hEDS and “energy flu”

I’ve been calling it “energy flu” for decades but what I mean by this is when the environment changes and I sense it through every tissue and fibre of my hypermobile body and it affects me…affects literally all of me, like I’ve walked in or out of a pressure chamber and nothing is quite normal whilst I adjust. Talking about hEDS in relation to an increased sensitivity to environmental shifts, how this impacts sensations, symptom load such as pain and dysautonomias, functional ability, executive function and more and things you could possibly consider as a better way of managing these episodes.

Celebrating your wins

The mindset of "chronic" can close our minds to all the small and medium sized wins, the subtle but indisputable improvements, the learning curves and fresh starts. Its just so important to take pause to appreciate all the subtle ways that things have improved, been overcome or even just taught us beneficial things about ourselves and life in general, often with such positive outcomes when it comes to increased confidence, optimism, sense of progression and even joie de vivre.