I usually know when the pain is already high the moment I awaken.  The familiar signs tell me it’s more than just a tougher day.  It heralds the onset of

One word has arisen each time I’ve held seminars on living well with chronic pain:  Grief.  It’s a companion that has come to the table for so many of us living this experience.  As a follow-up to my last article, I‘ll dive deeper into this emotion and why it’s one we shouldn’t be so tempted to

For those of us who live with chronic pain, it’s easy to fall into that insidious trap sometimes — the one that tells us, “it’s all over.”
Sometimes that voice arises early on, at the onset of chronic pain, and sometimes it resurfaces

Tending the Inner Garden: Self-Care and Self-Compassion with Chronic Pain
Transforming Self-Care from Surface Rituals to Soulful Reverence

There came a point in my chronic pain journey when I realized: I’d spent years tending to everyone but myself.
I knew how to push through, show up, and take care of others. But when pain made that impossible, I had to face something unfamiliar — the quiet invitation

Let’s talk about writing as both creative and therapeutic practice. It’s a topic that many of us are familiar with in the broader sense, and it can be an incredibly rich portal for

I’ve been thinking a lot about sound and music as a therapeutic medium, and I wanted to share some reflections with you.

The power of sound has been a source of fascination and a recurring theme in my life for as long as I can remember. In addition to the emphasis

I wanted to share a bit about art as a therapeutic practice in my own life, and to invite you to explore this as well in yours.

Growing up, there was always an emphasis on art in my family and in our home. There were books on art we loved to look at, and trips to the art museum

I wanted to let you in on a little secret:  This is a new journey for me too.  .  Well, not the pain part….that’s been in my life since 2016, and I’ve reconciled with the likelihood