Healing from Chronic Fatigue: The Amazing Impact of Self-Compassion
āIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.ā ~Dalai Lama
In my mid-thirties, my active and adventuresome life as a broadcast journalist collapsed. It began with a trauma, followed by flu-like symptoms that stuck around for thirteen years. Almost overnight, I lost the pep to walk around the block, much less file reports for the evening news.
A battery of doctors diagnosed me with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), among other diagnoses. They said Iād have to live this way since there was no reliable cure. I became one of the …