Happy New Year to everyone. I am sending you my very best wishes and hope you have better health and lots of happiness. Hopefully, good things happen for you in 2024 and I truly hope that you can look forward with enthusiasm despite your pain or chronic health condition. I…
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Emotional & Mental Health
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Search for Rainbows During Storms
When there’s a storm, we often focus on the heavy, dark grey overbearing clouds, but whenever a rainbow appears, it lifts our spirits. Rainbows are like a beacon of hope. Sometimes in life, we need to try to focus less on those clouds and search for rainbows instead. This applies when we go through any worrying or stressful situation, but right now, in the midst of this pandemic, we need to search for rainbows.
Chronic Pain
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Be Proud of all Achievements When You Live with Pain
When people live with chronic pain or illness, very often they have low self-esteem. They often see themselves as failures and get frustrated because they focus on what they cannot do. But when life is already so difficult, perhaps it would be more helpful to take the focus away from what they can’t do and instead be proud of their achievements.
Chronic Pain
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How to be Positive When Living With Pain
It’s very easy to become down and despondent at times and focus only on the negativity of the situation. Sometimes it can feel impossible to be positive when living with pain. Can Being Positive When Living With Pain Help Us? It can be extremely difficult living with chronic pain because…
Chronic Pain
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20 Ways to Try to Distract Yourself From Pain
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…
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…
Chronic Pain
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Small Things are Actually Big Things when you Live with Chronic Pain
I mentioned in a previous post that I enjoy life despite pain. But perhaps that gives people the impression that I run marathons, paint the town red and shop till I drop every weekend. But it’s not like that. I do enjoy life, but I enjoy the small things in life. I believe that the small things in life are actually big things, especially when you live with chronic pain.