The impact of generational trauma on health and wellness will be highlighted at For Grace's 11th Annual Women In Pain Conference on November 17th. Dr. Noshene Ranjbar, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Arizona College of Medicine, will share her work with Native American communities, keying on trauma-informed mental health healing based in mind-body medicine. Dr. Ranjbar will highlight how trauma and its adverse health effects have devastated these communities via multiple generations of social and cultural disenfranchisement.
For Grace founder Cynthia Toussaint's poignant story of resilience is shared in a groundbreaking pain management book published this month by University of Michigan pain psychologist Dr. Afton Hassett. Chronic Pain Reset , which includes a detailed 30-day self-care program, delves deeply into how evidence-based behavioral strategies can help people with chronic pain. Contributing to a chapter on values, virtues and strengths, Toussaint writes tenderly about her father's suicide and how she used his memory as an impetus to overcome what many called impossible. Team For Grace HIGHLY recommends this inspiring, empowering, life-changing read!
Fall rolls out strong as For Grace celebrates 20 years of sponsoring a California resolution that proclaims September as Pain Awareness Month and the 1st as Women In Pain Awareness Day. Authored for the third year-in-a-row by Senator Maria Elena Durazo, SR 48 brings critical awareness of pain as a major public health concern along with the plight of women in pain and their challenge to get early diagnosis and effective pain management to Golden State lawmakers. Thank you, Senator Durazo, and your amazing staff member, Fernando Rameriz. Bravo!!
For Grace's September Story of the Month once again explores trauma as a springboard for chronic pain! Writer Sasanna Yee suffered from a traumatic childhood car accident that left her suffering for a decade with body shame, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Many times she envisioned ending her life until she discovered yoga which "re-aligned her mind-body-spirit." After that, Sasanna finally stopped managing her pain, but instead let her pain lead her to a place of better wellness, including fulfilling a dream of traversing six Asian countries in six months.
