‘I could barely think because it was so bad’: why Darcey Steinke wrote a book about pain

2026-03-13 - 16:23

Darcey Steinke wanted to write a book that wasn’t just about trying to get over pain. Her memoir, This Is the Door, explores how chronic pain changes us Chronic pain has a way of upending a life. In her memoir This Is the Door, writer Darcey Steinke writes that “pain, like failure, breaks into our everyday lives and upsets who we thought we were and what we thought we could do”. Continue reading...