Relaxing your body and calming your mind always helps decrease and help you cope with your pain, whether you're flared-up or in need of ongoing pain management techniques. These range from those that … [Read more...]
When Pain Makes Normal Exercise Impossible—With a Gentle Passive Alternative
Whenever a chronic pain patient reads that they must exercise — and through that pain — it's not only difficult, and of course painful but we can so easily overdo it, which then leads to a painful … [Read more...]
Tools to Cope With the Stress of Chronic Pain & Manage Difficult Thinking
When you have chronic pain, it's natural to struggle with unhelpful & repetitive thinking. Move from a place of struggle & sadness to one of coping with these tools & tips. When our … [Read more...]
How to Cope When Chronic Pain Affects Friends, Family & Social Life
When our lives have been so devastatingly altered by chronic pain and illness, with not a single facet untouched, the support we receive from friends and family becomes all the more essential. But one … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Weather the Internal Storm of Chronic Pain and Not Let it Define You
Pain is so all-encompassing, so constant, and overwhelming, it can be difficult to detach the pain from everything else in life, especially when it so deeply affects everything in life. From the … [Read more...]
Supplements to Help Banish Brain Fog
Brain fog, also known as fibro fog, can be one of the most irritating symptoms of chronic pain conditions, and complex illness. Though it's especially prevalent in chronic fatigue syndrome … [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...]
When Pain Interrupts Your Sleep
Whether it’s from a sore lower back or throbbing tooth, pain is hard enough to deal with in the light of day but at night that robs you of your much-needed sleep can take exhaustion to a whole new … [Read more...]
Natural Therapies to Help You Manage and Cope with Chronic Pain
There are so many natural therapies for chronic pain — from massage to myofascal release, osteopathy to acupuncture to craniosacral therapy, from learning how to practice t’ai chi in a chair to … [Read more...]