@BattleforGrace

Author of Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love - NOW available

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Joined January 2013
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A must-read for those hit hard by #chronicpain - the memoir @BattleForGrace tinyurl.com/pt4lrnv #hope #RSD #kindle #lupus #fibro #brave

Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love

Battle for Grace is about a seven-year-old girl who sees Funny Girl and has a dream. To act, to dance and to sing. It’s also about how she becomes a woman whose life is virtually destroyed by a...

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Happy Fall, Women In #Pain Nation. Here's the latest video from HQ! WIPN leader Cynthia Toussaint shares it's great to be with fellow #chronicpain warriors, but try to broaden out socially for optimal wellness tinyurl.com/h3k8b3sz #fibromyalgia #healing #friends #migraine

Women In Pain Nation "Thought of the Day" - Widen Your Social Circle So Pain Isn't the Only Only

Women In Pain Nation leader Cynthia Toussaint shares that it's grea...

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Women In #Pain Community, Happy #PainAwarenessMonth! @ForGrace is celebrating by launching a groundbreaking project that looks at the connection between #chronicpain and #dementia along with promoting #brainhealth tinyurl.com/4hzxxxxe #hope #elderabuse
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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Check out @ForGrace founder Cynthia Toussaint's latest & most personal piece on @PainNewsNetwork. Toussaint spotlights the #chronicpain-#dementia connection and the love for a woman who will never be forgotten tinyurl.com/4x6fasrr #Alzheimers #ILoveYouMom #brainhealth

Exploring the Connection Between Chronic Pain and Dementia — Pain News Network

By Cynthia Toussaint Difficulty in finding words – also known as “brain fog” -- started for me 30 years ago after I began taking the medication gabapentin for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. While it...

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Check out @ForGrace's October Story of the Month as we celebrate comebacks. Natalie Rivans' career as a police officer halted when #pain took over. An overactive nervous system was the perp - and she now helps other via #neuroplasticity tinyurl.com/33bk7kv5 #chronicpain

Natalie Rivans - For Grace

My Comeback from Chronic Pain For a long time pain became the background to almost everything I did. I had been a police officer and was used to pushing through things, staying alert and getting on...

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Fresh from a trip to the Great North, #Women In #Pain Nation drops a new video! WIPN leader Cynthia Toussaint, despite the last two years of tough, keeps looking for #rainbows... and there it is! tinyurl.com/2ktan39a #chronicpain #GlacierBay #Alaska #Cruising

Women In Pain Nation "Thought of the Day" - Stay Strong and Keep Looking for Those Rainbows

Women In Pain Nation leader Cynthia Toussaint shares how though the...

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
womensweekly.com.au/health/w…

Millions of women live with chronic pain. So why is it still being dismissed?

Women are more likely to experience chronic pain than men, yet many face delayed diagnoses and inadequate treatment.

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Must see film if you struggle with #chronicpain - "Pain Matters" Great to share with friends & family tinyurl.com/2f7k477r #painmatters #spoonie #opioids #RSD #fibromyalgia #endometriosis #migraines #pain #crps #lupus #womeninpain #hope
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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Acute pain is the body's alarm system, telling us of injury, infection & more. But if you don't shut it down, it can become something worse. Check out @ForGrace's #AcutePain Campaign to make your plan of action tinyurl.com/mvrec2s3 #stopthepain
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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Hello Women In Pain Community! @ForGrace is seeking stories that connect #chronicpain and #dementia as our 2027 Share Your Story theme. If you're a woman in pain with dementia or are concerned u might develop it, we'd love to hear from u tinyurl.com/2fy33ut4 #brainhealth
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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Women In #Pain, check out this groundbreaking article by @HealthyWomen and @ForGrace founder Cynthia Toussaint that explores #childhoodtrauma as a driver for #chronicpain. Yes, the body does indeed keep the score. tinyurl.com/56w46y4w #CRPS #trauma

Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Chronic Pain

The connection between trauma and chronic pain doesn’t mean it’s all in your head. It’s real, and it requires holistic treatment.

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Check out this feature piece by @ForGrace founder Cynthia Toussaint for Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper. Cynthia shares how childhood trauma led to #chronicpain, #familydysfunction almost ended her, and #estrangement is the only choice sometimes tinyurl.com/yxx8243m #Survive

How Childhood Trauma and Family Dysfunction Nearly Took My Life—and How I Survived

In late 2019, a few months before the world would shift on its axis, I found myself shaking my head, tears welling, on a sterile exam table. When I asked my long-trusted doctor how I got the most...

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
#Women In #Pain Community! Check out this phenomenal 2000+ word article about #chronicpain in Canada's National Post, their leading legacy media outlet. @ForGrace championed the piece that features real-life people with real pain tinyurl.com/y6ddm6xu #CRPS #healing #RA #hope

PAIN: Chronic suffering hiding in plain sight

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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
@ForGrace leaders John Garrett & Cynthia Toussaint share their 44+ year #chronicpain journey in the latest "PWLE Voices" Newsletter, focusing on caregiving & how to keep the good vibes flowing tinyurl.com/34f65hct #peoplewithlivedexperience #PWLE

The Legs of the Operation

PWLE Voices · Issue 4 · September 2026 · Pain Awareness Month Spotlight The Legs of the Operation Cynthia spent her life on a stage. John never planned to be a caregiver. Forty-six years later they…

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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
Hello #Women In #Pain Community! It's a big day at @ForGrace! We're launching the most personal and important project in our 25 year history - "Leona's Legacy" - as we aim to connect #chronicpain & #dementia and promote #brainhealth forgrace.org/leonas-legacy/ #Alzheimers #remember
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For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds

Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55

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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 20
A must-read for those who have had a life turned upside down by #chronicpain - the #memoir @BattleForGrace tinyurl.com/y99z42jx #CRPS #RSD #fibromyalgia #migraine #hope

Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love

Battle for Grace is about a seven-year-old girl who sees Funny Girl and has a dream. To act, to dance and to sing. It’s also about how she becomes a woman whose life is virtually destroyed by a...

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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 15
Happy Fall, Women In #Pain Nation. Here's the latest video from HQ! WIPN leader Cynthia Toussaint shares it's great to be with fellow #chronicpain warriors, but try to broaden out socially for optimal wellness tinyurl.com/h3k8b3sz #fibromyalgia #healing #friends #migraine
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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 14
Women In #Pain Community, Happy #PainAwarenessMonth! @ForGrace is celebrating by launching a groundbreaking project that looks at the connection between #chronicpain and #dementia along with promoting #brainhealth tinyurl.com/4hzxxxxe #hope #elderabuse
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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 14
Hello #Women In #Pain Community! It's a big day at @ForGrace! We're launching the most personal and important project in our 25 year history - "Leona's Legacy" - as we aim to connect #chronicpain & #dementia and promote #brainhealth forgrace.org/leonas-legacy/ #Alzheimers #remember
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Cynthia Toussaint retweeted
For Grace: Women In Pain@forgraceOct 14
@ForGrace leaders John Garrett & Cynthia Toussaint share their 44+ year #chronicpain journey in the latest "PWLE Voices" Newsletter, focusing on caregiving & how to keep the good vibes flowing tinyurl.com/34f65hct #peoplewithlivedexperience #PWLE
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