Healing Days is a sign of the revolution building up in a world hungry for hope.

When I started my pain journey, it was for my patients. I learned helping others helps yourself. I didn’t expect to heal. I didn’t even know I needed healing. I thought was just fine, thank you. But my patients taught me more about pain than medical school. And Bessel van der Kolk taught me about complex PTSD and how stress influences our bodies.

Today, I’m inspired to join an online course to fix my whacky videos, the ones Explaining Pain and the Overwhelmed Limbic System.

In the meantime, if you haven’t, reach out to someone in pain. Form your own pain community. Search for your answers to the story that has led to pain. Some of the biological causes of pain are covered in Types of Pain, but no matter the cause of pain, it can be improved with calming the Limbic System.

I am currently working on a piece I hope to publish soon. It’s about the last 4 months of knee pain I’m having, how hopeless and helpless I felt those first months, how blessed I am to have community to help me heal so that the pain I have now is entirely fine. Some of my writing is all higgle-dee piggle-dee (hmm showing my 62 years eh?) posted on my writing website, Judy Dercksen.

Wishing you community, love, and laughter.

Judy