out a bit again. There are some new phrases we are all going to be getting used to over the next weeks as the lockdown begins to ease up. End of lockdown anxiety; going back to work anxiety; re-entry…

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