Pain Medication: Blessing or Curse? As a holistic bodyworker, I often find myself lamenting what I consider the overuse of pain medications in our society.  During my training in Craniosacral Therapy, I was taught that pain is the “voice” of the body, trying to “tell” us that something is out of balance on some level…

“You can’t make grass grow faster by pulling on it.”  I don’t remember where I first heard this saying, but it’s become one of my favorites related to healing. It seems we all want to heal on our own terms.  We naturally want and expect our body to feel better, the pain to go away,…

There are a lot of things that can cause pain, some more obvious than others.  For instance, if you break a bone or sprain an ankle there’s a natural pain response from the body that makes sense.  But many times, especially with chronic pain, it is much less clear cut than that.  It’s often hard…