Essays Fibromyalgia Awareness Day: On Masking Pain Every time that pitch-time rolls around at Sweatpants & Coffee and I see a topic like this, I almost always want to write Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 11, 2023
Physical Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, or How I Finally Got Angry After a Decade of Pain Cover photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels This year marks a full decade since I first began experiencing symptoms of Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 12, 2022
Wellness Fibromyalgia Awareness Day Hi, I’m Troy McClure (Jess Grey). You may recognize me from such blockbusters as Invisible Disability and You Don’t Look Jessi-James Grey Posted on May 11, 2020
Life I Didn’t Just Survive the Old Year; I Lived It We now enter the time of year when it seems everywhere, everywhere, people are heartily wishing 2019 a swift “Fuck off.” And Nanea Hoffman Posted on December 30, 2019
Life, Self Care The Gift of Fire: What the Anger Teaches I smelled the fire before I knew what it was. I couldn’t see it or feel it, but the air smelled wrong. An acrid, smoky scent Nanea Hoffman Posted on September 9, 2019
Wellness The Boy In The Playroom When I was seven, I was healed by a miracle. That’s how my parents always told it. The night before, we’d had company. Nanea Hoffman Posted on July 23, 2019
Mental When Your Trauma Doesn’t Fit the Image of PTSD I’ve run a blog for the last five years about the intersection of my chronic physical and mental illnesses and my hopes of Emmie Arnold Posted on June 27, 2019
Connection, Mental The Harm of Fixers | 5 Types of Well-Meaning People You Encounter When Suffering There are people in your life who only like you when you are shiny and happy. They’re there to celebrate your triumphs. They Nanea Hoffman Posted on March 28, 2019
Connection, Life, Self Care Notes From Nanea | Emotional Pain Management I’m thinking a lot these days about pain management. Mitigating pain has been a big part of my life these last few months. Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 2, 2018
Essays What You’ll Remember Previously published on The Next Good Thing. Over the past several years, my mom’s dementia has been slowly Guest Author Posted on July 31, 2018