ðŠI create resources to help people adapt to living with chronic illness so they can thrive.
ð When tracking your energy makes things worse
|
Hey there Reader, Something I've been thinking about lately â and finally wrote about this week â is how energy tracking advice almost always skips the part where it tells you what to do when the data doesn't lead to a fix. Most of it assumes you're starting from neutral. That a bad day is an outlier to troubleshoot. That if you just find the right system and stay consistent, you'll get ahead of your crashes. For a lot of us, that's not how it works. And when tracking is built on that logic, it stops feeling like useful information pretty quickly. It starts feeling like a record of everything you haven't been able to fix. The new post this week is about that gap â and about a different way to think about what tracking is actually for. Not a performance review. A map. If you've tried tracking and ended up feeling worse, or if you haven't started yet because it already sounds exhausting, it might be worth a read. Read it now: How to Track Your Energy With Chronic Illness Without Making Yourself Feel Worseâ Talk soon, |
April Smith | The Thriving Spoonie
ðŠI create resources to help people adapt to living with chronic illness so they can thrive.
Hi Reader, I've been thinking about the moment when the question changes. Not "why do I feel this way" â but "is this just how it is now." If you've been there, you know the difference. The first question assumes there's a findable answer. The second has stopped assuming that. This week's post lives in the space between those two questions. It's about why most symptom tracking attempts fall apart (and why that's not a consistency problem), what pattern recognition actually looks like when...
Hi there Reader, Can I tell you about a recent dinner at my house? Frozen chicken. Microwave mac and cheese. A bag of frozen broccoli. There was a vegetable on the plate, so it counted. And honestly, that was the whole standard that night. I've been thinking a lot lately about the gap between what pacing is supposed to look like and what it actually looks like when you're living inside a real day. The ideal version sounds reasonable enough â know your limits, stop before you're depleted, rest...
Hi Reader, Have you ever had a day where nothing on your list looked that hard â and you still couldn't get through it? That's what this week's post is about. Not the flare day, not the obvious crash. The day that just feels heavier than it should, and you can't quite point to why. I've been sitting with this one lately. There's something in my own life I'm not ready to name specifically, but it's been quietly occupying space in the background of every day. And what I keep noticing is how...