Mental toolkit for overwhelming times
As I’ve said before, much of brain-retraining has to do with speaking to the primitive parts of the brain in ways it can’t ignore. Being… Read More »Mental toolkit for overwhelming times
As I’ve said before, much of brain-retraining has to do with speaking to the primitive parts of the brain in ways it can’t ignore. Being… Read More »Mental toolkit for overwhelming times
The same thinking that underlies racism, sexism, and classism underlies the thinking that says, “Hey, let’s get rid of health care coverage for those who… Read More »Related: health care coverage, economic policy, and racism
A friend I’ll call A died of suicide last night. It’s easy to say of people that they are rare and radiant souls once they’re… Read More »Losing Our Angels to Suicide
In CRPS and dysautonomia, several parts of the brain get under- or over-enthusiastic (or both, unpredictably.) It’s easy to oversimplify, but even more confusing; each… Read More »Handling anxiety and its obnoxious little friends
Note – For legal reasons, this article is explicitly labeled an opinion piece. Quotes are used with prior permission of the author. I’ve written of… Read More »Un Crossed
Here’s a little gem I found while cleaning up my hard drive. It’s from early last year… =========== Each year, 80,000,000 (that’s eighty million) Americans… Read More »Pertinent pain data
Had a dream of a remarkable wolf. It said it was from an extinct ancestral species. There were great mountains around us. I got curious… Read More »Himalayan dreams
Debbie died yesterday. She was a never-failing source of encouragement and intelligent support on one of my key online CRPS support groups. She died on… Read More »Refocus on what works: In memoriam