For Grace is proud to announce it has joined the World Patients Alliance (WPA), a newly formed nonprofit umbrella organization of patients and patients’ organizations around the globe. The WPA provides the platform to empower and raise the patients’ voice for the provision and access to safe, quality and affordable healthcare. With this initiative, For Grace hopes to bring awareness and champion solutions to the gender disparity women in pain face with healthcare worldwide.

Join host Cynthia Toussaint on her next episode of "The Pain-Cancer Connection" which streams live on five of The Mighty's Facebook pages, including their flagship MightySite page. This Tuesday, June 21st at 2pm PST, Cynthia will interview public health expert, Dr. Susan Nyanzi, about how proper lifestyle choices can enhance cancer and chronic pain treatment and outcomes, with a focus on anti-inflammatory diet and immune-boosting nutrition. Looking forward to your great comments and questions!

As part of For Grace's 2020 focus on the chronic pain-cancer connection, we're spotlighting themed stories for our Share Your Story page. If you're experiencing or have experienced both pain and cancer, please submit your story with a photo so we can feature it as a Story of the Month. Thank you in advance for helping us bring to light this under-appreciated connection - and please send submissions to forgracewip@yahoo.com.

Inspired by For Grace founder Cynthia Toussaint's Twitter Chat feedback, Stanford University's Pain Medicine department has launched a survey that seeks input from chronic pain patients and others about the term "pain catastrophizing" - a phrase that has near universal disdain from the women in pain community. Please take this short survey to have your opinion heard. And please read this 2016 National Pain Report article by Toussaint which puts this issue into perspective.