Lifestyle

Advocacy, Happiness and Guilt

When you have a chronic illness that is widely misunderstood and steeped in decades of stigma and disbelief from doctors and the wider...

Lorna McFindlow

Feb 12, 20215 min read

[Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with The Perrin Technique or Dr Perrin in any way. This is an entirely independent review of a service I...

Lorna McFindlow

Jan 16, 20207 min read

Christmas is well and truly upon us. It seems to have snuck up from nowhere like the little festive pest that it is. Don’t get me wrong,...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20196 min read

Despite some of his more questionable theories, Sigmund Freud was right about one thing: “time spent with cats is never wasted.” For...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20195 min read

I became a wheelchair user two years ago, and in that time I’ve really had to work through a lot of anxiety and internalised ableism to...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20196 min read

This is a photo that my husband took me of this afternoon. Lying in a darkened room, wearing an eye mask because even the light coming...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20192 min read

In the build up to M.E Awareness Week, the advocacy group ME Action Network have asked the online community post on a new topic every day...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20193 min read

Around two weeks ago it was International Wheelchair Day and this got me thinking about my relationship with my own wheelchair and the...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20195 min read

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you all had a very merry festive period. If you’re reading this and you have a chronic illness, I hope...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20193 min read

Part 1: An Introduction At the end of August this year I hit a particularly low point. The unusual heat wave was wreaking havoc on my...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 17, 20194 min read

I’ve often heard it said that when a person gets very sick, it can be almost as hard for the partner or spouse as it can for the person...

Lorna McFindlow

Dec 16, 20196 min read