The Social Life of Pain: A Free Drop-In Pain Group
A free online group to come together and connect over the shared experience of being in a body that often hurts.
On Zoom Mondays 6-7:15pm pacific
Pain is a relationship: it’s a relationship you have with yourself.
Let’s come together to work on that relationship in community.
This group isn’t about fixing your pain or learning techniques to manage it.
It’s a space to step back and understand your experience of pain in a broader context, alongside other people doing the same.
Too many of the people I know who live with chronic pain think that the struggles they’re experiencing are entirely individual experiences—when, in fact, many of those struggles are socially produced.
Pain is biological, but it’s also social: it’s an experience mediated through cultural norms, institutions, and interpersonal dynamics.
Pain is often an isolating experience.
By coming together to resist isolation, we can make this part of pain less painful.
What you’ll get from this group:
A reduction in the isolation that so often accompanies pain
Space to put language to your own experience, often in ways that aren’t available in everyday conversation
A clearer sense that what you’re experiencing is not just personal, but shared and patterned
New ways of understanding where your ideas about pain come from (and how they’ve been shaped over time)
Exposure to how other people are making sense of pain in their own lives, without advice or comparison
A temporary distraction from the monotony of managing your pain day in and day out
