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Managing your pain starts with learning what works for you, your body and your lifestyle. That’s why my blog is about more than techniques for managing pain. Here you’ll also find strategies for coping with the emotional and social aspects too.

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Chronic Illness Exercise – Do you mourn your previous regime?
Hypermobility, Lifestyle & Wellbeing

July 13th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Chronic Illness Exercise – Do you mourn your previous regime?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes What’s your relationship with exercise? Has it changed over the years? Did a chronic illness diagnosis change your approach?

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Has the exercise message been movement at any cost?
Hypermobility

June 8th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Has the exercise message been movement at any cost?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Have you ever felt the message was ‘movement at any cost? I was speaking with a client recently who felt this was very much the message she had always perceived. We need to exercise, you must do it every day no matter what, even if it takes an hour or more. Regardless of how you feel or what the body is telling you. And if you don’t do them, you are failing or lazy. This is not the way forward. It is not healthy physically or mentally.

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The Lonely Chronic Illness Life
Chronic Pain, Lifestyle & Wellbeing

May 19th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

The Lonely Chronic Illness Life

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Living with a chronic illness can sometimes be lonely. It can be difficult for friends and family to really understand how we are feeling and why we don’t ‘get better’. It drives me crazy when people say ‘you just need a good night sleep’ – like it’s a miracle cure.

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What people don’t see when you live with a chronic illness
Chronic Pain, Lifestyle & Wellbeing

April 18th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

What people don’t see when you live with a chronic illness

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes What’s it like when you go out out – if you do go out out? Is there a lot of preparation and organisation involved?

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Raising EDS Awareness with Bob and Brad
Chronic Pain, Hypermobility

March 21st, 2022 | Estimated reading time: < 1 minutes

Raising EDS Awareness with Bob and Brad

Estimated reading time: < 1 minute I am delighted to have teamed up with the most famous physical therapists on the internet (in their opinion of course) – Bob and Brad. If you know them, the theme tune to their famous YouTube channel is probably running through your head right now.

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EDS UK Community Champion Award Winner
Hypermobility

February 17th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: < 1 minutes

EDS UK Community Champion Award Winner

Estimated reading time: < 1 minute I’m super proud and delighted to receive the Community Champion Award fromy Ehlers-Danlos Support UK. Thank you to Anne Lavery and Nikki Casey Eds for a lovely day when I was presented with my award.

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Living with Ehlers-Danlos – A Life in Two Halves
Chronic Pain, Hypermobility, Lifestyle & Wellbeing

January 25th, 2022 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Living with Ehlers-Danlos – A Life in Two Halves

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Like many of us, I used to see my life in two halves. Pre motherhood, I lived with symptoms on a daily basis like muscular pain, daily migraines, digestive issues (diagnosed as IBS aged 12). I thought everyone had issues every day.

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Hypermobility Flare-Up Management
Chronic Pain, Hypermobility

November 18th, 2021 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Hypermobility Flare-Up Management

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Can we ever really be prepared for a flare-up? And when they arrive, how do we manage them? They can be as unpredictable as the rain. You dress for sun and a sudden downpour arrives. Sometimes we definitely know rain is coming and we can pack an umbrella but sometimes rain, like a flare-up, can appear when the sky seemed so blue. We just weren’t expecting it.

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Feeling Accepted With A Chronic Illness
Chronic Pain, EDS, Hypermobility

October 13th, 2021 | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Feeling Accepted With A Chronic Illness

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes When I attended my first EDS The Ehlers-Danlos Society conference in Las Vegas in 2017, around 50% of my clients had EDS and hypermobility with pain. I was kindly invited to speak by Lara Bloom CEO of The EDS Society.  I had just released the first online hypermobility course, Strengthen Your Hypermobile Core.

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The Zebra Club APP

Hypermobility safe, affordable and effective movement, education and community in the comfort of your own home.

The Zebra Club app is a programme based on the Integral Movement Method. In this programme I will carefully guide you through safe exercises to manage your pain.

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