95: The Parable of the Pain Scale | How Bearing Witness to Our Children’s Suffering Calibrates Our Pain Scales to an Entirely Different Level w/ Libby Holley
We are often asked to rate our pain on a scale of 1-10 for medical professionals. Sometimes for ourselves, other times for our children. And it is often so hard to know what number to give our pain.
In this episode, mom Libby Holley shares how this pain scale can also be used to rate our emotional pain, and the ways it calibrates according to our life experiences. So many of us experience pain on a level we’ve never felt before as we become medical parents. Suddenly, what feels like an 8 for our friend may seem completely trivial—a 2 at best on our own personal pain scale. It can be hard to…
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