Stressors & Triggers Posts
Changing Seasons and Back to School
Many people look forward to a change in seasons. So much is happening. We experience the change in weather, hours of daylight, and vegetation. But the transition is not always an easy one. Changes in seasons often bring major changes—the beginning or end of a school...
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...
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...
WRAP for Chronic Pain: Good for What Ails You
I Don’t Recall Signing on for This When I was young girl, allowed to spend time in the world of make-believe with nowhere else to go in my reveries but the land of tomorrow, I pretended to be a princess. I dreamed about becoming a bareback rider or an actress...❤ Follow Us
