I have been a blogger for many, many years and I also write fantasy fiction. To me, there is something very powerful about creative writing when it comes to chronic pain management. Both when it comes to writing about my pain and when it comes to engaging in creative writing, which is fundamentally a passion … Continue reading Writing about your pain
A Chronic Voice: May prompts
Join A Chronic Voice for blogger May Prompts! Prompts for May ForeseeingPanickingUpbringingAccessingSoothing This month of May is a very high awareness month. Here are some of them: I tend to focus on Fibromyalgia and Mental Health month since they impact me the most. However EDS since I have Joint Hypermobility syndrome and issue with that … Continue reading A Chronic Voice: May prompts
World Poetry day: It took
This is an older poem I wrote and I now present it to you for World Poetry Day. I am no poet but I do from time to time feel in the groove to write poetry. And some are good and some not so good. But what counts is it sort of helps me work … Continue reading World Poetry day: It took
Poem: Life Story
So I have been thinking a lot about the things we do to cope, our acceptance, and the things we do long-term to deal with illness. The changes we go through and the realizations we have over time. There are so many things we cannot control. The pain. External forces we have to deal … Continue reading Poem: Life Story
Poem: Shattered
This poem is a migraine poem. I wrote it with a migraine about migraine onset. Shattered Blue, black, and red stars dance behind the mind Pain shatters within and breaks the world apart. What can I do but, crawl through infinity, to a new day to rue. Here comes Blue But Nothing Matters Shattered … Continue reading Poem: Shattered
Name by any other name #MHAM #MHAMSMC
How does naming your attacks help you cope, or does it help? I don't really name my migraines. I call them 'brutal', 'intense' or 'killer'. Or curse words. Or just use the pain scale. It was a 8er or 9er. That sort of deal. To be honest, when I am in a lot of pain … Continue reading Name by any other name #MHAM #MHAMSMC
