Chronic illness changed your life - let's figure out what comes next.
A chronic illness can disrupt identity, certainty, and direction. Through existential coaching, we explore what remains, what matters, and what is still possible.
Existential coaching for people with fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and other chronic and invisible illnesses.
Nice to meet you
I'm Romina Stiglitz, a life coach specialising in chronic and invisible illness. I live with fibromyalgia and colitis myself, and I know chronic illness not as a concept but as daily reality. I support people working to understand who they are again and how to live a meaningful life alongside illness. The question 'who am I now?' is one I know from the inside.
When chronic illness changes more than the body
Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and other invisible illnesses reshape identity, autonomy, work, relationships, and future plans. Many people are told to cope, adapt, or stay positive. Few are given real space to examine what was lost - and what can be rebuilt. When your energy is limited, every choice costs something. The question isn't how to do more - it's how to live in a way that honours who you are now.
A rehabilitative and existential approach to chronic and invisible illness
My coaching is designed specifically for people with fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and invisible illnesses - people who know limited energy not as a metaphor, but as a map of daily life.
Rebuilding identity
Exploring who you become when chronic illness has changed the life you knew. Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS don't just change the body - they change the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
Grief and making meaning
Honoring what was lost while finding what still carries meaning. Living with invisible illness involves real grief - even when not everyone can see it.
Capacity-fit life design
Building a life designed around your actual energy and resources - not the energy you used to have, but the energy you have now.
Clarifying values
Reconnecting to what matters most when everything has changed.
Psychological flexibility
Developing the ability to adapt without losing yourself.
Sustainable decision-making
Choices that respect your limitations and your priorities.
The one thing they all share
Fibro, EDS, POTS, ME/CFS - all the acronyms share something in common: there's no cure. Nothing makes them just go away. What actually gives us a good life is pacing - learning to spend our energy on purpose instead of running out of it. Here's a closer look, for you and the people who love you.
Spoon Theory
The classic budgeting map for managing limited daily energy.
Fibromyalgia
Living with widespread, invisible pain and sensory sensitivity.
ME/CFS
Understanding persistent, non-restorative fatigue that sleep doesn't fix.
Invisible Illness
Navigating the emotional cost of being sick when you look fine.
Central Sensitization
When the nervous system becomes hypersensitive and learns to amplify pain.
POTS
When standing up sends your heart racing and the room tilting.
EDS
When the glue holding your joints together is too loose to hold.
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