For many individuals dealing with chronic pain, completing any sort of physical activity can be quite burdensome. More often than not, people in chronic pain tend to avoid activity in an attempt to keep pain flare-ups at bay. As time progresses, and individuals in pain fall into a more sedentary lifestyle, they become less able to complete activities they previously enjoyed. Spending the day at the beach, playing volleyball with friends, or enjoying a nice long walk may be

As I stood in line to get my small black coffee this morning, I noticed that the person a few ahead was ordering their beverage. It had a lot of nouns and sounded like something out of a sci-fi movie. I overheard him say he “deserved” the drink because he had taken the dog for a walk in the backyard this morning. The drink had a number of pumps from the flavoured syrup containers, extra whip cream with chocolate sprinkles and some other things I couldn’t identify. Later I goo

As the weather gets warmer and sunnier, days get longer, and folks collectively begin coming out of hibernation mode, we often start our yearly Spring Cleaning endeavour. For many, this ritual allows us to symbolically shrug off the mantle of winter, and to get a fresh start to the new year. As someone who regularly engages in this yearly practice, I’m quite familiar with the cathartic feeling of getting rid of a year’s worth of amassed junk, doing a full deep-clean and purge