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Loolwa Khazzoom, the founder and primary blogger of Dancing with Pain®, is a professional journalist, author, creative writer, and editor. Below you will find samples of her writing on chronic pain management and natural pain relief.
Magazines
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Drug-Free Remedies for Chronic Pain AARP Magazine Complementary and alternative medicine for natural pain relief — including movement-based therapies, mind-body medicine, nutritional and herbal remedies, energy healing, physical manipulation, and lifestyle changes. |
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When You Can’t Sink Any Lower Healing Lifestyles & Spas A first-person journey to the Dead Sea for some natural pain relief; an investigative report on the healing properties of the natural sea salts and minerals in the region; and information about Dead Sea products available outside Israel. |
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Shelter from the Storm Yoga Journal After driving over a land mine in her youth, Tsipi Weiner spent two decades in severe chronic pain. Meeting yoga master BKS Iyengar changed her life. Today Weiner is pain-free and directing the Yoga Now/Iyengar Yoga Center of Tel Aviv, Israel. |
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Proactive Massage Massage Magazine Advice for body workers who have clients with chronic pain: Understand the emotional dimension of chronic pain; create a safe space for healing; and help your client utilize other resources. Includes an action plan for clients looking for a chronic pain-friendly physician. |
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Blackpool Lights Shine Kansas City Magazine Blackpool Lights drummer overcomes cancer pain and leg amputation, recording the band’s best album ever. |
Newspapers
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Heck on Wheels
The Washington Post
A first-person account of a three-month stint in a wheelchair, including a cross-country book tour. What are some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs affecting millions of Americans with disabilities?

Women take center stage in Cinderella Classic cycling event
San Francisco Chronicle
A 20-something woman with arthritis takes on the challenge of a 100 kilometer bike ride, in a colorful and entertaining yearly event for women only.
On the Dancing with Pain® blog, you will find a unique mix of personal storytelling, investigative journalism, and political activism, all centered around the theme of living with and healing from chronic pain. Whether revealing the magical powers of dance, exposing common forms of medically negligent behavior, providing nutritional tips for natural pain relief, or getting real about the loss and grief that accompany pain, this blog is raw and uncensored — offering a cutting-edge blend of personal experience, spiritual wisdom, and punk rock attitude.
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