Do you have a really nagging mind? One that chatters on even when you don’t want it to? Making little asides like “You should just keep going”, “you’ll never get through that”, “do you really think your pain is real?”, “what are you going to do about ….” Minds are like that. They hold a…
If you have chronic pain of any type, you’ll know what I mean when I say that half my brain seems to have gone to sleep, especially on days when my pain is intense! There’s a reason for that, and it’s nothing to do with my age. When we have chronic pain, at least some…
Chronic pain is one of the loneliest, most isolating experiences ever. No-one else feels what it feels like to have pain. No-one can tell whether you have really bad pain today, or if it’s just a nuisance pain. Some people think they can tell whether you have “real” pain or not (in other words, they…
Yes! You can get on with life even if you have pain that doesn’t go away. It’s not something you’ll be told by many people, so I’m sticking my neck out to do so. You see, it’s not so much the pain that’s the problem, it’s what the pain means. If your pain means your…
Healthskills for people living with chronic pain 