CCI Support Blog

Chronic Crafting Mindful crafting activities such as knitting, pottery, painting, or embroidery, are crucial for managing chronic illnesses because they blend therapeutic benefits of meditation with creative, tactile engagement. These activities foster a "flow" state,...

By Phil Over the last few months, through Mindful Steps to Wellbeing, men’s groups, and my own practices, one thing has helped me deeply: Listening. Listening to people tell the truth about where they are. Some are still very limited. Some are living inside very small...

This month, we hear from two CCI Support members who have generously shared a bit of their journeys with us. If you would like to send a written piece for featuring in our blog, newsletter, and/or social media, please contact [email protected]. The morning of my...

The Finch App is a cute little self-care app that rewards you for checking off tasks with outfits and ‘birdhouse’ furniture, takes the bird on trips around the world, and lets you send supportive messages and reminders to other Finch users. It can be adapted to a...

I learned to appreciate the small things. I resisted it. My heart crashed against it, like waves smashing against a rock - and it hurts,  unfathomable,  wave upon wave. I still dreamt the big things - Momentous things actually. I picked up a small stone. It...

At CCI Support, we recognising the importance of sharing your story—in your own words. We always endeavour to provide a platform for those living with chronic illness who would like to tell us more about their experiences. If you would like your writing to be posted...

Grounding sheets? Do they work? What are even are they? Grounding sheets or earthing sheets are special bed sheets woven with conductive fibres (like silver or carbon) that are said to connect you to the Earth's natural energy, aiming to reduce inflammation and...

They said it was all in your head.Maybe they said it with a smirk,a shrug,a cold wave of certaintythat hollowed you out,left you smaller than before. They didn’t see the nights you shook.The mornings your body refused.The terror of not being believed—not even by your...

Before I got sick, I did not realise we had birds in our garden. I did not know that the myna has a hilarious bob in his song. That my ‘happy place’ bird from my childhood is a barbary dove and likes to ‘hang out’ on the power lines and gutter opposite our house in...

Everyday I fight Invisible Dragons. My disability fences me in. But to all but a few the fences are invisible.  I sat on the store furniture because I could not walk all the way around the store. No customer courtesy chair was provided. I am not old, although I...