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Cynthia Toussaint

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Memoir, Nonfiction

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Cynthia Toussaint founded the organization For Grace in 2002 to raise awareness about the chronic pain disease Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and five years later expanded the organization's mission to ensure the ethical and equal treatment of all women in pain. She currently serves as spokesperson, and has had CRPS and Fibromyalgia for 30 years. Before becoming ill, she was an accomplished ballerina and worked professionally as a dancer, actor and singer.

Toussaint has been featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, PBS, Discovery Health, The Learning Channel, AARP The Magazine, Newsweek, Woman's Day and The New York Times, among others. She is a consultant for ABC News, FOX News, the National Pain Report and PainPathways, the official ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 76 ratings · 16 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love by Cynthia Toussaint (Goodreads Author), Linden Gross (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Positive Options for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): Self-Help and Treatment by Elena Juris (Goodreads Author), Edward Carden MD (Foreword), Cynthia Toussaint (Goodreads Author) (Preface) 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle for Grace: A Memoir of Pain, Redemption and Impossible Love by Cynthia Toussaint (Goodreads Author), Cynthia Toussaint (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As a woman ravaged by intense pain and the loss of virtually all my life’s goals, I have been transformed by suffering and love. And brought to a higher place.”
― Cynthia Toussaint

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“I lead a life of contradiction. I’ve experienced horrific pain, a non-caring medical system, and total loss of the career I felt I was born for. Yet I feel completely blessed.”
― Cynthia Toussaint

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“It all began with dreams that did not come true.”
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