Living with chronic health conditions can be incredibly challenging. The day-to-day grind of managing countless symptoms and unendurable amounts of pain and discomfort is exhausting. This constant barrage of inputs and afflictions would push anyone to their breaking point; yet for us this endless torture is a daily reality we must learn how to navigate, like sailors mastering the tides. If all of humanity were characters in a video game, those with chronic illness and pain would be stuck on “hard mode,” while the healthier and more able-bodied are playing on “easy” – and they don’t even know it. The symptoms and pain would be more than enough, but our suffering is exacerbated by the heavy weight of grief. We have so much to grieve over, so much that we have lost: Lost abilities, hobbies, activities, and careers, derailed plans, broken relationships and connections with society, our sense of independence and autonomy, even our sense of feeling confident as a person and/or sexually attra...