Beyond the Drill: Dental Health & Mental Resilience
From childhood challenges to dental health, lessons in trusting my body’s signals came from tattoo artists, doctors & life coaches.
Pain
A Box of Pain
Pain can be addictive. Science will tell you that your brain releases a tiny amount of dopamine each time you feel pain (perhaps to help you weather it).
The Grand Villain And A Concrete Wall
Heartbreak. It’s hard work getting past it but hard work never scared me. It’s lack of hope that terrifies me. Yet, my automatic reaction has been to freeze up into a wall of silence, stoicism, concrete hardness. There is no hope beyond a wall of that nature. I decided to…
Pricks
“You don’t care, you don’t care!”she shouts into his ears. Pain is a drug that unites them.Right now, they’re too broke for anything else. It pricks. They do.
MayShortReads12: Pain
Turena wipes the wood-top desk and arranges the white sheet over it. It’s impractical, she has been told, but that’s what an architect would think. No artist would deny the magic of a white surface, the dichotomy of blank or plain, the lure of bleeding the pristine. Funnily enough, that…