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Controlling Relapses: A Four-Fold Strategy
How to minimize the effects of flares. Also, how to spot relapse triggers and warning signs.

Seven Strategies for Reducing Guilt
Practical responses if you feel guilty for being sick.

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

Mental Adjustments, Part 1: Reframing
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.

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

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

Your Doctor’s Role and Yours
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.

Gaining Control with Planned Rest
How to reduce symptoms and gain stability using daily scheduled rests

How My Body Speaks to Me: What I've Learned by Listening to My Body
One person describes how her life runs better when she listens to her body.

Four Pacing Success Stories
How four people safely expanded their activity level using pacing

How I Manage My Many Energy Envelopes
How one person has experienced dramatic improvement by managing her various Energy Envelopes.

Strategies for Vacations and Other Special Events
Three strategies for special events, a special event success story, and the special events worksheet.

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

Strategies for Stress Reduction, Part 1
How to use deep relaxation and mental adjustments to reduce stress.

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

Coping Strategies for Severe Sensory Overload, Part 2
One person's many tools and strategies for protecting herself from sensory overload.

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

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

Got Fibromyalgia? There’s a Class for That…
An article describing our Introductory course and the author's experience with it. Originally published on the National Pain Report.

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