Aoife Eleafa shares a simple but powerful Lyme Hack: creating a “wellness menu” to reduce decision fatigue and make daily self-care more manageable.
- Create a Wellness Menu
- Chronic Lyme disease can make even simple decisions feel overwhelming.
- A “wellness menu” gives you pre-planned self-care options to choose from.
- This removes the stress of deciding what to do each day.
- Break It Into Time-Based Options
- Have options for different energy and time levels.
- For example: a 30-minute, 10-minute, and 5-minute activity.
- This allows you to care for yourself no matter how you’re feeling.
- Reduce Pressure and Build Consistency
- Eliminates the feeling of “am I doing enough?”
- Encourages consistent, realistic self-care habits.
- Small actions—like tea, a walk, or meditation—add up over time.
Aoife’s approach is a reminder that healing doesn’t always require big actions—sometimes the most powerful progress comes from small, consistent steps.
“It helps alleviate the pressure of ‘am I doing enough?’ and gives you simple ways to care for yourself each day.” – Aoife Eleafa
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This 2026 Lyme Hack was recorded during Tick Boot Camp’s coverage of the inaugural Stories That Heal: Author Series, where leaders, patients, caregivers, researchers, and advocates came together to advance awareness, education, and hope for the Lyme disease community.
Video Transcript:
Matt Sabatello, Co-Founder of Tick Boot Camp: Aoife from Project Lyme, thank you for joining us and thank you for being a part of Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As you may know, for May, we do a Lyme Hackathon where we ask people to provide their tip, trick, or hack to help the chronic Lyme community in their journey. So, if I had to ask you, what is your number one tip or recommendation for people suffering from Lyme, what would it be?
Aoife Eleafa: I’d say my number one tip is to make a “wellness menu.” This helps to remove some of the decision fatigue of “how do I take care of myself today?” I have a menu that has a half-hour option, a 10-minute option, and a 5-minute option.
That might be a half-hour sauna, a 10-minute walk, or a 5-minute cup of tea and meditation. I can pick an activity depending on how much time I have and how I’m feeling that day. It helps alleviate the pressure of “am I doing enough?” or “what can I do for myself today?”
Matt: What a great answer. Thank you so much, and thank you for all that you do with Project Lyme to help our community.
Aoife: Thank you so much.
Explore more expert insights from our Lyme Hackathon series and discover how healing is possible with the right knowledge, support, and approach on our Lyme Hackathon page.
