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Manage your energy and your life with chronic illness

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The Spoonie Survival Guide

Manage your energy and your life with chronic illness

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Description

The must-have guide for navigating daily life with a chronic illness. Learn how to feel more confident as you move through the world.

Living with a chronic illness can be exhausting. From making difficult decisions about how to manage your energy (or spoons) each day, to the isolation that comes from finding 'easy' tasks (such as taking a shower) nearly impossible, daily life can be tough. Many of us spoonies would like to manage life better, but don't have the energy – or experience – to know where to start. No-one is ever taught how to live with an illness, after all. Spoonie Jodie K Ranu gets it, and she's here to help.

The Spoonie Survival Guide is your one-stop resource with everything you need to help you achieve the best quality of life possible, whatever your energy levels. Organised into four clear sections – physical health, mental health, financial health and lifestyle – Jodie breaks down how each area of our life can change with chronic illness, and what we can do about it.

Drawing on over ten years of lived experience, Jodie provides practical advice on how to move forward despite things being different. She helps you with:

- Pacing yourself throughout the day
- Coping with medical gaslighting
- Dealing with everyday living, such as cooking and running errands.

Written by a spoonie for spoonies, The Spoonie Survival Guide is your kind and reassuring toolkit for life.

Table of Contents

Part One: Physical health
1. Living with symptoms
2. Living with pain
3. Living with fatigue
4. The art of pacing yourself

Part Two: Mental health
1. Depression and anxiety
2. Medical gaslighting
3. Distancing yourself from unsupportive people
4. Imposter syndrome and self-doubt
5. Burnout

Part Three: Finances
1. Loss of income
2. Hidden costs of spoonie life
3. Education and employment
4. Health scams

Part Four: Lifestyle
1. Social life
2. Leaving the house
3. Daily living
4. Hospital visits and medical admin

Conclusion

Acknowledgements
References and resources
Index

Product details

Green Tree
Published 12 Feb 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781399411516
Imprint Green Tree
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jodie K Ranu

Jodie K Ranu has lived with chronic pain for the l…

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