Living with Chronic Pain and Chronic Fatigue: Coping in Baby Steps

By: Aviva Brandt, editor, Sick Momma

March 21st, 2008 • 1 Comment

There's something about living with chronic pain and chronic fatigue that triggers memories of my adolescence that I'd rather forget, especially that burbling resentment aimed at The Powers That Be. Of course, during my teenage years, those Powers That Be were mostly my parents, who like almost all parents, imposed rules such as curfews and the need to ask permission before going out or taking on any new activities. But these days, it's not my parents, or ...
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Spiritual Meaning Behind Chronic Pain: Interview with Brad Lemley, Editorial Director, DrWeil.com

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 12th, 2008 • 1 Comment

Loolwa Khazzoom: In our last interview, you said there is no spiritual meaning behind chronic pain. Please elaborate. Brad Lemley: I'm a total hard-head about that stuff, and my head gets harder about it every year that goes by. I really believe that, as difficult as it is for people to get their minds around, there's a lot of random stuff that happens in the world.
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Chronic Pain in the Workplace: Interview with Brad Lemley, Editorial Director, DrWeil.com

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

February 21st, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Loolwa Khazzoom: What launched the onset of your chronic pain? Brad Lemley: A bad car accident at age 17 - broke my left femur and put me in traction, took me about three years to stop limping. Within about a year, I began to have awful pain on the left side of my head, probably due to chronically tightening the muscles on that side of my body. LK: How did struggling with chronic pain impact your life? BL: The major impact was that ...
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Balancing Health and Career

By: Laurie Edwards, Editor, A Chronic Dose

February 19th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Very rarely do the things I want to do and the things my body will allow me to do correspond, and nowhere is this conflict more evident than in my career. While the competition between the needs of the body and the desires of the spirit is one that has lasted a lifetime, recent events prove I'm not nearly as enlightened or reasonable as I'd thought I'd become. Let's rewind things a few years. When I ...
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Abandonment Issues

By: Cynthia Toussaint, Founder, For Grace

February 17th, 2008 • 9 Comments

My abandonment issues began in 1969, when my father jumped off of a bridge to his death. I was the middle child of five and quickly began to play a "mother" role to my siblings. I believe it was in part the trauma of my father's death that brought me to my life partner, John. John's commitment has remained absolute for nearly 28 years. I've always known that he would never abandon me, no matter what, and ...
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