Making Household Chores Easier with Chronic Pain: Cleaning Hacks You Can Actually Use When you live with chronic pain, even the simplest household tasks can feel overwhelming. Cleaning, cooking, and organizing may take more energy than you have on any given day. But keeping a home doesn’t have to mean adhering to traditional standards or…
Establishing boundaries is one of the most important things to do when experiencing chronic pain. Living with chronic pain can be an exceptionally daunting and depleting experience. It can impinge upon each part of your life, from work to relationships, and it can be arduous to determine how to cope with the pain on a…
Why you need a pain coach No matter how you look at it, life with chronic pain is hard. A pain coach can make it easier. Endless medical visits with few solid answers. Treatments that are partial solutions. As the weeks, months, and years pass, hope gets hard to hold on to. We often fall…
Trauma and… Our traumas, experiences, and environments all have an impact on our nervous system. We are wildly aware of the tissue damage that can and does occur, including arthritis, aging, wear, and tear. We know what the scans pick up. I’ve said over and over, scans are a moment in time, a piece of…
Desensitization…. ok… why do I need that? I have no doubt there are people reading this series on movement thinking, but Amy… I can’t move. You are right, I should move. But everything I do hurts. This post is for you. Hang in there, there is hope even in the darkest places. I promise! Desensitization:…
Balance activities for chronic pain and are one of the four types of exercise along with strength, endurance, and flexibility. Ideally, all four types of movement/exercise would be included in a well-balanced life. We need all these elements to live within our world and when starting to move beyond the pain, we need to focus…
Medical diagnosis of Chronic pain and chronic illness can wear us down and make pain worse. Remember who you are.
