How to Live with Invisible Pain | Samira Rajabi

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  We pathologize things and we narrate things as like, good things or bad things.

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  And pain is a bad thing, but like, by narrating it as bad, we disallow ourselves from, like, just letting it be, just letting it be there.

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  The pain is not forever, just like nothing is forever.

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  And like, maybe it'll get worse, but maybe it'll get better and that maybe that little bit of like, possibility that like, or maybe I'll just get better at letting it be.

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  And that's the thing that happened.

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  I got better at letting it be.

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  And it's like, it just feels like magic.

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  So have you ever felt like you were carrying around an invisible weight, pain, discomfort or struggle that no one else could see?

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  Something that made even the simplest daily tasks feel overwhelming at times?

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  For many of us, the experience of invisible pain, it's all too familiar, yet it often goes unspoken.

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  We put on a brave face and power through hiding our suffering from the world.

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  What if there was another way?

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  A path to make that invisible pain more visible, even if just to yourself or to those closest to you, or a way to navigate it and experience it with more ease, even if no one else knew what you were moving through?

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  My guest today is also a dear friend, Samira Rajabi.

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  She is a PhD and researcher in media studies with a specialty in trauma, digital media and media making.

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  A professor and author of the award winning book all my friends live in my computer, trauma, tactical media and meaning.

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  And shes also a public speaker who helps others find a lot of light in lifes darkest moments.

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  But heres the other part of Samiras story, the one you wont often see.

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  She has been walking a path of chronic pain, debilitating headaches, and an eventual diagnosis of a benign brain tumor thats led to multiple surgeries, hearing loss, and a range of physical pain that exists to this day, all invisible to the unknowing eye.

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  And yet, it's a part of her existence, something she dances with every day, even as she raises a young daughter, teaches her students, speaks, conducts research, and writes.

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