About Me — Carly Barrett

I talk about chronic pain and copywriting — updated April/21

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Bio

Hello and welcome to my Medium profile! I’m Carly Barrett — copywriter, dog mum, tea drinker, and chronic evolver based in Ontario, Canada.

I Write About Chronic Pain

In my early twenties, I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. I started writing — both on and off Medium — to help find the light in a dark diagnosis and make friends along the way.

Today I’m 29 and I’m happy to say that I’ve healed my chronic pain. Now I’m even more driven to write as a means of connecting with people in their dark moments. I know how isolating having an invisible illness can be, and it’s hard to understand unless you’ve been in the same position.

I want to create pieces that make people feel connected and give them actionable tips to heal their pain.

I believe that, with chronic illness, too often people create communities around commiseration and bonding over a common experience. While I understand why this happens, I think this prohibits actual healing — the pain becomes a sort of prerequisite to being accepted in the community. If you heal, you no longer have shared experience over which to bond. I want to change this stigma by focusing on…