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Practical responses if you feel guilty for being sick.

How to recognize and break free if you're “re-chewing” an experience.

Living successfully with ME/CFS or FM requires changing how we think, not just what we do. Part 1: learning to see things in a new, more productive way.

Better sleep using improved habits, medications and treatment of sleep disorders.

How Anne Leppert learned to avoid the cycle of push and crash by pacing herself.

Your doctor can help you in four ways, but you will likely have a bigger effect on your ME/CFS and FM by the way you live your life.

How to reduce symptoms and gain stability using daily scheduled rests

One person describes how her life runs better when she listens to her body.

How four people safely expanded their activity level using pacing

How one person has experienced dramatic improvement by managing her various Energy Envelopes.

Three strategies for special events, a special event success story, and the special events worksheet.

Strategies for avoiding stress triggers. Also, how to use pacing, routine and order to avoid stress.

How to use deep relaxation and mental adjustments to reduce stress.

Guest article by Toni Bernhard, excerpted from her book "How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness."

One person's many tools and strategies for protecting herself from sensory overload.

A dozen practical strategies for responding when you're feeling down.

How to work through all the losses brought by ME/CFS and FM, then create a new life.

An article describing our Introductory course and the author's experience with it. Originally published on the National Pain Report.

Principles for safely increasing activity level. Also, a success story and quick ways to expand the envelope.

More strategies for living within the Energy Envelope.