Pain in the Brain
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Drum Head: Playing Through My Chronic Pain
But pain and pleasure intertwine in playing the drums, much as they do elsewhere in life.
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Longing for the Water
Swimming has saved me over and over again. But this time it cannot.
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How Meditation Helped Me Feel More Comfortable in My Body
How sad that I couldn’t regard myself with more kindness before, but how necessary it felt now that I was in constant pain.
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The Headache Diaries
The diary was how I organized a life suddenly thrown into chaos. This is what the human mind does; it looks for a narrative, for meaning.