10/24/2023
This time 4 years ago, I had one plan and my chronic pain had ANOTHER...
Let me tell you a story.
4 years ago, I was preparing for the road trip of a lifetime 😍
I had just accepted my dream job working at a multi-specialty hospital system, one of the leaders in the field of innovative pain medicine, in California.
To this day, I don’t know what propelled me to apply to a job 3,000 miles away, but I just knew I had to do it.
I come from a small town in New Jersey, where my best friend and I joke around that are more tractors than cars in our zip code 😂
Seriously, that’s South Jersey for ya. There’s a reason they call it the garden state ;)
Between grad school in New York City and working in Philly, I grew up on the east coast.
But I had always yearned to take a cross-country road trip, and this seemed to be my chance.
I bought my first car. A glossy, gently-used Toyota Prius hatchback. And I named her Ebony.
My car was packed to the brim with all the clothes, books, and musical instruments I could fit…
And I left just enough room for my partner Karthik and I to squish into the driver & passenger’s seats up front.
We were giddy with excitement, counting down the months, weeks, then days leading up to our road trip.
And then 3 days before our trip, everything changed.
I went in for a steroid injection to my lumbar spine. It was supposed to be routine. Once every few months, ever since my accident.
But this one had me walking out of the doctor’s office with a hunchback, doubled over in searing pain.
I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand. I felt terrible.
Was it that my body had become hypersensitive?
Or just the entire experience of repeat injections was so traumatic?
Just when I thought I could get back to my bucket list goals, be it the road trip or the dream job, my chronic pain flared up again and I was bedridden.
Karthik was the sweetest partner. I could tell he was just as disappointed as I was. But we knew we had to cancel the whole trip.
I spent the rest of the week vacillating between feeling angry, depressed and numb.
And Karthik helped me cancel all of our AirBnBs and tell our friends we wouldn’t be making pit stops to visit them along the way.
I felt crushed. Like the wind had been knocked out of me.
I was so fed up with medications and steroid injections that either covered up the pain, made things worse, or robbed me of my dreams.
Since that flare-up, I’ve been relying exclusively on self-management, community support, and holistic healing. And I'm devoted to helping other women to do the same.
Because the truth is, we need each other.
I couldn't have possibly healed all by myself. I was scared, overwhelmed, and quite honestly, ashamed to tell people that I was in my 20s with chronic pain...
But with guidance from expert healers, an incredible support system of women, and the grace of God, I’ve had ZERO pain-flares since I hit rock bottom 4 years ago.
And I haven’t needed a single medication or steroid injection ever again.
Friends, sisters, and chronic pain conquerors… let’s heal naturally together.
I hope you can join me this Thursday so I can share with you the 1 simple way I got my life back after chronic pain.
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Because you deserve it 💛