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Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain with Francesca GrossmanAired Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM ESTFor over 20 years, author Francesca Grossman, author of NOT Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain, felt stuck in the centrifuge of her own pain. After all that time of living this way, she started to wonder: where were all the other people who lived like I did? Why didn’t I know them? Why didn’t I share my story? She started asking women in her community if they had chronic pain―only to find that I was surrounded by women also battling in silence. The more I spoke to people, the more she found common themes and experience—feeling silenced, experiencing humiliation and shame, struggling in relationships and work—proving that my stories of pain were not unique, and neither were her feelings of loneliness and seclusion.About the Guest:Francesca Grossman is a writer and writing instructor. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Brain, Child Magazine, The Manifest Station, E