You had every intention of going to the gym. You meant to cook. You were going to work on that thing you keep pushing off. And then 7 pm came and you ordered takeout and watched something you didn’t even really want to watch and went to bed feeling behind…

Living with chronic pain is exhausting in a way that’s hard to put into words. Not just the pain itself. The fact that it’s still there tomorrow. Planning everything around it. Explaining yourself to people who keep expecting you to be better by now.Some research shows that between 40% of…

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Some mornings the alarm goes off, and you are already annoyed before your feet hit the floor.Not at anything specific. Just annoyed, and a little flattened underneath it, like the day already feels like too much, and it has not even started yet.People type “why do I wake up angry…

The question usually arrives at a particular hour. Late enough that the day’s distractions have worn off. Late enough that you are alone with it.How much longer is this going to take?There is no satisfying answer to that, and deep down, you probably knew that already. Why Trauma Doesn’t Move…