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When You’re in Pain, Exercise Your Brain

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: Rethinking, Reclaiming, and Replacing

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

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...