How to Manage Chronic Pain

​People have been asking me about how I manage to live with chronic pain recently, so I figured I would compile some ideas and resources that have helped me on my journey. 

First, I need to note that I am not pain-free and don't believe I will ever be pain-free. That was the first obstacle that I had to address. For me and many others with complex chronic conditions, pain can be mitigated to an extent, but we may never reach a state of being completely pain-free. 

I'm not saying that to sound pessimistic, but realistic. It's not helpful to blindly believe that there is some cure-all remedy to make everything miraculously better. Pain cannot be prayed away, medicated away, or exercised away. Unfortunately, the human body is indeed failable, and we live in an imperfect world. These are simply facts.

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