Happiness despite pain

For some time now, one of our oldest and most loyal followers has been asking me to write an article about how to enjoy happiness despite pain. Today, I'm happy to do so...

Just by way of explanation...some of you may not be aware that before discovering happiness and positive psychology I spent all of my early career working as a clinical psychologist most of which was specialising in (including completing my PhD thesis in) psychological aspects of chronic pain. So this is very much a topic of interest to me. With that in mind, I realise that some of you may not have experiences of chronic pain although I still encourage you to keep reading because pain is incredibly prevalent and…