{"id":537,"date":"2017-09-12T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:15:51","slug":"fibromyalgia-being-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Blessings in Fibromyalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to see Fibromyalgia as a blessing??? Well, if you have been diagnosed with this horrific illness, I am sure that is the last adjective you would use to describe it.<\/p>\n<p>As a stay-at-home-mother I can assure you that you need to find the good in the not-so-good on most days! Children crying, schedules to maintain, broken dish(es), must needed potty breaks (for you!!!), living in daily pain, cooking, cleaning, etc&#8230;.it may be hard to find joy. But the triumphs are when you get beyond the superficial daily grind and realize there are blessings to be found in the little things. &nbsp;YOUR outlook is vital, not only to yourself, but to those around you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is the blessing of this disease. Did you just read the word <i>blessing<\/i> associated with Fibromyalgia??<\/p>\n<p>Um, why, yes, you read it correctly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You must find the good in the bad or you will go crazy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blessing is that Fibro won&#8217;t kill you, though it feels like it will at times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blessing is that the flare won&#8217;t last, even though when your in the middle of one you can&#8217;t imagine that it will go away.<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The blessing is when the flare is over you cannot really remember how bad it truly was&#8230;until it occurs again. (But that is another story.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Those are blessings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Now, when I am in the middle of a full-swing flare I am not going to tell you I say to myself, &#8220;Wow, this pain is really intense and such a blessing!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">On the contrary, &nbsp;I can assure you. But when your living day to day with chronic pain, it&#8217;s what you think that defines you. The phrase &#8220;there is power of positive thinking&#8221; may be a bit cliche, but it <i>does<\/i> work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Try it and see if you can name a few blessings to your chronic pain condition(s) and let the &#8220;Power of Positive Thinking&#8221; reign in your mind and life!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings from one Fibro to another!<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to see Fibromyalgia as a blessing??? Well, if you have been diagnosed with this horrific illness, I am sure that is the last adjective you would use to describe it. As a stay-at-home-mother I can assure you that you need to find the good in the not-so-good on most days! Children crying,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding the Blessings in Fibromyalgia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph40Aj-8F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814,"url":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1814","url_meta":{"origin":537,"position":0},"title":"May is Lupus and Fibromyalgia Awareness Month","author":"Fibro Momma of 10","date":"May 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, the month of May is Lupus and Fibromyalgia Awareness Month. 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