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Category: Paths to Healing

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Can We Heal Ourselves? (3 Ted Talks on Healing)

Posted on March 11, 2020March 13, 2020 by Amanda

It’s funny. When I started this blog, I didn’t think healing from chronic pain was possible. But I stumbled upon Curable early on in my blogging journey, while doing research for posts. It piqued my curiosity and I decided to try it. I’m so glad I did! The neck and lower back pain I’ve had…

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How Acceptance Can Help When You’re Dancing with Depression

Posted on February 5, 2020April 1, 2020 by Amanda

Every winter, for as long as I can remember, my low-grade depression likes to flex its muscles and upgrade itself to moderate status. It’s always lotsa fun. I never know when it is going to try it, either. I never know when one day of feeling apathetic is going to stretch into something more. But…

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Can You Heal Pain by Accepting Your Feelings?

Posted on October 16, 2019March 17, 2020 by Amanda

We live in such an emotionally constipated culture, y’all. We grow up learning, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that feelings are something to be hidden away, unacknowledged. Dangerous. Irrational. Weak. I always felt like I was wrong for feeling my feelings. I was told I was too sensitive. People didn’t know what to say or…

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Unexpected Benefits of Blogging About Chronic Pain

Posted on October 2, 2019May 9, 2020 by Amanda

It’s funny. When I started this blog, I thought I could help people who are dealing with chronic pain. But it was through thinking about this stuff and trying to make the thoughts in my head make sense on paper that I realized that I wasn’t coping with my chronic pain as well as I…

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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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