Category: Living with Physical Health Conditions
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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Living by your values when chronic illness limits your body
Chronic illness can take your goals, but not your values. The difference between a goal and a value, why losing goals hurts, and how to keep living by what matters when your body has changed.
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Why acceptance isn’t resignation (when you have a chronic illness)
A clear look at what acceptance means in therapy for chronic illness: what gets misunderstood, what it actually involves, and what changes when the wrestle eases.
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Therapy for chronic pain: what it can actually do (and what it can’t)
An honest look at what psychological therapy offers when chronic pain isn’t going to resolve. What the work involves, what it doesn’t try to do, and when it might be worth a conversation.
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Health anxiety & chronic illness: why standard advice backfires
Standard health anxiety advice assumes the threat is imagined. When you have a chronic condition, the clinical work needs a different starting point
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Medical Gaslighting Is Real: How Therapy Can Help
Find a therapist who understands medical gaslighting in the UK. Learn how therapy helps rebuild self-trust after NHS dismissal and develop flexibility for better healthcare navigation with chronic conditions.
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Brain Fog and Derealisation with ‘Normal’ Scans
Experiencing brain fog and derealisation despite normal MRI results? Explore the unique psychological challenge of living when you can’t fully trust your own mind.
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Palpitations Panic: The PVC–Anxiety–PVC Cycle
Trapped in the PVC anxiety cycle? Learn why benign heart palpitations feel terrifying and discover practical strategies to break the fear feedback loop.
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How To Talk To Your GP When You Feel Dismissed
You sit in the waiting room, rehearsing what you will say. Your heart races as you hear your name called. Within minutes, you feel the familiar sinking sensation. Your GP is rushing, not listening, suggesting it is “just anxiety” or stress. You leave feeling unheard, frustrated, and alone. This experience of feeling dismissed by your…
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When Scans Are Clear But The Pain Is Real: Next Steps
You have sat in that waiting room, again. You have described the pain, again. And the results have come back clear, again. “When scans are clear but pain is real” is one of the most searched phrases people type after a normal MRI or clear X-ray. If you have reached for your phone at midnight…