The Journal of the American Medical Association reports 1 in 5 adults live with chronic pain, and a total of approximately 8% live with high impact pain.  If you fall in this category you are not alone.  Your thoughts and your questions might sound something like this:  “How do I cope?

We have much to grieve.  As I write this on March 31, 2021, we are just a couple of thousand people away from 550,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US.  We are also currently in the early days of a trial related to George Floyd’s death, and it reminds us of the problem we have with racism and colorism in the US.