Tag: Featured
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What Star Trek Got Wrong about Geordi’s Disabilities & Chronic Pain
I went down a rabbit-hole of articles about Geordi La Forge’s disabilities to bring you the a few ways Star Trek really messed up.
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This tool really explains your health insurance in actual English
Understand Your Health Insurance with MyAI.Health I’ve wasted thousands on healthcare I didn’t need to pay for—because I couldn’t understand my health insurance. After years of wrangling doctors, pharmacies, and endless insurer PDFs, I still got lost in the jargon. Those documents might as well be puzzle books written by lawyers. If I’d understood my…
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10 Quotes About Chronic Pain & Joy to Motivate Your New Year & Beyond
This post was updated in March 2026 with more info on some of the quotes. 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…
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Useful Holiday Gifts for People With Fibromyalgia
Gifts for people with fibromyalgia that truly help make life easier 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…
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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…
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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…
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How To: Dating With Chronic Pain or Dating With Invisible Disabilities
Dating with chronic pain is tough, especially if there’s nothing visible about your condition. Finding someone using dating dating apps like Hinge or Tinder is hard to begin with, but dating with a disability, especially invisible illnesses, adds a whole other level of difficulty. In some ways using those apps would be easier if I…
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Best Quotes About Chronic Pain, Disability, & Mental Health
A lot of “inspirational’ quotes about chronic pain & mental health are too sweet or sappy to be helpful for me. I’ll keep updating as I find more quotes that are encouraging without being… too much. (I promise, no “live laugh love” posters.)
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Pain Scales (1-10): How To Explain Your Pain
1-10 Pain scales have real limitations: keep the bigger picture in mind when using a 1-10 scale to measure your pain.
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Chronic Pain, Weight, & The Challenge of Getting Through The Damn Day
Stuff like anger, stuff like weight gain, stuff like frustration, stuff like anxiety– it’s all tied in together. And none of it lends itself to a 1-10 pain scale.