How Writing Letters to My Chronic Pain Helps Me Find Relief

Source https://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-writing-letters-to-my-chronic-pain-helps-me-find-relief/

Dear pain-in-my-feet:

I’m sorry we ever met. Remind me where I made your acquaintance? Oh, yes—on my February trip to Death Valley, where I assumed long days of hiking had caused a rock bruise. Instead of healing, you got worse and jumped to the other foot, too.

Thanks for the reminder. It helps. Because I was there in the Valley to grieve my dead sweetheart, Tony, with rituals and tears and a personal funeral. I hate being forced to walk this earth without him. So I see you now for what you really are—grief and longing and fury that my soles keep on treading. Let me cry—okay, wail—for a while. Again. More grief to work through—endless, it seems.

Repeatedly over my life, I’ve suffered bodily pain caused more by stress, anger…