{"id":2191,"date":"2026-07-08T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:19:22","slug":"pain-is-inevitable-suffering-is-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/pain-is-inevitable-suffering-is-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain is Inevitable: Suffering is Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2194\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innerview.ca\/press1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4433BDE2-8CA8-411C-BECA-5DFE6AB855DF.heic?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all experience pain. There are certain things in life we can\u2019t control, but what we can control is how we choose to approach life and how we handle pain. Instead of ignoring or resisting it, we can learn to deal with the painful moments with more ease and resilience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the things pain has taught me:<\/p>\n<p>Pain is a warning signal designed to protect us. It inform us that something needs our attention and is out of balance.<\/p>\n<p>Pain puts your priorities in order and \u00a0clarifies what matters most.<\/p>\n<p>Pain increases your strengths in ways you didn\u2019t know you had.<\/p>\n<p>Pain brings you more empathy for other people\u2019s struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Pain asks more questions than it provides answers such as \u201cWhat do I need to change?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pain involves sitting with the discomfort, processing it, and finding solutions to restore balance.<\/p>\n<p>Pain teaches you to slow down, stop fighting, and become more aware of the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>Pain is about finding peace and calm in the middle of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Pain is not about being punished, pressured, or perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Pain is about becoming more compassionate, patient, and trusting.<\/p>\n<p>Pain reminds us to be grateful for all we have and for whatever we can do.<\/p>\n<p>Pain is a reminder that you are always being guided and protected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pain is about remembering to come home to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette Giacobbe<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/innerview.ca\">innerview.ca<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all experience pain. There are certain things in life we can\u2019t control, but what we can control is how we choose to approach life and how we handle pain.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerview.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}