I am a princess. All girls are.

“I’ve always been health conscious, and now I’m trying to be more well-being conscious,” she says. She’s working to pay attention to her body, slow down, and rest when she needs to... Daisy is, like so many of us, learning to continuously listen to her body, a thing she knows many women are not inclined to do. “We all read the stats about women being undiagnosed or underdiagnosed and sort of coming to terms with saying, ‘I really, actually don’t feel good’ and not going, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine.’ It’s just normalized to not feel good,” she says... If you look at the list of health issues she’s dealt with, Daisy has every right to be bitter or overwhelmed, but in reality, she’s thinking about those who have it worse. “In the grand scheme of things, it’s much less severe than what a lot of people go through,” she says. “Even if you can deal with it, you shouldn’t have to. If there’s a problem, you shouldn’t have to just [suffer through it].”

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a chronic, inflammatory, physically and neurological and immune-mediated disease that presents with symptoms involving multiple bodily systems. It is frequently triggered by a viral infection or a flu-like illness, but other triggers are known to exist. ME presents with symptoms in the central nervous system (CNS), autonomic nervous system (ANS), immune system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system, digestive system, and musculoskeletal system.