Coco as a Baby! “A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a […]

This is a guest post by Cassandra Russom relating chronic pain to a traumatic experience and how fighting chronic pain can lead to a type of “Survivor’s Guilt.” Survivor’s Guilt. Wikipedia says, “Survivor, survivor’s, or survivors guilt or syndrome is a mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did […]

In keeping with the topic of theories about chronic pain, I would like to present “The Flip Flop Theory,” written by Cassandra Russom.  This theory is geared a little more toward how to HANDLE pain ourselves, as opposed to explain it to others, but the more we educate ourselves and the better we understand hot […]

  September is Chronic Pain Awareness Month! As a therapist/social worker, and a someone who lives with chronic pain, September is my new favorite month. Some of us (and/or our loved ones) are dealing with Chronic Pain and/or disability on a daily basis. Sadly, our pain does not end come October 1. I had an […]

  Sex and chronic pain are not exactly synonymous.  And talking about the effect of chronic pain on one’s sex life and intimate relationship is what you might call a “hush, hush” or taboo topic.  However, many people living with chronic pain may feel alone, confused or even embarrassed by the issues that pain has […]

“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross) I have spoken a lot about the last two years of my life because of the back surgeries and chronic pain, but there were 31 years […]