Pain, Buffers, and The Truth Your Body Tells

Have you ever had PAIN that just wouldn’t go away? The kind that makes you reach for anything—meds, ice packs, distractions—just to get through the day? In this episode of The Real, I get vulnerable about my own experience with tooth pain, and how it became a deeper reflection on the ways we all live with pain—physical, emotional, and mental.

Pain doesn’t always come as a sudden crisis. Sometimes it’s the quiet, daily discomfort we choose to push through. The stress we carry. The heartbreak we numb. The exhaustion we bury under busyness. We tell ourselves we’re fine, we show up for work and family, but underneath it all—we’re hurting.

And often, instead of facing that pain, we buffer it. We pour another glass of wine. We overwork ourselves. We scroll for hours. We get wrapped up in o ...