The Pain Project: A Couple’s Story of Confronting Chronic Pain

Catherine Owen reviews the Pain Project.

Host Nil Koksal interviews Kara Stanley and Simon Paradis about their book The Pain Project.

Reputable information and resources about chronic pain from Pain Canada, Canada’s national action network, and Health Canada.

Personal websites of Pain Project author Kara Stanley.

For the fifth North Shore Reads event, we invite you to a thoughtful online conversation between Kara, Simon, and The Globe and Mail’s Marsha Lederman on what it means when we confront our pain head on.

This is a recording of the event that happened on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.

Personal website of the author of the Pain Project, Simon Paradis

Tom Sandborn reviews the Pain Project.