Everyone needs to be distracted from time to time, whether from illness, what’s going on around them or simply from life itself. Distractions don’t take the problems away, but they might take your mind off whatever is bothering you. When you’re living with pain, learning to distract yourself from it…
Category: Self-care
Self Help
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Ten Good Intentions to Carry into the New Year
Here we are, celebrating the start of another new year. Each new year, people make resolutions. I’m not so keen on that term. Resolutions are seldom kept. I prefer to write a list of intentions. Good intentions which I will try to carry on in the new year. I really…
Back Pain & Scoliosis
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Learning to Listen to Your Body When You’re in Pain
Learning to listen to your body when you’re in pain is easier said than done. I have lived with pain for most of my life. Chronic severe pain which has been both disabling and debilitating. There have been spells when it’s been extremely difficult to cope with it.
For many years, I tried to fight against my pain which did nothing but make it worse. Eventually, I learned to listen to my body. It didn’t stop the pain, but I was able to cope with it better.