The Social Life of Pain: A Free Drop-In Pain Group
A free online group to come together and connect over the shared experience of being in a body that often hurts.
Joining starts with a quick 10-minute chat, so the group stays a safe and good fit for everyone. Grab a time below.
On Zoom Mondays 6-7:15pm pacific
Pain is a relationship. It's a relationship you have with yourself, and we work on it better in company.
This group isn't about fixing your pain or learning techniques to manage it. It's a space to step back and understand your experience of pain in a broader context, alongside other people doing the same.
Too many people living with chronic pain think the struggles they're experiencing are entirely individual. In fact, many of those struggles are socially produced. Pain is biological, but it's also social: an experience shaped by cultural norms, institutions, and the people around us. That's the layer this group works with, and naming it together is part of what makes Mondays feel different.
What you’ll get from this group:
A reduction in the isolation that so often accompanies pain
Space to put language to your own experience, often in ways that aren’t available in everyday conversation
A clearer sense that what you’re experiencing is not just personal, but shared and patterned
New ways of understanding where your ideas about pain come from (and how they’ve been shaped)
Exposure to how other people are making sense of pain in their own lives, without advice or comparison
A temporary distraction from the monotony of managing your pain day in and day out
