Self-care is important for our overall health and although eating right and exercising definitely play a role in your improving your health it doesn’t end at workouts because not all disabled people have the ability work out. Some people take excellent care of their physical...
Tag: chronic pain
How To Improve Your Mental Health If You Live With Pain
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
May 13, 2023
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! When you live with chronic pain people often see how it affects you physically but typically don’t see how it affects your mental health. Mental health is just as important as physical health because if you have poor mental...
When you live with chronic migraine or any type of chronic pain it can be mentally and physically exhausting sometimes and you will have good days and bad ones. Chronic pain flares are unpredictable and often you will sense when a flare might be coming...
Should People With Pain Be Writing Extra Articles To Stay Ahead Of Their Blog?
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
December 2, 2022
When you start a blog it can be hard and take so much time out of your day but after a while, it gets easier and you can create a reasonably long blog post in hours. For most people creating content for your blog is...
How To Make Traveling With A Disability Or Chronic Pain A Little Bit Easier
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
July 19, 2022
Traveling as an able-bodied person can be stressful but it can be even more stressful when you travel with a disability because disabled people have challenges to think about that abled-bodies people would never have to consider. An able-bodied person may find it annoying when...
What I Wish My Family Understood About Chronic Migraine
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
June 8, 2022
It is National Migraine And Headache Awareness Month! Migraine disease is the third most common and disabling disease in the entire world and affects one billion people world-wide but is often misunderstood as a bad headache even by doctors. If you experience chronic migraine you...
How Do You Entertain Yourself When You Are Stuck In Bed?
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
May 26, 2022
When you have chronic pain or are expecting to have a surgery that requires a lot of rest often you spend a lot of time in bed. Surgery recovereries sometimes can leave you bed bound for weeks and although tv marathons are a good option...
Chronic Pain Myths You Need To Stop Believing
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 23, 2022
If You Liked This Post Please Subscribe For Weekly Updates 🙂 When you live with a disability or chronic pain there will always be myths that people go around saying that they believe is true but is totally false. Chronic pain has myths like any...
What You Should Be Telling Disabled People
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
April 6, 2022
In my last post, I talked about a few things that you should never say to a disabled person and there is so much that you should never say that the list could go on forever. There is no shortness of things you shouldn’t say...
How Chronic Sleep Deprivation Affects My Everyday Life
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
March 22, 2022
When you live with chronic or acute pain getting a good night’s sleep can be a struggle. I don’t sleep a lot and on most days I am sleeping around four to five hours. At some point, you do get used to having very little...