Creative flow is one of the methods I use to distract from pain.

Yes, I know, I also would have punched someone in the stomach had they told me to distract from my pain with meditation or art or anything other than pain killers but then I learned I had a disease that didn’t respond very well to pain killers so, I had to try.

Turns out the brain is REALLY good at distracting itself from pain, so who knew?

So when I hurt badly enough that I can’t “normal” but not so badly that I am utterly flattened I turn to paints and paper to create myself some pain control.

Lately I have been using acrylic paint pens with brush tips. Here are some of my recent creations: