chronic pain

Take Your Dance Meds! Featuring Seattle Womxn’s Original Music.

"Take Your Dance Meds!" will be a live virtual dance class for healing on the mind-body-spirit levels. Date and time TBA - check back for details - and it will be a livestream on Facebook.com/IraqisInPajamas. The class is open to and appropriate for people of all levels of ability and disability, including you, even if [...]

By |2020-07-06T20:54:24+00:00June 22nd, 2020|Get Published, Living with Hypersensitivity|0 Comments

In Some Ways, for Someone with Chronic Health Issues, Lockdown Has Made Life a Bit Easier

In some ways, I have barely noticed that the world is under lockdown. In other ways, my life has gotten easier. That’s because I have been living with and healing from chronic health issues for the past two decades. Among other considerations, I have physical and auditory hypersensitivity that make gatherings dicey and crowds [...]

By |2020-04-20T01:25:10+00:00April 14th, 2020|Living with Hypersensitivity|0 Comments

Smaller and Smaller

My world becomes Smaller and smaller As one person after another Proves themselves unsafe Dangerous Arrogant Obtuse And as I Suffer the consequences Of their actions And inactions I don’t know If I’ll make it through This time ©2017 by Loolwa Khazzoom. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be copied without author’s [...]

By |2017-08-20T00:27:49+00:00August 20th, 2017|Songs|0 Comments

Avalanche

You injure me In my own home After I lovingly Prepare a meal And experience For you And then Instead of apologizing You go on the attack Telling me that I am So sensitive That I am cursed That I have Bad luck bad karma Projections of your Belief systems Adding insult to injury Compounding [...]

By |2017-08-20T00:24:56+00:00August 20th, 2017|Songs|0 Comments