We can only bounce back so many times before we need to be picked back up
Revisiting something I wrote in April 2020 on chronic pain and resilience
MyCuppaJo
Making sense of pain and trauma through science and stories. Advocating for health equity and the integration of lived knowledge into the study, research, and treatment of pain and chronic health conditions
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