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Hello my dear friends,

I wanted to share something with all of you that is deeply personal and emotional but at the same time true to who I am and how I find strength and my inner spirit.

Yesterday April 30th, was exactly 8 years ago since my life was changed. It was the same kind of weather and the same smell in the air, it was the day I snapped my spine which was the start of this journey. I say my life has changed and I do not say my life was "turned upside down" or "it was…

The human body is meant to move. Yet a person who experiences intense, persistent pain will probably move less and less over time. He or she is also likely to develop a number of “pain behaviors” such lying down for long periods, using unusual postures to brace against the pain, or favoring one side of the body over another when moving. After a while, these pain behaviors take on…

I like to start this off by saying a simple phrase; we still have fulfilling lives even in the presence of chronic pain. I say this knowing each and everyone of you have a fulfilling life even if you think you…

Too many people have had the experience of recovering from an injury or an operation still experiencing severe pain. They have been assured that they are fully healed and that there is no physical reason for their continuing pain. Yet their experience of pain is very real and debilitating. Such continuous pain lasting longer than six months has only recently been labeled a disease in its own right. It is estimated that the disease of chronic pain afflicts…