Cilantro Lettuce Wraps and Cilantro Dipping Sauce

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
–Yousuf Karsh

My providers kept telling me exercise was a key component to managing my pain and sleeping through the night, but from my perspective, exercising made my pain worse and how would it help my sleep?

There are benefits of stress? Yes.

Sleeping with neck-down central nerve pain is difficult. But I do it—most nights.

“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
―Laura Ingalls Wilder

Success stories excite me! Why? Because it means that one more person who suffers with pain has learned how to live and thrive in spite of it. This is JoAnne's story.

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
—Leonardo da Vinci

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” 
-Anne Harbison

…Where seldom is heard a discouraging word.