How To Ideas
Achieving Stability Through Pacing
Pacing is often recommended as a strategy for gaining control of symptoms and bringing stability. But how do you do it? This article describes what students have found helpful.
Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part I
Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part II
Developing an detailed understanding your limits.
Five Ways to Expand Your Energy
Envelope
How
to expand your activity level without increasing symptoms.
Living
Within Limits
Living
within your energy envelope offers an alternative to repeated cycles
of push and crash.
Nurture Yourself with Scheduled Rests
Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable.
Pacing:
A Young Person's View
Guest author Ingebjorg Dahl shows you
how to use pacing to smooth out the CFIDS roller coaster.
Pacing:
An Alternative to Push and Crash
Pacing
provides a way to live a more stable and predictable life.
Pacing Success Stories
Expanding My
Envelope: How I Balanced Work and CFIDS
CFS patient Kristin Scherger describes how she expanded
her energy envelope by changing careers.
Gaining
Control by Understanding My Envelope
Bruce Campbell describes how a developing a detailed
understanding his limits enabled him to control his symptoms and eventually
expand his limits.
Getting
the Most from Limited Energy
How Nancy Fortner uses routines to improve her
quality of life.
How I Gained Hope and Control: Pacing for the Bedbound
Patient
Geraldine Blackman describes how her use of pacing
brought structure and purpose to her life.
How I Use
Pacing to Manage CFS
Bianca
Veness's seven pacing strategies.
How I Use Routine to
Successfully Manage Fibromyalgia
Read how fibromyalgia patient Joan Buchman uses
routine to control symptoms.
Living Within My
Envelope: A How-To Story
CFS patient JoWynn Johns describes how she
reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and
honoring her body’s limits.
Making a NOT TO DO
List
One way to improve quality of life is by having a NOT TO DO list,
suggests guest author Eunice Beck.
My Energy
Bank Account
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki
Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.
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