My Weekend Challenge: Sleeping on the Floor
Beds are a trap.
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You Have to Confront Your Pain to Heal
When you’re hurting, do you feel your pain? Not just tell yourself that you’re hurt, but do you actually and honestly allow yourself to...
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Pain is Not a Competition
“You’re sad? Well I have clinical depression, so that’s like a constant for me.” “Your parents are fighting? At least they’re together,...
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Endometriosis: A Medical Diagnosis That Changed My Life
“It felt like I was in a game of hot potato, being tossed around from doctor to doctor. None of them knew what to do with me.”
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House of Pain: Growing Up With Domestic Violence
Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence I remember getting a call a couple of months ago from my sister telling me that my mother was in the...
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What Does Pain Look Like?
A piece by McKenzi Roe
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My Experiences with Dry-Needling
So a little backstory before we begin… A few years back I was in a car accident where I broke my neck. I had surgery and since then things...
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An Open Letter to my Future Daughter
Dear Daughter, I woke up this morning—day number 13 of quarantine—at 8 o’clock. The cat was screaming and scratching at my door. I’d left...
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My Experience with Endometriosis
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, so here’s a quick rundown on what endometriosis is and my personal endometriosis journey.
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Using Humor to Cope with Stress
There is a famous proverb that says, “Laughter is the best medicine” and I can’t help but agree. After going through a breakup from a long-...
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The Apology I Deserve (A Poem)
You owe me an apology. You owe me an apology for the time you said you’d be there and you weren’t. You owe me an apology. You owe me an...
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Tattoo To Do
Tattoos are cool. Tattoos are creative. Tattoos are inspiring. Tattoos are reminders. And tattoos are permanent. When I was a young girl,...
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BTS Album Review: An Empowering Journey Through Pain and Identity
BTS have been taking the world by storm over the past few years, with their concerts selling out and their albums breaking historical...
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The Time My Body Was on Fire
This semester feels like one hurdle after the next, with no chance to catch a breath. Incessant rain and grey clouds constantly hover above...
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Some Books Require Self-Care
Words are incredibly powerful. Sometimes, that can be painful.
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Kiss of Death
A Creative Piece by Katie Franklin
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Ranking My Piercings by Pain Level
Most Painful
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How to Prepare Yourself to Get a Tattoo
From decision to design to pain
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The Presence of Pain
Pain is one of those things in life that makes its way around to everyone at some point in time. Though it is not exclusive in its presence...
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You're Not Perfect. And That's Okay
I grew up believing that nothing I could ever do was enough. Throughout middle and high school, I learned that to be successful, I needed...
