A place of well-being

Here she discovered the mysterious land where her mother had grown up. The Andaman Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, a jungle, a paradise. Here she found inspiration in Dickens for historical essays. To this day, "The Christmas Carol" was her favourite story at Christmas time.

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Sex and Fibromyalgia

It's best not to start talking about getting intimate again when you are in bed. Doing this can put a lot of pressure on the conversation. Do it on one of those better days, when you haven't had any doctor's appointments or difficult situations to manage and have less pain. Of course, it is difficult to plan when that will come together. It can be liberating for both concerned to talk about their fears, their frustration, their emotions. You might find that once you have found the courage to raise the subject, your partner doesn't want to talk about it. Just starting the conversation with your partner by saying that the symptoms of fibromyalgia make it difficult and you would like their help in finding a way to become intimate that is doable for both, could be an example for a door opener.

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Loneliness

For the first time in humans, it has been shown how both hunger and loneliness share signals in a deep area of the brain. This area determines impulses for reward and motivation. What the researchers found is something we have all been experiencing in our own bodies, in our own souls at different levels for the past year. Rarely has evidence-based explanation been so quickly at hand.

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