29/01/2026
Chronic pain rarely begins as pain.
It often starts in a body that was once familiar.
Capable. Reliable.
Then something changes — an injury, stress, illness, or a season that asks too much for too long.
At first, the body adapts.
It compensates. It pushes through.
Until one day, symptoms stop leaving.
What many people don’t see is the in-between:
The confusion of “Why isn’t this settling?”
The grief of a body that no longer responds the same way.
The quiet strength it takes to keep showing up to life while carrying discomfort no one else can measure.
Chronic pain isn’t a failure of the body.
It’s often the story of a system that has been trying to protect, adapt, and survive.
And the people living in these bodies are not brave because they have no choice in this —
They are strong because they continue, even when choice was taken away.
