Tiny Acts of Discipline

So, as I mentioned earlier, I have been working on a little project and I shall now reveal that project. Yay!

Tea & Whiskers first little pocketbooks 'Tiny Acts of Discipline' are available now in our brand new online Bookshop.

As you may recall, a couple of months ago I mentioned that I was debating about going back to the Pain Clinic. Well, I did end up going back for that first workshop and...it...didn't go great. They hadn't changed their approach at all, and I don't agree with the very strong focus on rehashing the past and discovering your 'trauma' from the 'past' to try and uncover that has caused your pain to overcome it.

I think is this an extremely negative approach, and I won't have anything to do with it.

As I sat in the workshop, the world closed in around me and I felt this immense despair. They wanted me to go to workshops with people, to discuss my problems and my past, with whole groups of people. No. I'm not wasting my precious hit-points on group-therapy.

This approach perhaps works with people who aren't autistic, but as I said to my mother - when you find fibromyalgia in people who are are autistic, everything changes. I will perhaps write something about this at a later date. But right now, I will just say, I walked out of the workshop so deflated. I'd forced myself to go, and I had been hopeful - but - nothing.

The next week, I went to go see a rheumatologist that I saw when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I was hoping he would give me stronger pain medication, but instead he dismissed everything I said and offered me a medication that I would never take. Why? Because I react negatively to medications. This have been proven time, and time again.

Yeah - so - I had a bad few weeks in which I felt like nothing had changed in the medical field. I felt pretty down about it all. Thus, I decided to do something positive!

I asked myself what would have helped me, and how to combine that with what I am capable of doing. Thus, I came up with 'Tiny Acts of Discipline: GYM DAYS' - a little pocketbook that I can slip into my gym tights to track pain and progress at the gym.

Then I thought, well, I really want to start walking again, because that is something that I fell off the wagon with in the last six months due to how bad my pain has become. But pain will be with me no matter what I do, so, I may as well start walking again. Therefore, I created Tiny Acts of Discipline: WALKING DAYS - to track my walking.

I much prefer the idea of having a physical booklet. I know these things can be done electronically now, but there is something so much more real and meaningful when I can see something written in a booklet and tracked over time.

You don't have to have chronic pain to get value out of these little booklets, the GYM DAY's booklet I created very much in mind for anyone who goes to the gym and just wants something small and cute to put in their pocket.

As time goes on, I am sure I will add to the collection of Tea&Whiskers Pocketbooks but for now, I hope you like the first two.