Living With Everyday Pain: Why So Many Women Just Put Up With It
- sunshinehealingfab
- Jan 26
- 2 min read
“My body hurts.”
Not dramatically.Not urgently.Just… as a fact.
Wrists ache when you pick things up. Your neck feels permanently tight. Your shoulders sit somewhere near your ears. Your back complains when you get out of bed, or when you’ve been on your feet all day, or when you finally sit down.
And instead of asking why, we tend to shrug and carry on.
Because life doesn’t pause. And neither do we.
Women move through a lot of roles in a lifetime. Sister. Daughter. Mum. Carer. Worker. Organiser. Cleaner. Emotional glue.
Our bodies move with us through every stage, lifting, holding, bending, typing, carrying, rushing, and bracing. It all adds up. And wear and tear doesn’t arrive with a loud bang. It creeps in quietly.
So pain becomes… normal.
We joke about it. We work around it. We tell ourselves it’s “just one of those things”.
And to be clear, there’s nothing weak or dramatic about feeling this way. It makes complete sense. When you’re busy, responsible, and used to getting on with things, your body often comes last.
But here’s the bit that often gets missed:
Living with everyday pain doesn’t mean your body is broken. It usually means it’s been working hard for a long time.
Pain is often the body’s way of asking for a bit of attention, understanding, or support, not a complete overhaul, not a drastic fix, just… a pause and a listen.
And that support doesn’t have to be intense, intimidating, or fitness-led. Sometimes it’s about understanding why something hurts, learning a small thing that helps, or realising you’re not the only one feeling this way.
If you’ve been quietly thinking “my body hurts” and brushing it off because life feels too full to deal with it, you’re not alone. And you’re not imagining it.
I’m working on something for February that creates space for these conversations, in a very real, practical, no-pressure way.
More on that soon.
Dawn xx
Sunshine Holistic Therapy
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