The Power in Pain

Diana Waldron
3 min readJun 17, 2024

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Photo by Hilde Swets from Pixabay

Pain is a portal. Most of our modern culture is built around anesthetizing our pain without fully processing it.

Coffee. Sugar. Social media. Television. Drugs. Painkillers.

Our entire medical system is literally based around treating the symptoms and not the cause. We don’t dig deeper. We want the quickest way to “end the pain” without understanding the story our pain is begging us to decipher and hear…

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Diana Waldron

Diana Waldron is a writer and a sitarist living in the Hudson Valley.