"I strongly recommend daily journal writing to everyone, especially women in pain. I believe it had the power to heal me."
—Cynthia Toussaint
The Fire Within Blog

For Grace Founder and Spokesperson Cynthia Toussaint shares her unique perspectives on the chronic pain experience!

Remembering My Mother: A Light in the Dark

Despite having great misfortune in her long life, Mom lived it fully and with complete love. Indeed, she was my hero. She was my world. Mom was born on a Minnesota farm, and while...

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The Fine Art of “Knowing” Your Body

Three times in my life I knew something big, tragic and seemingly illogical was going to happen to me. All were trauma and health related, though I didn’t know that when my gut spoke to...

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Shingles and My Ten-Year-Old Bottle of Vicodin

A few years ago, a friend who’d been through a rowdy case of shingles tried to spook me. “You of all people, Cynthia, have to get your vaccine. You couldn’t go through this level...

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Selling Us Short with Long COVID

After four years of diligently following CDC guidelines to avoid COVID like the plague, it finally caught up with me. And, like my doctors presumed, I now have Long COVID. That being...

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