Exercise Creates Energy

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 26th, 2008 • 2 Comments

I recently turned into a slug. I simply did not have the energy to go to the gym and exercise, because, well, as far as I was concerned, the world had turned into liquid cement, and I was having one heck of a time just crawling through it. The very thought of moving faster than a snail's pace was exhausting. Besides, I reasoned, exercise sucked so much time...
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Body and Spirit

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 20th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Days after the Passover retreat, crumpled in bed from pain, I spoke on the phone with my friend Jessica, who was about to go rollerblading with her boyfriend. “Fuck it,” I declared out loud, hanging up the phone. “I’m going to go rollerblading too. Maybe not today, but I will get there. I will.” Fuming under the covers, frustrated by what my life had become, and still fresh with the possibility that an alternative was out there, ...
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Mindfulness Meditation

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 20th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

It had been an especially hideous week: Just days earlier, my left contact lens had ripped while I was pulling it out – leaving a third of it inside, lost somewhere, and burning my eye; and the weekend before, I’d vomited uncontrollably after taking a sleeping pill for insomnia. Like it wasn’t enough that I was suffering from chronic pain -- with degenerated discs pressing nerves up and down my spine ...
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