Hi Aimee! I’m a new reader here and really enjoy your storytelling along with your illustrations. This post resonated with me. I also live with chronic pain and a couple of summers ago, I discovered I was somehow able to go rock climbing?! That was exhilarating. It was like the pain from climbing masked my typical pains and it felt so, so worth it.
Hi Erika, thanks so much for reading and for the kind words. I’m really sorry to hear that you deal with chronic pain, too. I love this about rock climbing though! It sounds so similar to my discovery. It’s been several years since that day of rafting and every time I get in a kayak the pain goes away temporarily. The mystery of these bodies…
Hi Aimee! I’m a new reader here and really enjoy your storytelling along with your illustrations. This post resonated with me. I also live with chronic pain and a couple of summers ago, I discovered I was somehow able to go rock climbing?! That was exhilarating. It was like the pain from climbing masked my typical pains and it felt so, so worth it.
Hi Erika, thanks so much for reading and for the kind words. I’m really sorry to hear that you deal with chronic pain, too. I love this about rock climbing though! It sounds so similar to my discovery. It’s been several years since that day of rafting and every time I get in a kayak the pain goes away temporarily. The mystery of these bodies…