Earlier today, I posted an article “Gym Training With a Broken Body“. Many have messaged me in regards to the nutrition section in the article. I had written that I have been suffering from a Binge Eating Disorder, and until very recently, it was behind locked doors for 10 years. The first dose of when…
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Gym training with a broken body
Last week, I wrote an article: Skating my way through pain. Which gave an outline of how I am able to skate and compete with Fibromyalgia (and my other long list of illnesses). Well, this article focuses on gym training. I will explain my most recent gym day and then give tips on the gym…
Skating my way through pain
May 12th, is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and for this day, I have decided to tackle one question I constantly receive. Question: How can you figure skate/compete while having fibromyalgia/being in constant pain? Point A: I will throw this out there right away…I am probably one of the more stubborn people you’ll ever meet. When I…
Fibromyalgia: What the body goes through during a flare
Fibromyalgia is one of the stronger illnesses I have been diagnosed with. Yet, before posting anything on the website about the disease, I wanted to wait until a flare hit. The flare has been going up and down for the past few days, but now that it is in full effect, I am ready to…
Reward of setting goals with an illness
Blank Pain Stare? Do you know what that is? When you are in so much pain you cannot laugh or cry. All you can do is stare blankly at nothing and wait for the pain to pass…whether it takes hours or weeks. Sometimes sleep temporarily helps, other times nothing..and I mean nothing helps. Sometimes when…
Paingry: The effect pain has on moods
Chronic Pain comes with all sorts of secondary effects on the human body. One can only take so much for so long before it breaks them. For those who don’t understand; Imagine: you are at home on a friday night, with a really bad cold and instead of being allowed to relax you have to…
Endometriosis: The Fear of Pregnancy
Lately, everyone I know is getting pregnant or is already a mother… Now, I am only 23 years old but watching my high school friends (and everyone I am in contact with lately) have kids and it is starting to stress me out. I cannot help but think what I am doing wrong? If anything? I…
What is Ankylosing Spondylitis?
Picture Credit: Picture Credit: A few weeks ago I came out about my recent diagnoses (osteoarthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis). While many people were very supportive, others sent me lots of questions asking me what Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is…and instead of answering every single person individually…I decided to put this as my second blog post. AS is…
Figure Skating saved my life
Life started dramatically changing in 2014. I was on the ice on a daily basis. Yet, I was no longer able to achieve the goals I had been aiming for since I started when I was five years old. I started to have full body pain and was severely exhausted. it felt like my body was…
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