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How To Make Workouts Work For You

Posted on March 6, 2019February 18, 2020 by Amanda

Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with exercise. On one hand, I feel better when I incorporate movement into my daily life. It can feel good, both physically and emotionally, knowing that my chronic pain hasn’t completely taken away the joy of moving my body. It’s also nice to realize that there is…

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Got These In Your Self-Care Toolkit?

Posted on February 13, 2019February 17, 2020 by Amanda

Self-care. Come on. You know the basics. Say it with me: Get plenty of sleep! Eat healthy foods! Exercise! We all know how important self-care is. It’s even more important for people dealing with chronic pain. It’s also trickier, because self-care is often a moving target for us. Some days we aren’t going to be…

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How To Handle the Bad Days

Posted on January 30, 2019February 17, 2020 by Amanda

Pain is like white noise. It’s always there, and you can always tune into it, but most of the time it fades into this weird background static that you can kind of ignore. And then there are the bad days. Instead of a pain volume of 3 or 4 that you can tune out, some…

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Hi! I'm Amanda. Recovering perfectionist. Overcoming depression, anxiety, chronic pain. Pragmatic dreamer. Work in progress. Worshipper of cats.

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