Tag: Chronic Pain
Can you see pain?
Different ways to see pain, even when your condition is invisible Can you see pain? It’s a tricky question! Pain is such a complex and subjective experience, and the word “pain” covers a whole host of very different experiences. It gets even more complicated when you’re talking about chronic pain or illness. It’s not like…
The Best Type of Heat To Help You Feel Better
Types of heat & how each helps pain differently Living with chronic pain can feel like an endless battle, but sometimes, the simplest solutions can offer the most profound relief. Heat therapy may be a time-honored tradition in pain management, but your options have evolved far beyond the humble hot water bottle. Let’s look at…
Migraine Relief W/o Meds: A Huge List of Stuff to Help Your Headache
The ultimate guide to stuff that might make migraines more manageable Stuff to help your migraine… that you can get over the counter?! Yeeeah, seems like a “I’ll believe it when I see(/feel) it” situation. For my entire life I’ve dealt with migraine disease, tension headaches, and sinus headaches so bad I had one surgery…
Exactly what to say to your doctor to get refills on the meds you need
Urgent med refill? Learn how to effectively communicate with your doctor and pharmacy, track prescriptions, and get quick refills. Includes printable script!
For National Mental Health Month, 6 beautiful poems about mental health & chronic pain– & despite them!
Chronic pain & mental health poems that are wise, not sappy Poems about mental health, chronic pain or other invisible disabilities, just like quotes on the subject, tend to be sappy as hell (except those quote pages I put together, of course). And that is extremely not my jam. But something doesn’t have to be…
Is your room causing your insomnia? W/ a free printable to find out!
Using your five senses to figure out if your room is causing your sleeplessness If you’re someone who beds down at night only to stare at the wall, have you ever considered whether your room could be contributing to your insomnia? Not being able to sleep sucks, and the combo of chronic pain and insomnia…
Navigating Relationships with Chronic Pain with Unity & Partnership
Despite whatever conditions are in play, there are ways to find and build a healthy romantic partnership where you thrive as a team. Here’s how! Building a healthy relationship despite chronic pain is a complex dance, one that requires grace, patience, and of course love. Whether it’s you or your partner who’s in this continuous…
10 Quotes About Chronic Pain & Joy to Motivate Your New Year & Beyond
Inspirational quotes about chronic pain that actually resonate with what we’re going through can be hard as hell to find. Living with constant pain or chronic illness is a tough slog, rougher than “able-bodied” people can ever know. Finding the joy in a life filled with pain is more difficult for us, but it’s also…
Surprise friends w/ The Most Useful Gifts For People With Fibromyalgia This Holiday Season
Gifts for people with fibromyalgia aren’t hard to come up with: you just have to put yourself in their shoes. (Hopefully, cute ones.) Though fibro is an invisible disability, that doesn’t make its effects, like chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep issues, and sensitivity to movement and environmental stimuli, any less real. If you had those…
Quotes About Self Care (& Self Care Quotes About Invisible Illness)
Quotes about self-care, especially self-care quotes about invisible illness, are hard to come by. Well, good ones at least– you can find sappy schlock everywhere. But there are also gems, little bits of wisdom that remind me to take time for myself, helping me through the chronic pain of my invisible illnesses. Click one in…
Best Inspiring Quotes About Invisible Illness
Quotes about invisible illness, chronic pain, and disability pride to inspire us all Quotes about invisible illness are too often filled with sappy, inspirational cliches. But that doesn’t change the need that people with chronic pain and invisible disabilities have for guidance, understanding and truth. In the two decades that I’ve been in pain, I’ve…
Chronic pain & trouble sleeping: sleep routines may cure your insomnia
A sleep routine (aka “sleep hygiene): if you have chronic pain, anxiety, ADHD and insomnia (or any combo thereof), like I do, this simple process might just be the “cure” for insomnia you’ve been seeking. “Sleep hygiene” is the process of creating an environment that can help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Here are…