How I learnt to stop worrying and relearnt to cycle
There’s a brief moment in time, not long after you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness that you think your life is over. All you had to judge your worth and your success in life was your experiences...
View ArticleCycling with endometriosis – yes you can get on your bike with chronic pain
When I’ve spent the last five years of my life explaining that I am in daily pain, I can tell people are thinking: If your pain is so bad how come you can manage to cycle every day? The answer doesn’t...
View ArticleHow knitting helps me with my chronic pain and fatigue
Around the time I started cycling to help my endometriosis. I realised that in order for cycling to work I also needed a low energy activity to use for the days or moments where I couldn’t cycle,...
View ArticleHow to learn a new language while you have a long term illness
I am now several several years into living with long term illness. I’ve come to accept it’s presence in my life, but this has come at the cost of losing a little bit of my independence and freedom. I...
View ArticleIf we’re not happy, we have to change things
As some of you may know I met Ed Miliband last week. He came into my workplace (which was entirely unexpected) and I got the opportunity to ask him some questions about what the Labour party’s plans...
View ArticleHow to manage having too much to do (with chronic pain)
On any given day I always have too much to do. There are more things to accomplish than I have hours of the day. This was a problem for me before I got sick, but well people aren’t always forgiving...
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