In my experience, the key to learning to work with your pain instead of against it is to learn to view pain as your body’s alarm system. In the global North, most of us are...
At the risk of turning my blog into yet another Shakira fan site, I love this video. I have been having a lot of trouble with my hips over the past few months. It started...
Hope this picture doesn’t gross anyone out– I thought it was stunning. I’m all about cultivating a sense of appreciation for how amazingly intricate our bodies are. I also love creative works that convey this...
The work I’ve done on this blog and the positive responses I’ve received (thank you all so much!) have opened up new ideas for me. In the month and a half since I started working...
I have seen this young man’s photo countless times across the Internet over the past few days, and it’s so painful every time. For those who haven’t heard of him, Aaron Swartz was a genius...
As anyone who’s ever wondered if they have fibromyalgia probably knows, the different specialities within Western medicine are not necessarily on the same page in terms of the way they diagnose and treat pain. Rheumatology...
Fellow pain sufferers, as well as anyone who likes to learn about the body, I can’t stress enough how learning about anatomy and physiology has helped me. First of all, it makes such a big...