Gift ideas for people with chronic illness designed by people with chronic illness

Do you have a loved one with chronic illness and you want to buy them a gift?

Do you have chronic illness and you are looking for some comfort?

You can support people living with chronic illnesses by giving gifts that they have created. 

Here you will discover thoughtful gifts and show you care both to the person who receives your gift and the person who created it who is also living with chronic illness.

A Coloring Adventure for Spoonies: This book is made for Spoonies by a full-time Spoonie who has been using art as a coping tool for chronic illness and chronic pain since 2009.

I've published the first coloring adventure for Spoonies! This is the result of a medical crisis from the summer of 2023 that I spun into something colorful. From chaos comes beauty! 

My Several Worlds Coloring Adventure for Spoonies offers pages of inky delight to remind you that you are strong, beautiful, and uniquely you. You are NOT broken!

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My Mindfulness Toolkit for Chronic Pain and Fatigue book

In this book, author, blogger, yoga teacher, and chronic illness thriver Melissa Reynolds share dozens of practices that you might like to add to your daily management plans. You will learn many practical techniques to add to your symptom management plans. To help you rest, relax and even strengthen your body. It includes worksheets to create your own flare plan, pain management plan and work management plans. It's a must read for the chronic pain and fatigue community.

Buy it on lulu

Buy it on Amazon

Watch Melissa talk about her new book in this six minute YouTube video

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Team Fibro T shirts and mugs by Dale Rockell: These are using Dales own unique smoke art designs created for those with fibromyalgia. 

I live with a chronic health condition called Fibromyalgia. This means living with chronic pain, sleep disturbance, severe brain fog, declined cognitive function and impact on my vision, among many other symptoms. Very little is understood about this condition, and how to support those living with it by the majority of healthcare professionals. From my Smoke Art I have created unique designs using the Fibro logo of the butterfly, to help raise awareness.

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Jump Start Program EASE INTO EXERCISING: an easy exercise program. This is a great place to begin if you are new to exercising or have not done so in a long time due to low energy and or chronic pain. This short, gentle program will help you get started on your journey to look and feel better by exercising safely using the Cocolime Fitness method. Here you’ll ease into moving more again through some fantastic stretching and gentle bodyweight toning routines!

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Soft Hugs for Mommy: Learning to Live with Fibromyalgia: a book about a loving family as navigating the challenges of Mommy's chronic pain condition. The family helps Mommy with her invisible illness by offering gentle hugs, thoughtful acts of kindness, and comforting words. The author and illustrator draws from their personal experience with chronic illness.

The book has a “Let’s Talk” section to open the conversation between parent and child. These questions, created with a child psychologist, offer a space for children to express their feelings about Mommy's illness. This book facilitates discussing other related conditions (such as Lyme Disease, ME, CFS, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, chronic migraine, chronic pain, and others).

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Chronic Illness Life Journal: Whether you're battling fibromyalgia, autoimmune arthritis, or any other chronic condition, this journal is a valuable tool for your self-care journey.
Embrace the power of chronic illness life journaling as a means to enhance your mental health and overall well-being. This beginner-friendly journal provides guidance and support, making it an ideal companion for those who are new to chronic illness life journaling.

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Other ways you can support those with chronic illness include:

• visit their blogs and read some of their articles
• follow and like them on their social media channels
• share this post so others can find it
• visit my Fibro Shop on Amazon which has gift ideas for those living with Fibromyalgia like the softest pyjamas and a cozy cuddle blanket.

Thank you for taking time to visit here today.

Helpful holiday resources at Fibro Blogger Directory

Wishing you Christmas cheer and comfort and help for the holidays!

This article is all about helpful holiday resources to make this time of year a little easier. Also it's a chance for you to help out some chronic illness bloggers while they also help you! 

This holiday season why not help out someone living with chronic illness? It's simple, just visit some of the links below to find Gift Ideas, Services, Books, and Christmas Recipes all provided by people living with chronic illnesses. Also if you scroll all the way to the bottom there are two very helpful lists for support services at this time of year. Here are some ways you can get ideas and help others to...

GIFT IDEAS: 

Please check out these helpful suggestions that include books, art and cards and a wide variety of products:

🌲9 of the best subscriptions for health magazines

🌲Ideas for health, wellbeing and self-care gifts

🌲The Best Christmas Gift Guide for Exhausted Mamas 2022

🌲8 Unique Customizable Gifts for any occasion

🌲T-shirts

🌲Aromafloria Muscle Soak & Inhalation Beads Review

🌲GlobaLink String Lights For Indoor & Outdoor Use

🌲Managing Fibromyalgia Amazon store 

🌲7 Must-Have Shark Tank Products For Epilepsy Living

🌲Christmas cards made by Susan 

🌲Fine Art Giclee prints and cards by Helen White Art

🌲Marion: A novel dedicated to those living with chronic illness by Bethan Jones : Genre - historical fiction. 

🌲The Return of the Key, a novel, by Alisha Nurse explores the power of love, sacrifice and the journey to self acceptance.

🌲A children's book about a cow with free downloadable coloring pages.

🌲Chronically Empowered: a book that features 60 amazing chronic illness warriors including artists, entrepreneurs and advocates.

🌲Photograhic art including cards, Christmas cards, postcards and posters of original photograhs taken by UK photograher Dale Rockell. 

SERVICES: 

These are all provided by people who live with chronic illness. 

Blogging Bread: services for your website, social media or marketing needs.

Naturopathic Doctor: book a free discovery session

Cocolime Fitness: Workouts designed by a trainer dealing with chronic pain and fatigue herself.

Wellness Program for women living with fibromyalgia

ANS REWIRE Recovery Program  from ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia

Your Essential Yoga for Chronic Pain & Fatigue Starter Kit

Free Massage and Myofascial Release eBook

Health Coaching for Fibromyalgia 

BOOKS ABOUT FIBROMYALGIA:

📗Get Back into Whack: How to Easily Rewire Your Brain to Outsmart Stress, Overcome Self-Sabotage, and Optimize Healing from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Illness

 

📗CFS Unravelled: Get Well By Treating The Cause Not Just The Symptoms Of CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS And Related Syndromes

📗Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection 

📗Fibromyalgia Won't Win shares the key healing pillars in Melissa’s holistic wellness plan, her journey from gaslighted youth to thriving thirty-something and practical action points for you. 

📗Living the Best Life with Fibromyalgia Tips for living well with fibromyalgia.

📗Ravyn’s Doll: How do you explain Fibromyalgia to Your Child? Book and paper doll. 

📗Fibromyalgia for Families and Friends by Janet L. black a retired nurse living with fibromyalgia. 

RECIPES AND FOOD TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS:

Clean Eating: Truffles

Eating: Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Cookies

Turmeric turkey breast fillets

Pomegranate ginger mocktail

Fibromyalgia Grocery Shopping & Cooking Tips

CHRONIC CHRISTMAS RELATED ARTICLES: 

Reading these will give you some great suggestions for coping and you will know that others really understand. 

3 Important Holiday Checklists for Those with Chronic Illness (and Their Supporters)

Holiday Traditions for the chronically ill

12 Top Tips on how to manage your pain this Christmas

Surviving the Holidays with Chronic Illness – Tips and Tricks

Christmas on a Budget

Top 5 Christmas Activities for Chronic Illness Warriors

Managing the holidays as a parent with chronic illness.

How to Survive the Holidays When Chronic Illness & Disability Cause Pain

Preparing for the Festive Season as a Spoonie

What NOT to do when family visits for the holidays

5 Pain Management Modifications To Help You Have A Ball This Holiday Season

Entertaining With Fibro: The Holiday Edition

Making a Fibro List for Christmas

Travel Tips and Travel Aids for those with disability and chronic illness

Are you still getting over Christmas?

Fibromyalgia, Anxiety and the Festive Season

It’s ok not to be ok this Christmas

Simple stress management tips at Christmas

15 Tips for surviving the holidays with chronic illness

A Compassionate Chronic Christmas: How To Extend the Holiday Spirit Towards Yourself

Presence over Presents Christmas Reflection and a Life Lesson relevant for every day of the year!

GREAT FIBROMYALGIA BLOGS TO READ:

Encouraging bloggers is as simple as visiting their sites. The bonus is you will find many helpful articles and personal experiences and you are supporting bloggers just by visiting their sites. Having visitors at our blog and helping others is what blogging is all about. The Directory of Fibromyalgia bloggers is here. 

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT CAN HELP YOU AT CHRISTMAS:

Organizations that can help - USA based support organizations.

Important Resources for the holiday season - UK based organisations.

CHRONIC ILLNESS AND CORONAVIRUS

Here we are sharing all our articles relating to COVID-19. We are a group of people who live with Fibromyalgia and other chronic illnesses. We hope these posts can help support you through the pandemic with the information and support that you may need.

Fibro Friday blog link up week 52

Many things change when you have a chronic illness. We would love you to share your story here and read others.

Fibro Friday week 46

You really can fight fibro by sharing your story because the more people know about this condition the more chance we have of getting medical research into it. Please join in this week by either leaving a link to one of your posts or visiting the others here. Thank you.

Fibro Friday - week 36

I'm late.. I'm late... for a very important date, No time to say hello, good-bye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.

Hope you have time to join in this week...

Fibro Friday link up #35

Have you joined in at Fibro Friday yet by adding a post to the link up? We would love you to do so and help spread fibromyalgia awareness... you do not have to be in Fibro Blogger Directory - just have a blog post, past or recent, about fibromyalgia to share. Why not link up here?

Fibro awareness blog link up #34

Let's create a future where everyone knows about and understands Fibromyalgia. That begins now by sharing information about Fibro so everyone can see. Please share your posts here, read others posts and spread them around. This is the first step in awareness. From this more scientific research will come. You have the power to help by sharing, and reading and sharing a post that you like.

Fibro Friday spreading fibro awareness for 33 weeks

Hope you can join us this week...

Fibro Friday at Fibro Blogger Directory #32

Welcome to Fibro Friday!

This is a friendly community where all fibro fighters can share and learn about all things relating to fibromyalgia. Raising awareness about this condition is the beginning of getting a cure.

We look forward to getting to know you whether you are here to read the posts or share a post. Why not leave a comment about how you a going this week? We would love to hear from you.

Help others understand about Fibromyalgia

Fibro Friday link up up party: tell it how it is

Don't be scared to tell it how it is here at Fibro Friday, where you can link up any of your posts about Fibromyalgia - be real, share your range of thoughts, feelings and opinions about fibro and how it affects you because others really want to know.Help others understand whats really happening for people with fibro.

What have you read that has helped you with pain?

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin  (1924 - 1987) American writer.

What books have you read that have helped you with your pain?

We are a tribe

Have you heard of the idea of a blogging tribe? A tribe is a group of like-minded people and that is what Fibro Blogger Directory is all about.
Having a blogging tribe takes the concept of a blogging community to another level so that it is more supportive, more personal, more of a community.

There are lots of great people here on Fibro Blogger Directory and they all have a lot in common with you. Besides having fibromyalgia and blogging about it they are looking to get their posts read and shared too, just like you and me. Sharing cool blog posts is a great way to help each other, interact, feel good and spread the fibro message.

So why not visit a few blogs on the Directory and if you find one you like share it through your social media. Do you have twitter,  facebook,  pinterest or tumblr? You can connect with us there.

Fibro Bloggers contest starts today

Let's all join together and get this thing started. More visitors to our sites, more comments, more involvement and connection...sounds good doesn't it?

It helps our sites but ultimately it helps the fibro cause, as many people are seen to be involved in what Fibromyalgia is all about and how it affects so many people.

It's so easy to join in  -
1. just visit other members of Fibro Bloggers Directory* and
2. leave a comment on any of their posts. One comment equals 2 points in the competition.
3. call back here and get your points for each person you visit by adding them on Rafflecopter.
4. If you cannot use the Rafflecopter, for any reason, please leave a list below of the url or url's you have visited.

How to Win
The person with the most points on Rafflecopter wins. Rafflecopter will tally the votes.

What you win
The top 8 to 10 winners will be put in Fibro Blogs of Note on the Fibro Bloggers Directory site.
They will be promoted on facebook and twitter and Pinterest and tumblr.

CONDITIONS:  The winners must have a Fibro Blogger Directory badge on their site. The existence of their comments will be checked.

* Go to the Directory or Alphabetical list and work your way through


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Fibro Blogs of Note Contest

Look in the right sidebar and you will see that FIBRO BLOGS OF NOTE is empty...

This is in preparation for our new competition arriving tomorrow where you can win some prizes, get more visitors and comments on your site and make some friends and visit some too all without leaving the comfort of your home. Who could ask for more?

Call back here tomorrow for all the details. We love helping fibro bloggers feel fabulous.

Excited to announce a fibro bloggers competition

Yes at Fibro Blogger Directory we are all about connecting fibro bloggers and helping others so we will be announcing a competition to do just that very soon...in the next couple of days...just finalising the prizes right now.
So if you are blogging about fibromyalgia stay tuned.

Cleaning and Other Housework with chronic pain

Basic household cleaning can stress both your brain and your body when you have chronic illness and chronic pain. These simple tips might help to alleviate some of the problems, leaving you more time and energy for what you love.

GENERAL CLEANING and HOUSEHOLD TIPS

• Pacing is so important but how do you start? Think 'What can you do in 5 minutes?' Pick out a chore you want to tackle, set a timer, and go! Stop when the timer goes off to prevent over exertion; if you feel pretty good after a brief rest, set it for another 5 minutes and start over.
• Even on a blustery day, opening your windows for a few minutes will make your home (and your body!) feel fresher, even if you don't have the time or energy to clean.

Fibro Bloggers Unite

 

Connect with other bloggers by commenting on their blogs, visiting their blogs and following their blogs. This is advice that gets included in almost every post ever written on how to grow a blog’s visitors. This seems pretty basic to me but maybe some people just don't get it so I have written here, in point form, the benefits of visiting other fibro bloggers blogs both from how you benefit and how the condition of Fibromyalgia benefits.

WHY CONNECT WITH OTHER FIBRO BLOGGERS?
FROM YOUR BLOGS POINT OF VIEW:
Visiting other peoples blogs makes your own blog stronger:

• Leaving comments gets you new readers.
• Following "brands" your blog and gets you exposure.
• Educates you on what makes a good post and a good blog.
• Helps you see what topics are engaging audiences.
• Helps you see what you have to offer that others don't.

FROM FIBROMYALGIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
Visiting other people's blogs:

• Provides a united front.
• Helps everyone see Fibromyalgia has many faces and voices; we are a large group, a strong group, a supportive group. 
• Convinces the world to see there are a lot of people connecting and talking about Fibromyalgia ( "maybe they are not crazy, maybe there is something to this, maybe we should listen, maybe we will do something about this!")

I have left the MOST IMPORTANT POINT till last:  as chronic pain sufferers, visiting other's blogs helps us get a connection with others, we see other real people going through the same things as us and we do not feel so alone.
So whether you want to help your own blog get more readers or help the cause of Fibromyalgia please visit other Fibro Bloggers blogs. We have made it easy for you here - just go to the Directory and visit one or two (or more) a day. Thank you for your continued support.

Dr Oz is asking you to share your fibro story

Dr Oz has requested people who suffer From Fibromyalgia to share their story.
Please only respond if you are willing to share your story with Dr. Oz on the show.

Visit his site here and fill in the request form.