For Your Pain, Darling

This episode began with a text from someone close to me. He told me he was exhausted from chronic back pain. That he was depressed. That he had zero joy, even though he could see good things all around him. That he had been trying to meditate, trying to manifest positive energy — and nothing was there. I knew exactly what he meant. And I knew that what he needed wasn't more effort. This episode is my response — not just to him, but to every woman I have worked with who is navigating perimenopause, chronic pain, depletion, or the bewildering experience of knowing things should feel okay and feeling nothing at all.