Welcome to the January Pain-Blog Carnival, a selection of great writing related to pain from this past month.  I wish you the best at the start of this new year!

A new blog to share…

Mary Byrne Eigel hosts a website with her thoughts about chronic pain.  This post looks at negotiating with our bodies – what is the price of activity?

Fighting Fatigue offers some tips on traveling when you have chronic pain.

Spine Health explores 9 steps to better back health – good tips to incorporate into your life.

Working with Chronic Illness invites you to set some goals for this year.

The Daily Headache writes about the courage it takes to ask for help.

A Chronic Dose has a very thoughtful article about the decision to raise children when you have a chronic illness.

Somebody Heal Me shares research about light sensitivity in those who have migraines.

The Let’s Talk Pain Show has some new episodes, including ones about the psychological aspects of pain, and communicating about your pain.

Health Skills posts about the importance of breathing.

Andrea’s Buzzing About shares some of her best finds to help with tasks that are hard because of pain.

I hope you enjoy the selections.  Thanks to R Batina for the photo on Flickr.  Next month’s carnival will be on Wednesday, February 24.  Grand Rounds, a medical blog carnival, is published this week at Emergiblog, with great medically-oriented I Can Haz Cheezburger pictures – luv dem!