The Chronic Illness Recovery Podcast

There’s something people with M.E/CFS often carry quietly:

Guilt.
Guilt that you can’t do what you used to.
Guilt that other people have to help you.
Guilt about your partner.
Your kids.
Your family.

And sometimes that turns into an even heavier thought:

“I’m a burden.”

I talk about this in my latest podcast.

Not just the guilt itself — but why it can become so heavy during chronic illness and what you can start doing differently.

If you’ve been beating yourself up because of everything you can’t currently do, I think you need to hear this one.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

There are days during M.E/CFS recovery where that thought can suddenly appear:

“What if I never get better?”

Maybe you’ve been doing well.

Then you have a setback.

Symptoms increase.

Something doesn’t go to plan.

And suddenly all the belief you had disappears.

If you’ve experienced that, my latest podcast is for you.

I talk about something that I think is really important:

You don’t have to feel completely confident about your recovery every single day.

Doubt can show up.

The question is what you do when it does.

I unpack that in the new episode.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

What if I make myself worse?

There’s a fear I hear constantly from people recovering from M.E/CFS:

“What if I make myself worse?”

You think about going somewhere.
Doing a little more.
Seeing someone.
Trying something different.

And your mind immediately starts running through everything that could go wrong.

That can make it incredibly hard to trust yourself.

In my latest podcast, I talk about fear and anxiety during recovery — why it can become so strong and how you can start rebuilding confidence in yourself again.

If fear has been making your recovery feel smaller and smaller, I think this one will help.


Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

Will you be the same person after M.E/CFS?

Something interesting can start happening as you move through recovery.

You don’t just notice changes in your body.

You start noticing changes in yourself.

Maybe you’re more present.
Maybe little things mean more.
Maybe you’re questioning what you actually want from your work, relationships or future.
Maybe the life you desperately wanted back doesn’t even feel like the life you want anymore.

I recently got a beautiful question from one of our members about exactly this:

How do people change through M.E/CFS recovery?

I answer it in my latest podcast.

It’s a very different conversation about recovery and I think it’ll give you a lot to think about.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

The loneliness of M.E/CFS
One of the hardest parts of M.E/CFS can be something nobody else sees.

The loneliness.

You can have people around you and still feel completely misunderstood.

Or you might genuinely be doing most of this on your own.

Either way, it can feel incredibly isolating.

In my latest podcast, I talk about this side of M.E/CFS — including what to do when the people around you simply don’t understand what you’re going through.

If you’ve been feeling alone in your recovery lately, I think this one will resonate.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

You’ve been working hard on your recovery.

Things finally start moving forward.

Then life happens.

Stress. Family. Work. An unexpected situation. A difficult few weeks.

And suddenly it feels like everything you worked so hard for has disappeared.

Your brain starts saying:

“I’m back at square one.”

But are you really?

I answer that in my latest podcast and show you what to focus on when life gets in the way and you feel like your recovery has gone backwards.

If you’ve had a setback recently, I think this one will really help.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

After 17 years of helping people with M.E/CFS, there are certain questions I hear over and over again.

Can I actually recover?
Why am I not getting better even though I’m trying everything?
Am I doing too much… or not enough?
How do I know if I’m actually improving?
And how long is this going to take?

So I decided to sit down and answer 10 of the biggest M.E/CFS recovery questions in one podcast.

If you’ve been confused about what you should actually be focusing on, there’s a good chance I answer something you’ve been wondering about.


Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

There’s one question that can become surprisingly exhausting when you have M.E/CFS:
“How are you feeling?”

Because it rarely feels like a simple question.

Suddenly you’re explaining your symptoms.

Why you could make it to something yesterday but can’t today.

Why you might look fine even though you don’t feel fine.

And by the end of the conversation, you’re exhausted from trying to make someone understand.

In my latest podcast, I share a simple way to answer these questions without over-explaining yourself.

Plus, how to set boundaries when friends or family keep giving you advice you didn’t ask for.


Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form 

Most people with M.E/CFS know whether they feel better or worse.

But very few know what stage of recovery they’re actually in or what they should be focusing on next.

Over the past 17 years, I’ve seen the same patterns show up again and again.

So I’ve mapped them into 12 levels of recovery.

From feeling completely sick, suffering and lost…
To rebuilding your strength and confidence…
To eventually moving beyond recovery and living your life again.

In my latest podcast, I walk you through all 12 so you can see where you might be right now and what comes next.

Here are 4 ways we can help.

1. Join our free community to meet others, be inspired, and get more recovery info - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfshealthrecoveryhub 

2. Watch the newly released past members "Guest Panel" Workshop where they share their top 5 recovery secrets - https://www.cfshealth.com/guestpanelreplay 

3. Get our free most popular recovery trainings:
- Find your baseline - Stop pushing and crashing - https://www.cfshealth.com/baseline 
- The 3 stages of recovery and what to do in each one - https://www.cfshealth.com/the3stages 
- The "9 do's and don’ts" PDF - to decrease symptoms and improve energy - https://www.Cfshealth.com/pdf 

4. Want to help professionally with a step-by-step recovery plan specific to you? Fill out the application form and the team will send you the details - https://www.cfshealth.com/form