28/01/2026
🖤💜🖤 A personal update, shared with honesty and openness 🖤💜🖤
I wanted to share something I’ve been navigating lately, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and mild rheumatoid arthritis. I’m sharing this not for sympathy, but so the people I care about can better understand what my day-to-day life sometimes feels like.
There’s a passage from Q’uo (The Law of One) that beautifully captures how I’m choosing to meet this season...
“It is a blessed journey and even the pain of those about you is a blessing as you work in humility with the awareness of yourself as part of a pattern over which you have no control.
Your only control is the choice to love — and that choice of loving is endlessly subtle and always in the present moment.”
Living with chronic pain has been a quiet teacher these last few months. I don’t get to control how my body feels from day to day but I do get to choose how I meet it. How I care for my body. And how I show up for myself and others, moment by moment.
If you’d like reliable information about these conditions, here are trusted Victorian health resources:
🔗 Fibromyalgia – Better Health Victoria
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/fibromyalgia
🔗 Rheumatoid Arthritis – Better Health Victoria
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/rheumatoid-arthritis
Both conditions can be managed. There’s no single “cure” and most importantly, they don’t define who I am. Some days I’ll move slowly because my joints no longer choose to cooperate
Some days I’ll rest and have an LLD and sleep for 4 hours. Some days I’ll need grace when the brain fog kicks in.
If you’re someone who’s shown patience, compassion, or quietly checked in, bless you and thank you. It matters more than you know.
💜🖤 A small ask while I navigate the next few weeks 💜🖤
As I manage the next month on medication and wait for my follow-up with the rheumatologist, what helps most right now is fairly simple:
😇Patience if my energy or plans fluctuate.
😇Flexibility and understanding if I need to slow down pouring beers and need assistance carrying slabs or changing kegs.
😇Fewer fixes and more of your presence.
😇Respect for my rest, it’s treatment, not avoidance
😇Gentle check-ins rather than expectations, send a text or visit.
This is a short, intentional phase of observation and adjustment while medication settles. I’m supported medically, listening closely to my body, and taking this step by step.
If you’ve already shown kindness, patience, or quiet care — thank you. It truly helps more than you might realise 🖤💜🖤
Taking it one day at a time and resting when needed, swearing (internally & externally) when required. Love, Keresten 🖤💜🌻💜🖤
