Pain offers the difficult blessing of causing one’s world to slow to a centered simplicity, as in, “Let’s see if I can manage to lie down without crying.”

Four principles to remember when facing the very real challenge of pain.

The real suffering of life—the unavoidable agonies—are not problems to be solved but experiences to be faced and felt.

No one wants to deal with the reality of loss and limitation but, ironically, limitations are what free us to become our fullest selves.