Author Archives: jenn

Is Stress Causing Your Pain?

Doctors who study pain have hypothesized that there is a link between stress and chronic pain. Recurring pain can cause a sustained stress response, which in turn contributes to the pain, which in turn creates more stress, and so on. A new study has found “that basal levels of cortisol (i.e. stress hormone in humans) […]

On Grief

Recently a member of my family passed away. It wasn’t sudden or unexpected. I had imagined and projected myself into the future to examine how it would be without this person in my life a million times. But in the end I was still completely unprepared when the moment came. My personal experience of this […]