Fibromyalgia Wellness Choices

Fibromyalgia Wellness Choices ✅ Empowering women to break free from the Groundhog Day cycle - reclaim your life and "Flourish with Fibro"

17/06/2026

I bottled it!!! Do you have a strategy you can share

17/06/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗺𝘆𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁: a good day can be just as confusing as a bad one. 💜

You wake up. You feel... almost normal. Energy. Less pain. Clear head.

And instead of just enjoying it, your brain immediately starts doing one of two things.

Either: "Quick — do everything before this disappears." Followed, inevitably, by a crash in a day or two.

Or: "Wait... does this mean I'm better? Was it never that bad? Have I been making this up?"

Neither of those reactions is your fault. They're completely understandable responses to a condition that doesn't behave in straight lines.

But here's what I want you to know. A good day doesn't mean you're cured, and it doesn't mean your bad days weren't real. Fibromyalgia fluctuates. That's not inconsistency in you — it's just what this condition does.

A good day is just a good day. It's allowed to just be that. You're allowed to enjoy it without using it as evidence for or against yourself.

Anyone else recognise this? The good-day confusion is so real. 👇

16/06/2026

𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲. 💜

"Push through it" might be the worst advice anyone with fibromyalgia has ever been given.

I know it comes from a good place, usually. People mean "don't give up" or "you can do hard things." And yes — you absolutely can do hard things. You do them every single day.

But "pushing through" a flare isn't resilience. It's borrowing energy from tomorrow, with interest.

Every time you override your body's signals to keep going — because you "should," because other people are waiting, because you don't want to let anyone down — you're not proving your strength. You're writing a cheque that your nervous system is going to cash later, usually at the worst possible moment.

Real strength with fibromyalgia often looks like the opposite of what we've been taught. It looks like stopping. Saying no. Sitting down in the middle of something important because your body said enough.

That's not weakness. That IS the strength.

Has "pushing through" ever actually helped you — or has it always come back to bite you? Be honest. 👇

15/06/2026

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆. 💜

If you have fibromyalgia, you've probably had this thought a hundred times. "It hurts this much — something must be really wrong."

And then the scans come back clear. The bloods are normal. And you're left feeling like either you're imagining it, or the tests are missing something huge.

Here's the truth nobody explains properly: fibromyalgia pain is real, but it isn't always a direct signal of tissue damage. It's your nervous system's alarm system, turned up far louder than it needs to be.

That doesn't mean the pain isn't real. It is. Completely real. But it means "more pain" doesn't always mean "more damage" - and "less pain" doesn't mean you're suddenly cured.

Once I understood that, I stopped panicking every time I had a bad flare. Because I knew it wasn't a sign my body was falling apart. It was my alarm system being too loud, not my house being on fire.

Does this change how you think about your pain? Tell me below. 👇

15/06/2026

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗺𝘆𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮?

My god, I am absolutely exhausted. Been up since the crack of dawn, hardly slept, brain completely refusing to switch off.

Because tomorrow I'm going in for an operation. And I'm not going to lie. I'm bricking it.

Which is daft, because it's not my first rodeo with a general anaesthetic. But that's exactly the problem. I know what it does to my fibro, and that knowledge is sitting really heavy tonight.

My triggers have always been emotional or physical trauma. I believe my fibromyalgia started after a parachute accident in 1996.
My hysterectomy in 2024 caused the second worst flare of my life and knocked me back for six months. Six months is still a long time, but compare that to the seven years it took to recover from my worst ever flare, and that tells me the knowledge I've built up actually works. Ironically it was those dark months after the hysterectomy that made me finally get this community and programme properly off the ground. Because anything can set you back to square one, and I didn't want anyone facing that alone.

Anyway. Tomorrow's operation is for cubital tunnel syndrome. My ulnar nerve is compressed at my elbow and I've had numbness and tingling in my ring and little fingers for a couple of years. Did you know that people with fibromyalgia can be more predisposed to nerve entrapment because of pain and soft tissue inflammation? Worth a GP chat if any of that sounds familiar.

I'll document the recovery honestly, including how my fibro responds, because that feels important to share.

Wish me luck. 🤞 And be kind to yourselves today. 💜

14/06/2026

𝗜𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻....

How you doin! (I can never say that without hearing Joey Tribbiani now after the Friends Experience in New York 😄)5 hour...
14/06/2026

How you doin! (I can never say that without hearing Joey Tribbiani now after the Friends Experience in New York 😄)

5 hours 37 minutes sleep, a sleep score of 76, and I still feel pretty good today. I'm putting it down to the summer solstice energy, early mornings in the garden with a cuppa and the birds. Up here in the north of England it barely gets dark at night and honestly, I love it.

The other reason I feel good? I finally faced the spreadsheet I'd been avoiding for 18 months and added up everything this community has actually cost me to build. Wow. Just... wow.

And it made something click. I've been putting it off because I genuinely don't want to charge for this support. But there are real costs I can't keep absorbing forever. I've been called a scammer for charging. That stings. But I've lived with fibro for 30 years and spent thousands trying to find answers, and I've condensed all of that into a roadmap that starts with First Steps with Fibro. I know what this is worth.

So here's the thing. I've just turned 60, and I'm feeling generous. The next 60 people get First Steps with Fibro completely FREE - just reply BIRTHDAY and I will send you the discount code. All I ask is an honest, warts and all review.

Grant funding is my next big focus too, because if I can secure it, it dilutes the costs for everyone and opens the door to Phase 2, where the real magic happens with genuine expert input. First application goes off 1st July. Fingers crossed. 🤞💜

14/06/2026

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸-𝗶𝗻 — 𝗵𝗼𝘄'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆? 💜

Drop a number:

1 — rough start, fibro's loud today
2 — managing but running on fumes
3 — not bad, moving steady
4 — actually having a good day

No explanations needed. No pressure to be positive. No judgment.

Just check in with yourself and let us know where you're at.

Because one of the most powerful things in this community is knowing you're not alone. On the rough days, on the good days, on the in-between days.

We're all here. 💜

(And if you're curious about what I've been hinting at all week — it's time to check your stories. The first 60 people who respond are going to get something that might genuinely shift how you approach building a life with fibromyalgia.)

13/06/2026

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁. 💜

You don't have to earn your rest.

You don't have to be productive enough, or sick enough, or have tried hard enough first.

You don't have to justify it to anyone.

You just have to need it.

And if you're reading this on a Saturday morning — your body probably needs it. So go. Rest without the guilt. Do the thing that feels good. Take the slow morning. Skip the plans that drain you. Watch the show. Take the nap.

Your body isn't punishing you by needing rest. It's communicating with you.

And learning to listen to that communication is one of the most important things you can do.

So rest well today. You've earned it just by showing up for yourself this week. 💜

(And if you want to know what special thing is happening this week, check your stories — there's something there that might actually change how you approach fibromyalgia management.)

12/06/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗺𝘆𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮?

Not "since diagnosis" — since you stopped trying to ignore it or push through it or pretend it wasn't there.

Since you actually started listening to what your body was telling you.

For me, that moment was about thirteen years in.....yes, thirteen, because no one listened to my symptoms and it was mostly put down to being tired after having a baby.

I was in yet another flare, exhausted from fighting my own body, and I just... stopped. Stopped pushing. Stopped pretending I could do what everyone else was doing. Stopped measuring myself against people who don't have fibromyalgia.

And something shifted.

Not overnight. Not dramatically. But gradually I started:
• Sleeping better (because I wasn't fighting fatigue, I was honouring it)
• Having fewer flares (because I stopped triggering them constantly)
• Enjoying things more (because I wasn't measuring enjoyment against how much I suffered the next day)
• Actually liking myself (because I stopped seeing myself as failing)

The hardest part wasn't the fibromyalgia. It was giving myself permission to live differently than I thought I was supposed to.

So I want to know — what's shifted for you? What got better when you stopped fighting and started listening?

Drop your answer below 👇 — and if you're still in the fighting phase, know that listening is coming. 💜

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