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I Choose Grit
a space to share our heavy burdens
  • small victories while regaining strength
    chronic pain | exercise | minisode | Pain Management

    Actual Progress When you’re in Chronic Pain

    Byichoosegrit June 12, 2024February 26, 2025

    For a life in chronic pain and illness, celebrating mini victories is absolutely necessary. Along my walk with chronic pain and illness, despite attempting every treatment modality known to man, reaching that all-time goal of being in no pain has…

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  • Chronic Pain Survival Kit
    Blog. | chronic pain | community | exercise | Lifestyle | Pain Management | socializing | suffering | work

    Chronic Pain Survival Kit

    Byichoosegrit May 19, 2024February 26, 2025

    As a spoonie/migrainer/potsie/whatever else you want to call someone who deals with chronic health issues, it’s taken a whole lot of experimenting to know what coping mechanisms out there work best when it comes to the physical, emotional, & spiritual…

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  • What it Really Feels Like.
    Blog. | chronic pain | Hope | My Journey | Pain Management

    What it Really Feels Like.

    Byichoosegrit April 16, 2024February 26, 2025

    2024 Edit of this post: Republishing the post from 2019 below, which I revisited recently while doing some blog revamping. While rereading this, I was so struck by how normal my way of operating was to me at the time…a…

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  • work and exercise with chronic pain
    chronic pain | community | exercise | Lifestyle | minisode | Podcast

    Minisode: a real life chronic illness update: work + exercise

    Byichoosegrit November 16, 2020June 17, 2024

    5 months in to my job being regaining strength, I am now just beginning to wade into the world of cardio exercise. So far: the naturally athletic part of me is absolutely LOVING the extra space I have to experiment…

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  • Christmas….and PODCAST!
    chronic pain | Hope | minisode

    Christmas….and PODCAST!

    Byichoosegrit December 30, 2019June 13, 2024

    Christmas for me in a nutshell: Jesus, puzzles, Little Women, burning cookies, fixing my broken car, basketball, catching up with friends from home, and…….PODCAST. What a blessed week celebrating a God that is born into the unexpected the same time…

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