by CCI Support Admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Members Voices
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...
by CCI Support Admin | Dec 10, 2025 | Members Voices
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...
by CCI Support Admin | Dec 10, 2025 | Members Voices
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...
by CCI Support Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Members Voices
There is a quiet strength in being with what is. Not to fix or rush, but to simply acknowledge. This presence is a kind of rongoā (medicine) — soft, patient, and deeply human. 🌙 May you find comfort in your capacity to sit with truth, and return to yourself...
by CCI Support Admin | Oct 7, 2025 | Members Voices
You’re trying. Of course you are. That’s what you’ve always done. Trying to feel better. Trying to be present. Trying to do it right. Trying not to try too hard. (That one’s tricky.) You carry so much hope in your effort. But maybe it’s time to rest the effort, too....
by CCI Support Admin | Sep 26, 2025 | Members Voices
ME/CFS is the merciless unravelling of your humanity — where even the simplest acts, like speaking, sitting up, or thinking, become impossible mountains to climb. In its severe form, it traps you in darkened rooms, silences your voice, and steals the very sensations...