Pacing

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

Dodging Danger Strategies for Special Events
Three strategies you can use to avoid relapses triggered by vacations, the holidays and other special events.

Finding and Staying Within My Limits
The strategies Kathy Mero used to find and live within her Energy Envelope so she can live nearly symptom-free.

Finding Your Energy Envelope Part 1
Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)

Finding Your Energy Envelope Part 2
How to develop a detailed understanding of your limits. (Second of two articles.)

How to Enjoy Special Events and Minimize the Price
Tips for vacations, holiday celebrations and other special events. Also, the special event worksheet.

Key 4 Nurture Yourself with PreEmptive Rest
Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable.

Learning Pacing Strategies
Nine ways to reduce symptoms by adapting to the limits imposed by illness.

Learning to Pace
A two-part series with articles by self-help program founder Bruce Campbell, PhD and Dr. Charles Lapp of the Hunter-Hopkins Center.

Managing Your Energy Envelope
How to determine your energy profile plus nine strategies for managing your energy.

Minimizing Relapses
Strategies for limiting the frequency and severity of relapses.

Pacing by Numbers Using Your Heart Rate To Stay Inside the Energy Envelope
How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.

Pacing FAQ
Answers to commonly-asked questions about pacing.

Pacing Strategies That Help Me
How Kate Morgan uses rest breaks, logging, a heart rate monitor and other strategies to smooth the CFS roller coaster and avoid relapses.

Pacing What It Is and How to Do It
A series of articles with practical strategies for controlling symptoms and expanding the energy envelope.

Aids to Pacing Part 1
How to use personalized rules and guidelines.

Pedometers A Tool for Pacing
Having trouble controlling your symptoms? Consider counting your steps using a pedometer.

Aids to Pacing Part 2
How to use timers, pedometers, heart rate monitors and other devices.

PostExertional Malaise
Why a little overdoing can trigger a relapse.

Three Pacing Stories
An introduction to pacing via three success stories.

Using Pacing to Control Relapses & Reduce Symptoms
How Kathy Mero used a set of pacing strategies to reduce relapses and live nearly symptom-free.

Using Targets to Improve Health and Gain Control
A series of small steps leads to dramatic improvement.

Making Realistic Daily & Weekly Plans
How to gain predictability and control through planning.

Aligning Willpower with Pacing
Consistent pacing requires a mindset shift. Viewing slip-ups through the lens of will and willpower can help us move forward without struggle or self-judgment.

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