Pacing Strategies: What's In Your Envelope

•The Envelope Theory advises, understand that you have a finite amount of energy to accomplish activities of daily living. Each activity of daily living requires a certain amount of energy. If you perform a total amount of activities that require more energy than you have, then you are living ‘outside your energy envelope’. Under the Envelope Theory, a person with FM (PWF) must learn to ‘live within his/her energy envelope’. In other words, do a total of activities that will utilize less energy than you have to expend so that you have energy reserves. I worked with Dr. Renee Taylor, Ph.D. way back when as a patient consultant. Dr. Taylor was collaborating with Dr. Leonard Jason, Ph.D. and Access Living Center for Independent Living of Chicago on the CFS Empowerment project. I learned the Energy Envelope Theory during this time. The Envelope Theory "encourages people struggling to live with Fibro to accept their daily energy limitations and not exceed or fight them."

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