For the 20th consecutive year, For Grace is sponsoring a resolution that will proclaim September as Pain Awareness Month and September 1st as Women In Pain Awareness Day in California! Partnering again with Senator Maria Elena Durazo as Author, this bill will bring critical awareness to Sacramento legislators and policy makers about chronic pain as a public health crisis as well as the implicit and explicit bias toward women that often accompanies pain care. A big THANK YOU to staffer Fernando Rameriz for your great passion and support of this ongoing effort. Bravo!
Check out For Grace's 2023 kick-off Story of the Month as we continue to explore the connection between chronic pain and trauma. Kathleen Sutherland experienced a sexual assault at 16 which triggered an eating disorder, causing her to quickly gain 40 lbs. and experience body self-loathing. Kathleen believes this body dissociation was a trauma coping mechanism that seeded her development of fibromyalgia. More recently, a 12-step program re-established Kathleen's healthy relationship with food, and she now recognizes that she was "not broken, and never was."
Team For Grace extends Happy Holiday wishes to women in pain across the globe, a wonderful season we hope will be filled with good cheer, steady joy and minimum pain. While 2022 proved to be a personally and globally challenging year, these are times where resilience, appreciation and generous spirit become the cornerstones of better days ahead. Cheers to all, wherever you may be on this wondrous planet! May the New Year bring you and yours bountiful beginnings...
In 2020, For Grace partnered with leading international CRPS advocacy organizations, along with Grunenthal Pharmaceuticals and NexGen Healthcare Communications, in crafting and distributing a comprehensive survey to glean new understandings about this elusive chronic pain disease. The results from around the world are now in, and we excitedly look to January to share cutting-edge insights about the CRPS experience along with new hope moving forward. Please check back soon!
