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Chronic Pain & Trauma: Gently Breaking The Invisible Link with Science
"The body's intelligent. We just have to show up. I equate it to a dance where the body leads and I follow." —Peter Stuart
You can run from nagging pain, but it keeps showing up in new ways—wrecking sleep, fouling...
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How Real Connection Supports Healing (Even When You’re Exhausted) with Heather Nelson
“Push your life to be the life that you want and not accept that it's just the way it is. Every choice that you make should be toward loving the life that you have.” —Heather Nelson
Connection isn’t just a...
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The Science of Rest— What the Lipkin Study Taught Us About ME/CFS
“Pace first, safety builds capacity.” —Donna Piper
There’s a kind of tired that sleep can’t fix, a crash that feels invisible to everyone but you. You push, you pace, you try to “do all the right things,” yet your...
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Beyond the Diagnosis: Reclaiming Life and Purpose With Lipedema with Hiba Hamati
"Trust your instinct… Our bodies sound an alarm bell that something isn’t right, and we ignore it for years. Don’t ignore it. Don't accept the bare minimum answer. Just because your labs are normal does not mean...
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If Only I Were Skinny…
"Your body is not the enemy—the world's impossible standards are. And every time you name that truth out loud, you don't just free yourself, you also free someone else.” —Donna Piper
Some lies are so loud they...
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How Trauma Rewrites Pain, Part 2: When Fight or Flight Gets Stuck
"If trauma rewrote the wiring one way, that means safety relationship and somatic practices can rewrite it the other way— it is the long game; there is no quick fix.” —Donna Piper
Sometimes you do everything right,...
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Dollars and Cents: The Real Financial Stress of Being Sick
"I'm not my bills. I'm not my debt. I am worthy of care." —Donna Piper
Being sick isn’t just exhausting—it’s expensive in ways nobody warns you about. The stress of medical bills, insurance denials, and endless...
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How Trauma Rewrites Pain, Part 1: My Body Kept Score
“Moving is medicine. There's something with moving that you don't need to know why or how, or how it relates to your emotions or trauma. And just like how trauma rewrites pain, it is also the opposite when you feel...
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Pacing 101— Stop the Boom-Bust Cycle Before It Stops You
"No one's handing out a gold star for the most depleted woman in the room… Rest now, rest every day, build that in. The rest is the healing aspect." —Donna Piper
Tired of feeling great one day, then totally wiped...
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Medical Trauma is Real Trauma— Healing from Healthcare
“You're not overreacting, you're healing in a system that was never built for your complexity— that makes you a damn warrior… Let's normalize naming the pain without being entangled in labels of being traumatized.”...
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Clearing the Fog— How the Lymphatic System Supports Lipedema & Healing with Tina Shin, OTD
"If you are going through a struggle with lymphedema, lipedema, or anything related to your lymphatic system, don't be afraid to do your own research and be your own advocate." —Tina Shin
What if the most important...
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Let SEO Work While You Rest with Brittany Herzberg
"It starts with you. What do you want to get found for? What do you want to open your schedule and see, and what projects do you want to be working on?" —Brittany Herzberg
Feeling invisible online or too tired to...
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