Holiday Survival Guide for Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness
If you live with chronic pain or a chronic illness, you know the holidays come with a second calendar running underneath the first, the one your body keeps. Travel, long meals, late nights, and full rooms all add up, and the cost often shows up a day or two later as a flare.
This free guide is here to help you move through the season with more ease. It’s built around the signals your body sends before it reaches its limit, and it includes a fill-in signal map, simple pacing ideas, words to borrow when others don’t see what you’re carrying, and a menu of things to try when pain gets loud.
Print it, fill it in, or keep it on your phone.
Take what fits and leave the rest.
Support beyond the holidays
I’m Heather Curry, LPC-S, a therapist in Round Rock, Texas, offering in-person and virtual sessions. I specialize in chronic pelvic pain and trauma, and I work alongside pelvic floor physical therapists and physicians.
If living in a body that hurts is wearing you down, I’d be glad to hear from you.