
Carla Friesen ~ Chronic Pain Co ©2021
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
"Pain is All in Your Head" ... ugh
We can get offended when doctors and practitioners give us the impression that our child's pain is “all in their head.” I think what we are really being offended by is the insinuation that we are “making up” our pain. THAT is definitely not true. Nobody sits at home thinking, “I need attention. I want to lay in bed more. I am going to just pretend that this hurts.” Well ok, maybe we all did that once or twice as a child when we wanted to stay home from school but really,

Carla Friesen ~ Chronic Pain Co ©2021
- May 6, 2021
- 2 min
Slow and Steady. Consistent and Predictable.
When our kids have chronic pain we can get frantic. Frantic to find the root cause and frantic to find the right treatment, specialist, medication, supplement, or food allergy that relieves the pain. If we are lucky, we find that one thing. But more often than not it remains elusive and we get stuck in that frantic mode. That desperation, that adrenaline, that mama (or papa) bear energy, that determination to not stop until we find something is part of our fight or flight