Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia
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Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia
The world-leading team at The Optimum Health Clinic offer strategies to support healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia.
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Why inspiration matters
Therapeutic Coach Alex Howard talks about the importance of finding ways to stay inspired on the recovery path, including listening to stories of peop...
AMA Part 3
Alex continues his Ask Me Anything list of questions from participants on Facebook and the Facebook Community Group - this week covering issues around...
New Beginnings
"Courage isn't the absence of fear, courage is the ability to take action and keep moving forward in spite of the fear." On the eve of announcing the...
Set goals you can achieve
As we turn into the New Year and think about the goals we want to set, Alex gives advice on the kid of achievable goals that can be explored with ME/C...
Dealing with overwhelm
Alex addresses a common worry amongst patients - especially with the recent Fatigue Super Conference - that when starting a new program or course ther...
Surviving the Holidays
Alex offers some tips on how to approach the holiday season as strategically as you can by communicating your needs, acknowledging your boundaries, pa...
Ask Me Anything Part 2
Alex answers questions directly from users on Facebook, discussing the achiever type and the inner critic, how to address anger and resentment with ME...
Why work with a practitioner?
Solving the individual puzzle of ME CFS and/or Fibromyalgia for each patient is a very complex problem in the personalised medicine approach. In this...
Ask Me Anything
Alex takes questions from The Optimum Health Clinic community group about recovering from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia and updates about the work at the c...
Don't forget the big stuff
Alex discusses the importance of taking a step back to look at the bigger habits or themes in our life that cause ongoing stress that need to be addre...
The Power of Self Awareness
Being able to understand our own issues, limitations, and challenges helps us find the best techniques to allow us to heal and grow. Having a lighthea...
Do we need to fix everything to be well?
In this Facebook Live session, Alex dispels the idea that we have to become perfect before we can heal. There are SOME issues that will need to be res...
Healthy Living James' Recovery Story
James became ill with ME CFS in 2010, so ill he was bed-bound and his father had to carry him to the hospital. With support from his family, James slo...
It's not what you do, it's the way you do it
Alex talks about the difference between using the tools to feel better and focusing on the state of mind we are in while using them. Having an awarene...
The OHC's approach to supplements
Alex talks to Helen Lynam, previously the Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic, about our approach to supplements, why we recommend what...
Use the carrot not the stick
Motivation is usually stronger when we are moving towards things that we want, versus trying to avoid negative consequences. Finding inspiration to mo...
Paulie's recovery story
Paulie from the Netherlands shares her story and recovery journey through ME/CFS. Beginning as a teenager, Paulie suffered from anxiety, IBS and sever...
The boring middle way
Finding the balance between being sensible about our recovery and being very driven and disciplined with our tools can be a challenge. Navigating the...
Paddy's recovery story
Alex talks to patient Paddy who at the time of this recording was in the late reintegration stage of the recovery process from ME/CFS. Paddy discusses...
The importance of support
The isolation of chronic illness can change and reset many of our relationships. The people and activities that used to make sense for our life no lon...
Commitment and Surrender
Commitment and surrender are two keywords that are essential in the psychological approach to healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. Both words can be...
Gemma's Recovery Story
Gemma shares her recovery story with Alex, from starting to feel ill with a viral-like illness she couldn't recover from to acknowledging and working...
Use technology don't let it use you
Founder of The Optimum Health Clinic Alex Howard discusses the benefits and pitfalls of technology as both useful and overly stimulating tools. The im...
Embrace the tortoise
In this week's Facebook Live, founder of the Optimum Health Clinic Alex Howard uses the fable of the tortoise and the hare as a metaphor for recovery...
The boatload of recovery
Just as multiple factors often are involved when one falls ill with ME/CFS (the overloaded boat), the process of recovery also includes multiple facto...
We are all messed up
Once we begin to do work on our own patterns and issues, we can feel like we're more "messed up" than other people - Alex reminds us that everyody has...
You can't fill up someone else's emotional well
Energy depleting relationships tend to follow a pattern of having to constantly support or hold up another person in a co-dependent relationship. Help...
The body's innate wisdom
Being chronically ill can mean all of our conscious attention is usually on the things that are not working. Alex gives the suggestion to also give mi...
5 stages of meeting our needs
Alex Howard discusses understanding our own needs, including emotional needs, and how we might look to get those needs met. Alex discusses the tendenc...
The importance of practices
Following up on the importance of the basics, Alex discusses the importance of practices - the practical activities we need on a day to day basis to e...
The importance of the basics
Alex talks about the importance of the fundamental basics of recovery in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - deep rest, staying in a healing state, and fundame...
Episode 68 - Two types of pacing
Alex mentions a simplified view of two different kinds of pacing based on data and rational planning, versus the more intuitive body based way of paci...
Episode 67 - Change state, change perspective
After a holiday with his family, Alex talks about returning to London with a fresh perspective on some problems and situations - and how having a new...
Episode 66 - The 5 P's
Alex expands on his 5 P's in recovery: Practice, Patience, Persistance, Perserverence, Precision. These 5 P's can be used to help patients between ses...
Episode 65 - Dealing with the inner critic
Marie from the Psychology Team talks about how to recognize our inner critic thoughts and how to be our own best coach and support system.
Episode 64 - Set goals you can achieve
As we turn into the New Year and think about the goals we want to set, Alex gives advice on the kid of achievable goals that can be explored with ME/C...
Episode 63 - Surviving the Holidays
Alex offers some tips on how to approach the holiday season as strategically as you can by communicating your needs, acknowledging your boundaries, pa...
Episode 62 - Cultivating a Positive Mindset Part II
Alex expands on last week's introduction to building a positive mindset in recovery from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - including the increased emphasis o...
Episode 61 - Cultivating a Positive Mindset Part I
Inspired by the World Cup and the Thai cave rescues, Alex talks about cultivating a mindset through hardship that allows for a helpful interpretation...
Episode 60 - Facing Fear
After the OHC fundraiser at the high ropes course, Alex talks about facing fear on the path to recovery from ME CFS and Fibromyalgia. Find out more ab...