I’ve always prided myself on being a pretty together person. My body, brain and soul seem to crave more downtime now than I ever imagined. Stress connected with Fibromyalgia isn’t just emotional worries. My body feels stress or pressure when it eats things that it used to crave, but doesn’t want anymore. Being in large groups of loud people is simply overwhelming. You find that you don't like bein
g surrounded by mess, but have no energy to clean it up. Being over-excited for too long drains energy. But it's given clues – Learn to calm your body by using your senses like sound (music), smell (incense), sight (pretty things in the home, touch (baths, hugs) and the sixth sense (i.e.