Speaking about pain—with Kate Nicholson

For this week's episode, Rebecca sat down with Kate Nicholson , a dear friend and colleague and a policy advocate who's been leading the charge when it comes to fighting on behalf of people who live with chronic pain. Today she serves as the founder and executive director of the National Pain Advocacy Center. They talk about what it's like to live with chronic pain; Kate's path to founding NPAC; the double-edged sword of crackdowns on access to opioids in recent years; how the COVID pandemic has expanded the chronic pain community; why Kate's work has focused so heavily on storytelling; how spiritual care is core to her self-care; why it's time to update the archetype of lawyer in the midst of a global paradigm shift; and lots more. Links from this episode: Follow Kate on Twitter @speakingabtpain; follow NPAC at @national_pain; learn more about NPAC's work ; and

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Speaking about pain—with Kate Nicholson is an episode from OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas by The Century Foundation.

This episode is 01:08:17 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2023.

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