Ep109: How Chronic Pain Can Affect Your Rope Bondage, and What To Do About It (Listener Question)

In this vulnerable episode, Fox and Mya discuss the challenge of chronic pain in rope, inspired by a listener - a rope bottom with fibromyalgia. Both Mya and Fox have some chronic health issues which include the symptom of chronic pain, and they share some of their own challenges as a rope top and rope bottom in this context, as well as some ideas for handling this. In the episode hear them discuss: * The challenge of trying to understand where pain is coming from when in rope * Spoon Theory and how it relates to rope * How chronic pain might impact you as a rope top or rope bottom * How chronic pain impacts your body image * How the dichotomy of ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ pain might not be helpful, and a better question to ask * Practical things to help you do rope when you are handling chronic pain * How the constraints of chronic pain can support creativity * Scene negotiation when you have chronic pain * And a lot more!