Posts tagged Chronic Pain
A Chronic Entrepreneur: Taz Dunstan

For Taz Dunstan, being a chronic entrepreneur means being an invincible business woman. After a car accident resulted in severe damage to the cervical discs in her spine, it left her with chronic pain and limited mobility. She’d been an avid adventurer, hiker, mountaineer and ‘thrill seeker’ and she was told that she would never be able to enjoy those activities again.

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A Chronic Entrepreneur: Erin Jackson

Erin Jackson is many things – a woman who loves life, a woman with multiple degrees, an attorney and managing partner at Jackson LLP: Healthcare Lawyers, which she co-founded with her husband, a published author who focused her scholarship on the intersection of women’s health and human rights and the founder of Inspire Santé.Inspire Santé is a not-for-profit that works to destigmatise pelvic pain by opening up the conversation and supporting women experiencing pelvic pain through education and advocacy. Erin herself was faced with severe chronic pelvic pain for almost ten years, consulting multiple doctors until she finally began her road to recovery. Now, she’s helping others in that situation because she knows how lonely and frightening that journey can be, and how valuable and validating it can be to not only receive support but be part of a community of people who share similar stories.

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