You Are Not Alone

HEALTH, LIFESTYLE & LEISURE

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As a previous teacher, a teller of stories and a mother too, I understand the power of poetry, of compassion and of well-delivered advice and guidance. Of the feeling of having someone there to hold your hand, to help you through difficult times…

I also understand the daily struggles of people with such debilitating, painful, fatiguing and confusing conditions as ME/CFS and Long COVID. I have been there; I have previously been diagnosed with both chronic conditions and have had the NHS sessions to support recovery from both Long Covid and ME/CFS. I have also done my own research, the mind-body work necessary, and recovered myself.

Now I am here to support you and to show you that you are not alone in this.

I hope this book brings hope to many and support and guidance too!

Everything I say is backed up with quotes and information from experts and recovery programme founders. My narrative leads the book and my own recovery leads the structure and content of the book. The poetry offers compassion, support and guidance too and brings some light relief and hope to the darker days of these conditions.

I believe this book offers compassionate and very human advice, which is both valuable and necessary in a world where the medical profession is often at a loss in how to help us.

Poetry was a coping mechanism and then a way out of chronic illness for Victoria. She then started taking notes from every podcast, video, interview, and recovery book she read or watched and increasingly realised she had the makings of a book to support others; a kind of recovery manual which offers empathy, support, guidance and advice.

Victoria felt a calling to bring this knowledge, understanding and belief in healing from such a complex set of conditions to the wider audience.

She empathises with and validates the experience and daily struggle of others with conditions such as ME/CFS and Long Covid, conditions she has managed to recover from herself, using a mind-body approach.

The book is split into two parts: Illness – current science-based information and theory, plus her own journey with ME/CFS and Long Covid; and Recovery – with strategies, healing tips and mindset support, plus heartfelt poetry. Victoria’s own poetry permeates the whole book; it combines her healing advice and her own journey in verse.