Five fabulous fibro bloggers

We are celebrating five outstanding fibro bloggers from the Fibro Blogger Directory this week! 

These courageous writers endure chronic pain yet continue to share their journeys to empower others and help them understand more about Fibromyalgia. 

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Beverley has been blogging at Blooming Mindfulness since 2016. She has many chronic illnesses including Fibromyalgia, anaemia, chronic fatigue, depression and general anxiety disorder. Despite all of these, and being a carer, she has a very positive outlook. You can catch up with her through the many lovely videos she has created chatting about her life as a disabled vintage witch!

I blog about my experiences and give tips and tricks to help and inspire other disabled people. I also hope to raise awareness and compassion from able-bodied people wanting to educate themselves.

I hope my posts and videos help you, but I am not a doctor and though I trained as a nurse I cannot give personalised help and advice. 

Here are some of her fibromyalgia related posts:

• How to self soothe when life seems totally overwhelming.
• Let's talk about Mobility Aids.
• Frustration with Fatigue.

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Helen blogs at Living whole: Neurodivergent lived experience with a side order of chronic health. As well as Fibromyalgia, POTS, Autism and ADHD and Ehlers-Danlos hypermobility she writes about being a highly sensitive person and...

what it is like to live as a neurodivergent adult female with chronic health conditions whilst trying, very hard, to impart some of the breakthroughs and many positives of increased self-understanding that have come out of the journey.

I aim to offer is a resource comprised of relatable experiences and clues in the dark for other people exploring their health status as I have had to do…and, in fact, as all of us with chronic conditions such as ME/CFS are forced to do for ourselves given these conditions are still so widely misunderstood, stigmatized, under-researched and generally swept under the carpet.

Her fibro related blog posts include:

• Weighted blankets revisited. 
• Cervical instability at the core of Fibromyalgia 
• “You’re looking really well”: The curse of the invisible disability

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Susan's blog is Living Creatively with Fibro where she has been blogging to help others understand more about Fibromyalgia and share the creativity that helps her in her life.

In 2016, I started the blog “Living Creatively with Fibro.” The first reason was to chronicle my journey. Then as time passed by I realised that there was so much that was unknown or misunderstood about Fibromyalgia. Even within the medical community. So I wanted to help the “Spoonie” community get the word out.

Although I write quite a lot about Fibromyalgia and Spoonie Life. That does not define me, and so I write about how I live with Fibro too.

Her fibro blog posts include:

• Adaptable Working When you have Fibromyalgia
• Fibromyalgia and Itching
• Complex Sleep Problems and Fibromyalgia

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Bethan blogs at Hello Fibro Blog. She has been suffering with chronic pain since she was ten but was not diagnosed with Fibromyalgia till many years later. She was in her early 20's when she started blogging. 

I started this blog to come to terms with my diagnosis but also to raise awareness and help others with similar conditions know they are not alone. I have found an amazing community of bloggers and the chronically ill that support one another through everything 💜

Some of her interesting Fibro posts include:

• Tips on Pacing when you Live with Chronic Illness
• Fibromyalgia: Old Before My Time ( a poem)
• What It’s Like To Be A Young Adult With Fibromyalgia

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Dan blogs at CFS Unravelled - Opening the Door to Recovery from ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia. He is a former Physicist who used his scientific training to research Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and POTS when he was ill with for 7 years. His main goal is to educate and assist patients and their healthcare providers in understanding these conditions. His blog is full of video interviews including experts in the field. He believes that...

despite the fact that there is no panacea cure for these disorders, full recovery is absolutely possible. 

His fibromyalgia related posts include:

•  How Flares and Relapses Fuel Your Healing Journey with Raelan Agle (video)
• What is Recovery from Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, POTS or related syndromes? (video)
• Choosing the Right Fibromyalgia Treatments

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I hope you have enjoyed finding out more about these fibro bloggers this week. Don't forget to call in next week to see who will be included in Focus on Five Fibro blogs.

Focus on Five

Focus on Five showcases five fabulous fibro bloggers here each week. This week we spotlight five of our favorite bloggers at Fibro Blogger Directory. Fibro bloggers are a unique group as they live with a chronic pain condition and still choose to write about it to help others. 

Rob and Bridget are chronic illness and disabled travel bloggers from the United Kingdom. Between them, they have a large "collection' of illnesses including fibromyalgia, sleep apnoea, and rheumatoid arthritis. Their blog The Bimblers is about living in the slow lane and finding accessible travel. 

 

"When you travel with a disability, there is more to picking a holiday destination than finding out where the best beach is or what the nightlife is like. Yes, these are important, but so are the more practical things as well."   

 

10 Free and Accessible Things to do in London and Accessible Guide to the UK’s National Parks are just two of their many helpful and indepth articles. They talk all about inclusive travel and chronic illness on their Facebook page and Twitter feed.

 

Lynne Said helps women reduce the pain, fatigue & fog of fibromyalgia, build their confidence and get their lives back. She is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, OldPain2Go Practitioner and Health Coach, a member of the Complementary Medical Association, and a member of the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2014 and blogs at The Healing Within Fibromyalgia. She has many posts there including I Left When Fibromyalgia Arrived and How to Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain.

 

"There's no cure for fibromyalgia at this time but that doesn't mean we can't have a quality of life! Focusing on the core of what supports good health rather than trying to play whack-a-mole with symptoms and flares is the way forward." 

 

Her Facebook page is full of helpful suggestions to support healing. 

 

 Cynthia Covert was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and endometriosis between 2001 and 2004. Also, a handful of surgical errors have left her with irreparable abdominal damage. Despite all of this she is always looking for ways to make living with chronic pain and illness easier, less painful, and more fun. She blogs about her chronic life story, self-care, and accessibility at The Disabled Diva's Blog. She has helpful posts, where you can also listen, like 6 Fibromyalgia Triggers and How to Avoid Them and Fibromyalgia Treatment Lyrica Patient Review Of Side Effects And Benefits 

You can find her on Facebook and her colorful Instagram account contains all her famous meme creations.

 

Bettina Bier was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2011 and has been blogging about it since 2018 at Me, Myself and I - When Nothing Goes Right Go Left. 

 

"In your dream you have so much pain in your back that you barely can stand & you wake up from this. 

 When awake you realise it was not only in your dreams.

These are the days when it only can get better." 

 

Bettina has an interview series with people living with fibromyalgia, like Nikki and Alisha and also translates some of her fibro articles into German to help a wider audience. Of course, I would be remiss to not mention her beloved dog Scotch who she shares photographs of on Facebook, and her love of the show Supernatural which she often tweets about.  

 

  

Joanna Orgovan has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. She is a certified coach who believes that getting better from Fibromyalgia starts with your mindset. Her blog - But You Look So Healthy - focuses on natural techniques to treat and live with these conditions. 
 
"I have pretty much died to my old self and have started anew to create a brand-new life that has healed me from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes, it's a fine line of that one thing that can drive you back over the edge to being ill. I do not compromise anything for my health. Not one thing." 
 
Her information packed posts include The Mindset You Need to Feel Better From Fibromyalgia, Forever... and Chakras, The Vagus Nerve and Fibromyalgia, Oh My! You can find her on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Focus on Five

Focus on Five showcases five fabulous fibro bloggers here each week. This week we will shine a spotlight on five of our newest bloggers at Fibro Blogger Directory. Fibro bloggers are a unique group as they live with a chronic pain condition and still choose to write about it to help others. 

Sarah Warburton has been living with fibromyalgia since at least 2012. She can remember symptoms when she was growing up.  She blogs at Musings of life with fibromyalgia about her life with fibromyalgia in the United Kingdom, including things that lift and inspire her. Even though she lives with anxiety, chronic migraine, and spinal injury as well as fibro she is learning ways to manage her conditions rather than them controlling her. 

 

"Since being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I’ve been on a mission to find ways to thrive and live a positive life by learning as much as I can about self care and wellness and putting these new skills into practice."  

 

Some of her helpful posts include Fibro, Anxiety and the Festive Season and 5 tips for Travelling by car when you have Fibro. You can also follow her tweets as SarahW @sswarbo  

 

Tash is the blogger at Bohemian Solitude where she is sharing her thoughts as an artist living beyond fibromyalgia, endometriosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, migraines, and PTSD.  

 

"I am the artist behind Bnspyrd's Artist's Resources, I will be posting about my life, helpful advice & links, please join me on my journey."   

 

Tash was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2019, lives in South Australia, and is a freelance artist. She has some original, interesting poems on her blog as well as sharing her day-to-day life in posts like Introduction about my life as an artist and in chronic pain. You can also find and follow her on Facebook  

 

Shannon Murphy is a Canadian who loves to travel and is not letting fibromyalgia stop her from doing this. She also loves photography and nature and has combined her passions at Route 5976 - Fibromyalgia Travel blog. She writes about how she manages the daily limitations of pain and fatigue while still finding joy through traveling in Canada and around the world.  

 

In Travel Lightly she writes "These are my top three tips to travel lightly with fibromyalgia. Keeping in mind that a one size all approach to fibromyalgia does not fit all…find what works best for you within your limits. Hopefully my tips help to inspire joy, excitement and wonderment that comes while travelling near or far. "  

 

You can follow her tweets at Shannon Murphy @route5976fibro and also find her on Pinterest

Beckey Barton lives in  Stratford Upon Avon, in England and has started a local support group for fibromyalgia there. At her blog Whispers from Beckey she shares her busy life as a wife, mother, graphic designer, and high school governor living with chronic pain conditions.  She hopes that others can learn along with her. You might like to discover her idea for crafting when living with pain here in  My Secret Geek Revealed and says 

 

"I love life and God, laughter, singing and being creative; but I also face daily battles with my health, including Fibromyalgia, CFS, Scoliosis, and I won't bore you with the rest!"  

 

You can follow her tweets at Beckey Barton @BeckeyBarton and also find her on Instagram 

 

Susan E. Bisco has been writing for many years and blogging about fibromyalgia since early 2016. She is happily living on the northwest banks of the Mississippi with her life partner. Fibromy What? is her blog where she is known as DeeDeeDarkly. She discusses many topics including her exercise and diet and you must read Things to Be Sure Your Doctor Actually Understands: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. She explains her blog in her own words: 

 

"Hello fellow wanderers.  As you can see in my fine print disclaimer, this site is dedicated to the discussion of fibromyalgia, chronic pain, chronic fatigue… Sounds fascinating doesn’t it?   

Chicken or the Egg: In which we will explore which comes first – chronic pain or chronic fatigue? chronic pain or depression? chronic pain or sleeping disorder? and any other pertinent possibilities."

I hope you have enjoyed finding out more about these fibro bloggers this week. don't forget to call in next week to see who will be included in Focus on Five.