America’s Chronic Pain Problem
What if your individual experience of pain is connected to a wider and deeper collective wounding? Is this connected to America's chronic pain problem? Nicholas Kristof wrote an essay about…
S6 E14 | Lessons for Healing in a World That’s Sick with Lyndsey Medford
What do our bodies tell us about ourselves and our world? And how do we listen? Lyndsey Medford, author of My Body and Other Crumbling Empires, talks with Amy Julia…
S6 E11 | Chronic Pain’s Untold Story with Dr. Haider Warraich
Pain is more than a physical sensation; it has cultural, relational, and spiritual dimensions as well. Dr. Haider Warraich, a cardiologist and the author of The Song of Our Scars,…
The Song of Our Scars
So many of us are carrying so much pain in our bodies and minds, which may be why I am loving The Song of Our Scars by Haider Warraich (it…
When Pain Remains
A few weeks ago, I had a mild panic attack. My neck and shoulder had been hurting all day. But all of a sudden, the pain became almost unbearable. I…
Talking About Pain: Helpful or Harmful?
Last week, I read a series of seven articles in the NYT that considered chronic pain from a variety of different angles. As someone who has been working on a…
AJB Recommends: Resources for How to Stop Pain Loops
Sometimes pain gets stuck in our bodies when it doesn’t need to. Our brains try to protect us by telling us we are in pain, but sometimes the protection feels…
S4 E3 | How Brokenness Brings Healing with Katherine Wolf
Can God truly heal, redeem, and transform brokenness? Katherine Wolf, coauthor of Suffer Strong and co-founder of Hope Heals, talks with Amy Julia about the reality of disability and pain,…
S4 E2 | Where Is God When the Pain Won’t Stop? with Liuan Huska
Liuan Huska, author of Hurting Yet Whole, talks with Amy Julia about chronic pain and illness, experiencing wholeness while living in suffering, and the relationship between community and healing for…
