Tag: PainRehab
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What’s the difference between a service dog, therapy dog, and emotional support dog?
Service, therapy, & emotional support dogs are very different from each other. Learn how!
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Brain fog? Try humming it out.
Stimulate your vagus nerve. Try humming to refocus when you have brain fog.
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Cyles of Five: Another Way To Disrupt Anxiety
Cycles of Five is a simple technique to break pain and anxiety cycles.
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Five Finger Breathing
Stress and anxiety make pain harder to cope with. This simple technique uses no tech and no equipment. Just use a finger and a hand to help you time and slow down your breathing. Focusing on the touch can make it easier to focus on breathing. You can repeat this exercise as often as needed.…
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In Gratitude to Kind Teachers
We all know that in the United States under the American Disabilities Act, children have the right to a public school education. Many of us also know that what makes or breaks the success of this initiative is teachers and administrators. Some fight rules. Some hit the letter of the law but begrudge and guilt-trip.…
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The 1step2life Podcast
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Beating yourself up about parenting?
I have studied parenting on five continents for close to four decades. I’m also a mom — the mom of two sons, one of them who is very sick. I know what it is to beat yourself up about not being a perfect parent. But too many parents beat themselves because they are trying to meet two entirely different, incompatible, and…
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Podcast: Parenting a Child With Migraine
I am so honored to be interviewed for the Living With An Invisible Injury podcast. Listen here:
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Supporting Parents of Teens & Children In Pain
I’m reading a book called The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. It’s a fantasy – a parable really – about regret and depression and building a better life. Sounds odd for a book I picked because it was billed as ‘a feel good novel’ about a life well lived, doesn’t it? Did I mention that…
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Tiny Steps Towards Reducing Stress
Some days are worse than others. That’s just how it works. You can wake up today feeling refreshed and inspired to put your best foot forward. You can do all of your recommended exercises, eat all the “right” foods, think all the “right” thoughts, and still have pain flare-ups throughout your day. We can never…
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Sleep & Pain Rehab
Pain Rehab: Building Strength To Push Back Pain People living with pain are most successful at taking back their lives when they take an active role in their recovery. (That’s one of the reasons that 1step2life focuses on emotions, activities, and functioning.) For most of us, there is no ‘magic jelly bean’ that will suddenly…
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We’ve Launched! The Weekly Check In
Everyone’s pain is different and everyone is in a different place in their journey.
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5% of US teens live with life altering chronic pain
Acute pain is protective. With chronic pain, the pain itself becomes the disease.
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Taking Back Your Life
1step2life started with my son’s experience with severe chronic migraine disease. It made no sense to log pain when the pain is always there. What he needed was something that helped him celebrate his victories – making it to school, getting the mail, turning down the pepperoni pizza and sticking to his low tyramine diet.…
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Control Your Focus
I’ll be honest. I spend my life crazy stressed. I have a job that my husband describes as ‘flexible – you can work any 60 hours a week you like’. And then I have two more jobs – I am Editor in Chief of the Journal of Adolescence and I’m also starting this company. And…
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Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this.
Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this! Well . . . don’t do this.