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…
Category: Self-Care
Got These In Your Self-Care Toolkit?
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…
How To Handle the Bad Days
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…