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Laura Kiesel
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Laura Kiesel is Boston-area freelance writer whose articles and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Salon, Washington Post, The Fix, Vice, Al-Jazeera, The Atlantic, and many others. She is currently completing a collection of personal essays.
Posts by Laura Kiesel

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Working with a disability

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Chronic pain and childhood trauma

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The cost of chronic pain

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Addiction, the opioid crisis, and family pain

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Women and pain: Disparities in experience and treatment

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Lessons from a chronic pain management program

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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: A mystery solved

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Chronic illness is a part-time job. It shouldn’t be

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Yes, I’ve tried that too: When well-intentioned advice hurts

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