Overcome Fear of Pain

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 22nd, 2008 • Leave a Comment

My day today started off totally and completely shitty -- beginning at 6:00 a.m., when I awoke from a sense of profound distress:Various body parts were hurting, which reminded me of the medical negligence that caused injury to those body parts, which reminded me of the lack of accountability medical professionals took for injuring those body parts, which reminded me of the resulting psychological distress and financial duress I've been suffering in the process of ...
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Attitude Shift

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

February 27th, 2008 • 1 Comment

A cyber- friend of mine just sent me this little doodad, which is the embodiment of the Dancing with Pain® attitude shift. I don't know who wrote it, but whoever you are, you rock.

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There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she did, and she had a wonderful ...
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Pain and Suffering

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

February 3rd, 2008 • 4 Comments

Everything happens for a reason -- usually a stupid one. Here are my pontifications on pain and suffering, in the scheme of fate, luck, and other questionable forces of the universe. When I was 27, a drunk guy at a nightclub yanked me in one direction, while I was turning another. Out went my back. Three months later, a doped-up driver came into my lane for a game of hit & run, head-on collision -- which, ...
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Suicide and Pain

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

January 27th, 2008 • 1 Comment

I was driving to my bodywork appointment, listening to music on the local alternative rock station, when the DJ announced that celebrity actor Heath Ledger, 28, had died from an apparent suicide. I had never heard of the actor, but I had tears in my eyes -- not just from general empathy, but also from knowing first-hand what it's like to feel you have run out of options, and therefore, out of hope and reason ...
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