Pain’s Fourteenth Hidden Pearl: Stop! Don’t Medicate Just Because You Can

When suffering through is what produces our greatest growth, the all-pervasive biomedical ideology has made it easy for us to anesthetize, delay or avoid suffering all together. Have you ever medicated to avoid emotional pain? What invaluable lessons are learned when we sit with suffering? Will you choose to strengthen your resilience and cultivate your pearls by suffering through? Why or why not?