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Unmasking Pain: Because Pain is More Than a Chart. It’s a Life.

This Pain Awareness Month, we’re unmasking the hidden realities of chronic pain—beyond charts and scales—to honor lived experience and demand change.

Rate It to Regain It: A Naming Trick for Navigating Chronic Pain and Emotions

When you live with chronic pain or illness, coping isn’t just a strategy—it’s a survival skill. Whether you’re flaring on the couch or masking your pain in a doctor’s office (again), you’re constantly reaching for tools that help you make sense of the chaos happening...

Rising Above Setbacks: Living with Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain involves moments that can suddenly throw you backward. I don’t know about you, but the initial shock of realizing that things are regressing can send my emotions into turmoil. I find myself wondering why—despite all the hard work I’ve done—I...

Live for Today, Despite Your Chronic Pain

Life knows how to jolt you, especially when you have chronic pain. One moment can change your day, possibly weeks, or even the rest of your life. One moment you are feeling pretty decent, and then one twist, turn, jolt, or squeeze can turn that feeling on a dime. For...

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Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain

Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain

My heart breaks when I meet a young person sharing that they are confronting life with chronic pain. At the age of 74, and living with two progressive and incurable conditions, I find it emotionally upsetting to think of the future they must learn...

Should I Consider Having A Service Dog?

Should I Consider Having A Service Dog?

Have you ever wondered about the advantages of having a service dog? If you are living with a difficult medical diagnosis, you might be interested in learning the many tasks a service dog, properly trained, is able to do to help improve the quality...

Let’s Go To Camp! Applications are open.

Let’s Go To Camp! Applications are open.

The U.S. Pain Foundation is thrilled to announce that applications are open for the 3rd Annual Pediatric Pain Warrior Family Summer Camp. This five-day summer camp will take place from June 23 to June 27, 2024, at Morgan’s Camp in San Antonio,...

Winter Snowstorms Create Mobility Challenges

Winter Snowstorms Create Mobility Challenges

When I was growing up, excitement was in the air as a snowstorm approached. The wooden slat sleds were retrieved and waxed, as we anticipated the opportunity to slide down those hills. Plans were made on the design of the snowman we would create in...

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