Here are my top 3 social challenges of living with chronic pain: 1. The Flaky Factor I can never, ever be relied upon for coming through on social plans. All of my friends know and accept this. Flexibility, compassion, and understanding are a prerequisite for anyone even considering hanging out with me. Chronic pain constantly sucks on my energy reserves and can leave me depleted. I have to monitor how ...

Adam, also known as DreamHealer, is a distant energy healer whose first experiences with energy healing inspired me to trust my own. In this interview, Adam answers my questions about energy healing, trust, and personal power. Loolwa Khazzoom: I'm just finishing up your book, The Path of the Dream Healer. You describe how you had a vision of a black, human-size, unusual-looking bird in a very specific location on an island, many miles from your home. ...

Over the past decade or so, as I have schlepped back and forth between California, New York, England, and Israel, I have learned how to minimize pain while traveling. I just contributed a post, "10 Travel Tips for People in Pain," for another site dedicated to natural pain relief. Check it out, and let me know if you have additional tips to share!

Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head and guest columnist at The New York Times, has just written a fabulous article on chronic pain -- for which she interviewed yours truly, along with sassy chronic pain bloggers Jenni Prokopy of ChronicBabe.com and Kerrie Smyres of TheDailyHeadache.com. We love you Paula!

When you find that something you love, like dancing, can be reworked to stimulate chronic pain relief, it makes sense - based on recent scientific discoveries about which parts of the brain carry, amplify, and suppress chronic pain. We know that when neural pathways have been activated repeatedly, nerve signals travel quickly and easily over the synaptic connections that make up the pain pattern, like a train over a well-used track. New brain research shows ...