Posted in ...and everything else on April 6th, 2013 1 Comment »
I really like this post on body policing, and in particular, how people seem to feel qualified to tell someone with a chronic illness that if they just did X – largely either adopt some quack routine or exercise – that all their problems would go away. In particular, I really liked this: You’d never [...]
Posted in ...and everything else on June 7th, 2011 No Comments »
“Hey, Kelly? Weren’t you supposed to start writing about a week ago, give or take?” “Why yes, Anonymous Internet Voice, I was!” “Well, you didn’t. Why not?” “It’s a bit of a story, Anonymous Internet Voice, but pull up a virtual chair and I’ll tell you all about it…” Okay, cutesy conceit dropped, but the [...]
Posted in ...and everything else on January 16th, 2010 No Comments »
It occurs to me that chronic pain/suffering is the opposite of trust. In fact, it is in many ways the ultimate in broken trust – a broken trust in your body. We have this implicit notion of what the body can be like, and should do. How it should perform, respond, and behave at any [...]