Tom Seaman

A plate of sushi and sashimi made with Chilean salmon in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo: Undercurrent News.

Living with chronic pain or other health conditions is, in many ways, an exercise in perpetual, involuntary mindfulness. For those of us navigating long-term conditions—like my own twenty‑five‑year journey with dystonia—this constant awareness is often aimed solely at surviving the next hour or bracing for the unpredictability of the next day. That vigilance becomes its own kind of burden. Within that experience lives a quiet, persistent anger.

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