2018 Pain Awareness Week
Help raise awareness during Pain Awareness Week (Nov. 4-10) by sharing a photo of your life with pain and hashtag #painaware2018. Continue reading 2018 Pain Awareness Week
Category: Photography
Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2018
The 4th Annual Chronic Pain & Illness Photography Project for women starts April 2, 2018! This is a FREE 14-day therapeutic photography e-course for women who live with chronic pain or illness. The project takes place in a closed Facebook group. There will be ten photo prompts, related to chronic pain/illness, over 14 days. Participate as much or as little as you would like. No … Continue reading Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2018
Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2017
The 3rd Annual Chronic Pain & Illness Photography Project starts March 1, 2017! This is a FREE 14-day therapeutic photography e-course for women who live with chronic pain or illness. The project takes place in a closed Facebook group. Each day there will be a photo prompt related to chronic pain/illness. Participate as much or as little as you would like. No experience necessary. Just … Continue reading Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2017
Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2016
The 2nd Annual Chronic Pain & Illness Photography Project starts April 1, 2016! This is a FREE 14-day therapeutic photography e-course for people who live with chronic pain or illness. The project takes place in a closed Facebook group. Each day there will be a photo prompt related to chronic pain/illness. Participate as much or as little as you would like. No experience necessary. Just … Continue reading Chronic Pain & Illness Online Photo Project 2016
Share a clothesPAIN selfie for Pain Awareness Week
To bring awareness to Pain Awareness Week (November 1-7, 2015) I am promoting Pain BC’s ClothesPAIN Experiment and anyone who submits a ClothesPAIN selfie to Chronic Pain Life will be entered into a random draw for an item, of the winner’s choice, from my Spoonie Store (a couple of new items will be in the store this week!). INSTRUCTIONS for the ClothesPAIN experiment: Take a clothespin and pin it … Continue reading Share a clothesPAIN selfie for Pain Awareness Week
Invisible Fight Photo Gallery
I have received some really powerful photos from people showing their #invisiblefight with illness and/or pain. Check out the gallery of images so far! You still have time to submit a photo in order to be entered in a draw for a pair of Spoonie Earrings in honor of Invisible Illness Awareness Week. *Read submission details here. Continue reading Invisible Fight Photo Gallery
What is your Invisible Fight? Share a photo and win a pair of Spoonie Earrings!
The #myinvisiblefight Photo Campaign has been launched by Invisible Illness Awareness Week and since Chronic Pain Life is all about promoting the therapeutic value of photography, for individuals living with pain/illness, we have been asked to help promote the campaign! So we are going to showcase a photo gallery on our website of your #myinvisiblefight photos. Submit your photo to be included in our online photo … Continue reading What is your Invisible Fight? Share a photo and win a pair of Spoonie Earrings!
Join the 21-Day Chronic Pain/Illness Photo Project
I am hosting a 21-Day Chronic Pain/Illness Photo Project in a closed Facebook group starting Monday, April 27, 2015. Each day there will be a photo prompt related to chronic pain/illness. Participate as much or as little as you would like. No experience necessary. Just use your phone-camera, snap away and share in the group. If you are interested in joining the project click on … Continue reading Join the 21-Day Chronic Pain/Illness Photo Project
Read my guest blog post: Chronic Pain in Focus – Gaining Further Insight from Your Photos
Read about Chronic Pain in Focus, my new community photography project and about my experience in the One Project’s online photography course, “Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Photographic Storytelling.” Head over to The One Project to read my post. Continue reading Read my guest blog post: Chronic Pain in Focus – Gaining Further Insight from Your Photos
How drawing, music and photography have helped me, a non-artist, deal with chronic pain
Six years ago if you had told me that drawing or music could assist me in dealing with my pain I would have said, “no way, I am not an artist and I need medical treatment not art or music”. Interestingly as the years passed and my pain and disability increased, I opened up to the idea of utilizing the Arts to help me deal with the … Continue reading How drawing, music and photography have helped me, a non-artist, deal with chronic pain
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