Learning to Float

by | Jun 26, 2026 | ACT Therapy

Salut! It’s Flo again. This one is about ACT — a way of working with pain — and it starts, the way these things do for me, in the water. I was not a child who took to swimming. I remember the lesson where I was supposed to learn to float: the instructor standing...

Go Looking for the Black Swan

by | Jun 22, 2026 | Chronic Pain, Reflections

Salut! It’s Flo again. This one is about Karl Popper, and the small, strange way he changed how I try to know things — including what I think I know about pain. My husband is the one who handed me Karl Popper. I don’t think he knew, when he did it, that he...

Make the Climb Without the Rope

by | Jun 15, 2026 | Chronic Pain, Reflections

Salut! I’m Flo, a new therapist drawn to working with people in chronic pain. I wasn’t sure what to write about for my very first post — and then it came to me, after rewatching the film this post is about. I should begin by telling you that I’ve...