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Acknowledging pain and loss can create beauty in life
Facing anxieties and accepting impermanence helps in turning pain into something beautiful
Honoring and loving through pain brings out resilience and preciousness

Hilary Mantel experienced years of pain before being diagnosed with endometriosis, impacting her fertility.
Exercise was thought to be helpful for menstrual pain, but Mantel's condition led her to feel like she was leaving normal life behind.
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Improving sleep hygiene can help with insomnia more effectively than relying on medications. This includes optimizing environmental, behavioral, and psychological factors for better sleep.
Full-body MRIs as a health screening tool may not have sufficient evidence backing their utility.
Prescription medications for sleep should be used cautiously due to risks of addiction and side effects. It's important to balance risks and rewards in using such medications.

Change is often accompanied by pain, and that's okay. Accepting the pain is crucial for growth.
To make a change, it's important to follow your fear, as it can show you where you need to grow.
Embodying change means accepting the discomfort and fear, knowing they do not define you.

Don't prioritize only being happy or 'chill', embrace pain and discomfort for a more meaningful life.
Seeking out pain can lead to experiencing unimagined joys like connection and creation.
Unique pains shape our personality and provide value, while shared pains foster understanding and community.

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The Pepto Bismol jingle can be catchy and reminds us of the similarities between physical and emotional discomforts.
There are charts illustrating the crossover between digestive and emotional pain.
The post closes with well-wishes for smooth digestive tracks and emotional sine waves.

Sometimes, we don't have as much control over our lives as we think we do, and that realization can be scary.
Mental pain is often overlooked and not given the urgent attention it deserves by society and healthcare systems.
The belief that pain is character-building or insignificant unless it has noticeable effects is a harmful societal lie; we must prioritize abolishing mental agony.

Happiness is common and similar, but pain is unique to each individual.
Experiencing someone else's pain is different and often not fully understood.
Pain is challenging to express in words and lacks a clear connection to the external world.