Tag: Chronic Pain
Is your room contributing to your insomnia? Free printable to identify the top causes of your insomnia and how to avoid them
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…
Top 10 Inspirational Quotes About Chronic Pain & Joy to Motivate You Through the 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…
Graphic Novels About Chronic Pain: “Pain Is Really Strange”
Graphic novels about chronic pain are few and far between: “Pain Is Really Strange” is a welcome find I love books, especially graphic novels. I was at the library recently and stumbled on “Pain Is Really Strange,” one of the only graphic novels about chronic pain I’ve ever seen. (Thanks, Austin Public Library!) Explaining “What…
Acupuncture for Pain: Complementary Medicine That Works
Acupuncture for pain is one of the oldest forms of treatment out there: this ? can help chronic pain, neck pain, lower back pain, nerve pain, and a lot of non-pain related issues as well. Read on to learn more about the history and science behind acupuncture, and to find out how it can help…
Best Quotes About Chronic Pain, Disability, & Mental Health
Life with a chronic illness or disability is hard– hell, life alone is hard, and those of us with chronic pain are carrying a heavier load than most. But a lot of the “inspirational’ sayings about chronic pain and mental health challenges are too sweet or too sappy to be helpful for my sarcastic, sardonic…