When you have constant pain, it's no secret that trying to get to sleep - and stay asleep - is far from simple. Sometimes we're wired from the pain all night, resigning ourselves to the endless … [Read more...]
Caring for Caregivers of Pain Patients: Interview for Partners and Carers
An Interview on How to Cope for Caregivers of Pain Patients A conversation with Guadalupe Palos, R.N., L.M.S.W. Q: What challenges do caregivers face? A: The most common challenges facing … [Read more...]
Reduce Pain by Breathing into the Body with the Body-Scan
A wonderful technique for everyone who lives in pain to know is the body-scan. I wanted to share this practice in the hope it helps you too, as having now been using the following, adapted … [Read more...]
Why Laughter is the Best Medicine When You Live in Pain
Constantly coping with pain, hiding its intensity from others and trying to maintain hope despite so many fears, makes living with pain a tricky business [and a highly one stressful too]. Add the … [Read more...]
How to Use Pain Psychology Techniques to Reduce Anxiety, Depression, Anger and Guilt
People suffering with chronic pain and illness can naturally spend a lot of time thinking about how their pain is affecting their lives, every single part of their lives. Pain can make you feel like … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Reduce and Manage Brain Fog
Brain fog or fibro fog can be one of many frustrating aspects of living with severe pain and chronic illness, frequently an embarrassing symptom too. From fibromyalgia to CRPS to a whole catalogue of … [Read more...]
Herbal Healing: Herbs that Help Chronic Pain & Illness
Herbal Healing: Herbs that Help Chronic Pain & Illness Because complicated pain conditions such as CRPS and fibromyalgia have such an extensive list of symptoms, utilising the equally extensive … [Read more...]
How to Cope and Heal Depression When You Have Chronic Pain and illness
Nothing can affect us so deeply as our emotions. When those emotions become dark and us isolated in both pain and depression, it can seem impossible to find our way out of the darkness. Depression … [Read more...]
Pain Poetry | Drown My Pain, Not My Spirit
Drown My Pain, Not My Spirit How odd how perverse that all which is missed the routine the humdrum the week's shopping list that I once called painfully, mind-numbingly dull seems now like a … [Read more...]
But You Look Good: Living with Disbelief of Invisible Illness and Pain
Each time we are told that we 'look good' or 'look well' by people who have little concept of even the lengths we have gone to just to connect with them at all, it carries with it an additional pain … [Read more...]