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Tips for reducing stress and increasing enjoyment of the holidays, offered by guest author Karen Lee Richards.

How to reduce the frequency and severity of setbacks. (Last in a series.)

Seven strategies for making relationships better.

People with ME/CFS and FM offer tips for coping with depression, loss and anger.

A simple technique for achieving goals is target setting, which involves translating general goals into specific, doable steps. This article will show you how.

The second of two articles describing how Bruce Campbell used self-help to recover from CFIDS.

The first of two articles describing how Bruce Campbell used self-help to recover from CFS.

Pacing is often recommended as a strategy for gaining control of symptoms and bringing stability. But how do you do it? This article describes what students have found helpful.

People with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia face a common set of problems and report they use similar coping strategies. (First in a series.)

One way to improve quality of life is by having a NOT TO DO list.

ME/CFS patient JoWynn Johns describes how she found blessings in solitude.

Long-term illness can be confusing. Here's a guide to unfamiliar territory.

For JoWynn Johns, recovery meant creating a different kind of life than she had before becoming ill.

JoWynn Johns describes how she reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and honoring her body's limits.

Getting a diagnosis of FM after more than two decades triggered a process of change that led to a greatly improved quality of life.

Kristin Scherger describes how she was able to expand her energy envelope by changing careers.

The recovery story of our founder, Bruce Campbell.

Can gratitude be life-transforming? Read FMS patient Joan Buchman's account of the impact of gratitude on her life.

Dean Anderson's account of how he used self-help in his successful eight-year struggle to recover from ME/CFS.

Patti Schmidt explains how she worked through grief to learn how to live with her illness.