The full power of expressive therapy was on display as For Grace leaders Cynthia Toussaint and John Garrett read excerpts from their book, Battle for Grace, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City's first annual Literary Jam. Bringing in local writers to speak about their works, Cynthia and John shared how their chronic pain journey brought them from the pits of despair to peaks of love and compassion. Cynthia's excited to be writing Part Two of her forthcoming memoir, Scapegoat, which will spotlight the connection between childhood trauma and chronic illness as well as family estrangement and elder abuse. Check back for details!

Team For Grace is active in promoting therapies that produce better days ahead for women with chronic pain, especially those impacted by Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.This includes new medications that are winding their way through clinical trials. Ambros Therapeutics will be presenting updates about their Stage III medication, AMBTX-01 (Neridronate), at their April Investigators Meeting in San Diego and they've asked For Grace to provide consumer information about CRPS. We're happy to oblige and send good wishes for a successful event.

For Grace has hit the double dozen anniversary, celebrating 24 years of staying strong and reaching high for our women in pain community. After countless media pieces, legislative successes, public speaking engagements, think tanks, educational conferences and more, our mission has remained clear, year in and year out - to better the lives of women in pain, forward awareness of gender bias in pain care and impress upon policy and decision makers that chronic pain is a public health crisis. We continue to do the work with passion and persistence in our hearts and we thank the angels who have and continue to guide and assist us along the way. Here's to the Dream of Never Again, to the day when lives upended by pain are no more...    

Check out For Grace's April Story of the Month as we continue our 2026 Comeback theme. Deana Kiser was having a fine life, full of good friends and a satisfying career in Human Resources. She was fit and happy. Then a simple slip on an elliptical machine sparked a many year nightmare of intense pain running down both legs. Depressed and deflated, Deana put on weight and stayed on the couch. Then the seeker in her rekindled and she discovered she had CRPS. Still in pain, but again healthy and socially engaged, Deana fights for better days ahead.