Helpful Downloads

Tips on Explaining Your Chronic Pain/Illness to Loved Ones


Spoon Theory
Telling & Owning Your Story: Compose an "Elevator Pitch" Version of Your Story (pdf)

Pacing and Resting. We all Hate it, But it’s Important!

Pacing is hard, but necessary! Here are some downloads that can help with pacing your activities so you can help avoid crashing.


6 Mindfulness Exercises to Help With Hard Days and to Calm the Nervous System
Activity Pacing with Chronic Pain
Pacing the Day

Meet Scooby, he’s got pacing down perfectly! He sleeps all day so he can run around with the zoomies at night and throw fits on the couch at night! Scooby (aka Chunk) the marvelous pacer!

Other Useful Tools

Struggling with Sleep? Sleep Diary
Let's Do Some Deep Breathing
Positive and Negative Coping Skills