Creating & Using Your WRAP Posts
Using Your WRAP to Keep Yourself Centered
Did you get carried away with the excitement over the “eclipse of the century”? Schools and businesses ground to a halt, and small towns in the “path of totality” swelled to many times their usual size. Seeking to capitalize on the excitement, towns held multi-day...
When You’re in Pain, Exercise Your Brain
In Greek mythology, Oedipus saved his own life by answering the riddle of the sphinx: “What crawls on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?” Today, we know that brain teasers like these can save our lives—even if we answer incorrectly....
WRAP for Chronic Pain: Sometimes Suffering is Optional
The final article in this four-part series on WRAP for chronic pain is about dealing with the predictable but not the inevitable. The previous article discussed some of the components of a Crisis Plan that can make difficult times with chronic pain a bit easier to...
WRAP for Chronic Pain: Rethinking, Reclaiming, and Replacing
In part 1 and part 2 of this four-part series, I offered examples of how a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) can lay a foundation for meeting the challenges of living with chronic pain. This is part 3. It’s been said that the definition of a miracle is a change in...
WRAP for Chronic Pain: Negotiating Your Quality of Life
The first article in this series explored the nature of chronic pain, the added misery recent over-reliance on opioid prescribing has wrought, and the mounting evidence that is moving pain management in a variety of new directions. This follow-up article discusses...❤ Follow Us
