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When you feel overwhelmed, a thought can sound like a warning. It becomes difficult to separate what is happening, from what you fear might happen. Sometimes a helpful starting point is a fact you can return to: a thought is not a prediction, and feeling urgency does not prove something is urgent. Here are a few reminders to help you put some space between what your mind is telling you and what needs your attention right now . . . Stress can make concentration or decisions ha

There is a kind of afternoon that feels familiar to many of us with POTS. You are lying down because your body has asked you to. On days when you are hurting or exhausted, the mind can become a place of frightening questions. What if I’m still like this next month? What if I cannot do the things I love again? How long can I keep feeling this way? I know how real those questions can feel. I used to follow them as though an answer might be waiting at the end. I only found mysel

When Your Body Frightens You When you live with POTS, you can become afraid of the smallest things. Not because you are weak, but because your body has given you reasons to be careful. You remember the times you sat up and felt the room shift. You remember how quickly an ordinary moment became difficult. Soon your mind begins checking on you before you have even moved. I know that feeling. I know what it is like to lie down and feel more like myself, then wonder what will hap

A Telling is something I struggled to find a name for at first, because it isn’t quite a meditation, and it isn’t simply a story. It is a deeply expressive and poetic piece of spoken writing designed to feel as though the words are spoken from your nervous system or internally - TELLING you how it feels. Putting language around emotions, thoughts and sensations that can be incredibly difficult to explain when we are the ones living amongst them. I created Tellings after years

One of the most interesting things I have learned about the mind is that it can be remarkably bad at recognising when the day is over, because while we may have finished work, closed the computer, walked through the door and changed into something comfortable, somewhere behind our eyes the day can still be humming at full volume. I used to think this was simply overthinking, but I have learned over time that our brain is particularly good at holding onto anything unfinished,