Your 2022 tax-deductible donation will aid For Grace's global efforts to empower women in pain, sensitize the media and public about pain care gender bias and influence policy makers to embrace chronic pain as a public health crisis. It is because of your generosity that we are able to continue our education and awareness programs to improve the lives of women who are challenged by life-altering chronic pain. Please LINK HERE to read our 2022 holiday appeal letter and to give.

Check out For Grace's December Story of the Month as we continue to explore the connection between trauma and chronic pain.  Woman In Pain and author of The Migraine Relief Plan Cookbook Stephanie Weaver began experiencing strange sensations early in life, making her feel  "zoned out" and disconnected from her body. Years later she developed debilitating back pain and sciatica triggered by a roller-skating injury that was never properly addressed. Stephanie now understands that her dissociation was a coping mechanism that helped her survive years of childhood sexual abuse - and wonders if her life-long pain could have been avoided if she'd been "embodied sooner."

We at For Grace hold a special place in our hearts for CRPS awareness, as that was our original mission 20 years ago. Pleased to report an article our founder Cynthia Toussaint wrote about the disease for Pain News Network was recently picked up by the popular news aggregator Apple News. In "The Ever Changing Rules of CRPS", Cynthia recounts the mercurial, agonizing nature of CRPS, and, at the same time,  how she can "love it completely without complete understanding."

Emails are alerting us that For Grace's 2005 Discovery Health episode of "Mystery Diagnosis" is airing again, this time worldwide! Our show (Part One, Part Two) is bringing much-needed awareness of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), told from the perspectives of the patient, caregiver, family member and doctor. Now we need your help! Since the show is being shown in many languages, we need translators to help us answer questions and inquiries from all.  Please contact us if you can volunteer your talents.