Goals with room to breathe
Find ways to keep moving toward what matters, at a pace that respects your body.
A compassionate guide for living with chronic pain
Got Pain? Now What?
Navigating Through a Journey of Pain
A fuller life is still possible.
Vita Oyler shares a lived, practical path for finding meaning, connection, and quality of life in spite of pain.
By Vita Oyler, M.S. · Rehabilitation Counselor · 35+ years navigating chronic pain
A guide shaped by lived experience
It's not easy living with pain, but there is always a way to move on. Make it your journey.
Vita Oyler, M.S.
Meet Vita
Experience, expertise, and a life still fully lived.
Vita Oyler is a Rehabilitation Counselor who specializes in chronic pain. After developing RSD—also known as CRPS—more than 35 years ago, she learned firsthand how pain can reshape daily life.
With an M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling, fellowship in AAPM, and continuing PhD studies, Vita has helped people living with chronic pain pursue meaningful work and a better quality of life. Her approach makes room for the hard days while helping people find what still matters.
A book for the life you are living
Small ways forward can become a fuller life.
Connection that sustains
Make space for family, friendship, laughter, and the people who help you feel seen.
Joy in the everyday
Reconnect with hobbies, animals, alternatives, and the moments that make life feel like yours.
Strategies that fit you
Explore practical, personal approaches for living with pain—not around your life, but within it.
Inside the book
A companion for the questions that come after pain arrives.
Part memoir, part practical guide, Got Pain? Now What? offers an honest look at chronic pain and the choices that can help you build a life with purpose, connection, and possibility.
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Understand the journey
See how chronic pain can touch work, relationships, identity, and everyday decisions.
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Find your own tools
Consider the strategies that helped Vita focus on goals, family, hobbies, laughter, animals, and alternatives.
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Keep choosing life
Carry forward a compassionate reminder: pain is real, and so is your capacity for a meaningful life.
Speaking & consulting
Bring a lived and professional perspective to your community.
Vita speaks with healthcare groups, rehabilitation professionals, and community audiences about navigating chronic pain with dignity, practical insight, and hope.
Start a conversationFor
- Healthcare & rehabilitation teams
- Chronic pain support communities
- Caregivers, families & friends
You do not have to figure it out alone
Begin with one hopeful next step.
Discover a guide shaped by lived experience, professional insight, and a belief that your life can still hold joy.
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