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What You Can Do If Fear & Stress Are Making Your Chronic Pain Worse

Posted on March 4, 2020April 1, 2020 by Amanda

It is all too easy to focus all our time and attention on our pain, especially on the days where we feel unusually bad. But sometimes, giving our pain center stage in our lives does nothing more than make us more scared, which, in turn, tends to feed the pain and make it worse. So…

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Tired of Feeling Stretched Too Thin? 3 Tips for Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World

Posted on February 26, 2020April 1, 2020 by Amanda

Whether you’re dealing with chronic pain or not, chances are you constantly feel stretched too thin. There is always something that needs to get done, something that needs your attention. But when we’re always trying to put out fires and stay on top of all the things, it is next to impossible to balance our…

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The 3 Most Important Things I’ve Learned Living with Chronic Pain

Posted on February 19, 2020March 8, 2020 by Amanda

Self-care is vital It seems that everyone thinks that self-care is about taking bubble baths and painting your nails. And while those things can certainly be a part of it, self-care is about so much more. True self-care means: getting enough sleep exercising (when and if you can) making sure you are eating enough going…

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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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Feeling Lonely? 10 Tips That Can Help

Posted on January 29, 2020February 21, 2020 by Amanda

Loneliness is an epidemic. No matter the state of your health, it seems harder and harder to find people to connect with these days. To make matters worse, we’ve devolved into a society so obsessed with who is right and who is wrong and who deserves blame that it seems we’ve forgotten that we all…

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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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