by Sarah P. Jose | Jul 29, 2024 | Chronic Pain, Emotions
I would do anything to change my pain! Maybe you have thought this too. The challenge, of course, lies in the fact that to change our pain, we need to make lifestyle changes. Most of us want to change our pain status…without any significant investments of time or...
by Sarah P. Jose | Jun 23, 2024 | Chronic Pain, Emotions, Stories
Self-pity overwhelmed my mind as I walked a quarter mile to the Brew’s Tavern. Yes, I could walk. Praise God for that. But a quarter mile was nothing to my athletic college friends. Forging a new identity, apart from the “Miracle Girl” label, which was stuck on me in...
by Sarah P. Jose | May 14, 2024 | Chronic Pain, Emotions, Uncategorized
I appreciate your kind responses to my “War-Torn Women” Visio Divina exercise. So many of us can relate on different levels to the need to lament. In this next post, I use the same images to help illustrate what God has taught me about the profound beauty of learning...
by Sarah P. Jose | Mar 26, 2024 | Chronic Pain, Emotions
Well, I guess I’m outcome independent now. Not sure how I feel about that. In his book, The Way Out, Alan Gordon promotes the ideal of becoming outcome independent (not emotionally attached to any specific outcome) in our attitude toward our pain. In the process of...
by Sarah P. Jose | Feb 15, 2024 | Chronic Pain
Former addicts understand how to celebrate small victories. People in physical rehabilitation understand how a movement so small and natural to some can represent weeks of hard and painful work when recovering from major injuries. Today’s story is about a very small...
