Painiac: The Podcast On Living Well Even When Life Hurts

About Painiac: The Podcast On Living Well Even When Life Hurts

Painiac, the first podcast about mindfully living with chronic pain, is a free resource for people living with chronic pain or illness. Painiac is for people living with chronic pain and the awesome people who love them. We also explore what it means to live with various types of pain whether it be emotional, mental, or physical, and we share inspiring stories of other painiacs who are learning to live well even when life hurts. With host Shelly Jackson Buffington, listeners learn about topics such as managing expectations, asking for help, working with limitations, talking with your doctor, confidence, and self-care. Painiac features conversations with inspiring people across the globe who live with pain and thrive in spite of it. In each episode, Shelly shares simple and practical tools to help people reframe their relationship with pain and other challenging life experiences. To learn more, visit www.painiacpodcast.com.

Publisher

Painiac: The Podcast on Living Well Even When Life Hurts by Shelly Jackson

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 May 2016

Latest episode

27 Oct 2020

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2020

   Painiac 302 | Calming Body Scan with Shelly

   Chronic pain and illness come with their own inherent stressors, and with 2020 shaping up to be one of the most challenging year in most of our lifetimes, we could all use more moments of calm and ease. This is why Shelly recorded a short, guided body scan meditation to help you soothe and relax during these trying times.

2. 

   21 Aug 2020

   Camisha Jones | The Poetry of Pain

   I love poetry. It reminds me of music, in away that it has its own deep language and it has the power to move you like music does. When I came across poet Camisha L. Jones’ work, I was immediately moved and struck by its power and heart. I knew that I had to invite her on Painiac to share more of her art and her story. I hope you enjoy this conversation, and I know you’ll enjoy her poetry. Accessibility: to read a transcript of this episode, please go to: https://bit.ly/3kiPeTd ----- Camisha L. Jones is the author of the poetry chapbook Flare (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and a recipient of a 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship from The Loft Literary Center. Through both, she breaks silence around issues of disability as someone living with hearing loss and chronic pain. Her poems can be found at The New York Times, Poets.org, Button Poetry, The Deaf Poets Society, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Typo, Rogue Agent, pluck!, Unfolding the Soul of Black Deaf Expressions, and The Quarry, Split This Rock’s social justice poetry database. She is also published in Let’s Get Real: What People of Color Can’t Say and Whites Won’t Ask about Racism, Class Lives: Stories from Across Our Economic Divide, and The Day Tajon Got Shot. A fellow of The Watering Hole and a representative of Slam Richmond at the 2013 National Poetry Slam, Camisha is Managing Director at Split This Rock (http://www.splitthisrock.org/), a national non-profit in DC that cultivates, teaches, and celebrates poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes social change. Find her on Facebook as Poet Camisha Jones and on Twitter and Instagram as 1Camisha. We talk about: The intersection between chronic pain and social justice Living with a chronically ill body and the grief that comes with learning how to live with a body that’s no longer like what it used to be. Writing as form of release and catharsis and pain management Enjoy the episode!

3. 

   7 Aug 2020

   Season 3 | More Painiac Coming Your Way

   As I always say, pain is universal, it’s a part of our human experience; and Martha Beck reminds us that “Hey, if you wanted a life without pain, you came to the wrong planet.” So, remember that we’re all in this together, OK? Tank you for listening, and be well.

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