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Most chronic pain conditions are a learnt response meaning that your mind and body have learned to react to certain triggers or external stimuli.
These triggers can be anything ranging from physical, e.g. sitting for an extended period of time at work, to psycho-emotional, e.g. having a difficult conversation with a friend.
As your body learned these chronic patterns, often completely unconsciously, they became your normality and led to chronic pain. You hold the power to unlearn these patterns and step out of chronic pain.
Now, I understand this can sound wishy-washy and unscientific and that is why a key part of Path Out Of Pain is education which is where our work together will begin and be grounded upon.
I invite those who are are ready to change their relationship with chronic pain to explore my in-depth program: Freedom from Chronic Pain
This in-depth program is for people who are sick of being in constant pain and want to make a real change. If you are done with:
Then you are in the right place!
The aim of the Freedom From Pain program is to give you the education, safe space, and tools to live your life without chronic pain. It follows a method that worked wonders for myself and many others and even has an advantage: you will have a chronic pain expert in your corner (me!).
Here are a few highlights of the program:
If I can recover from years of pain, then so can YOU and the details below give a broad outline of your potential journey… please step right in!
Step 1: Know You Are OK
In this first step, we will take a close look at the cause of your pain. Maybe you have pain when you bend to tie your shoe laces but no pain during an hour-long yoga session. Or, you have been enjoying a walk, start to worry about having back pain, and before you know it start to panic about making it back home. In this step, we’ll introduce ways of soothing your fears by looking for situations that indicate that some of your pain may be fear-driven vs. physical. We do this now so that you gain confidence in your abilities and capacity to recover.
Step 2: Explore Your Emotions
We will take a look at past and present situations that cause you stress and increase your pain and explore what is happening in a safe, non-judgemental way. By introducing personalized techniques including mindful breathing, visualization and journaling you’ll discover how to release some of your tension and, by taking care of yourself, reduce your pain. Imagine the next time you are in pain, instead of focussing on your body, you take a quiet moment to journal. The result? As you learn that your emotions are safe and how they relate to your pain, you’ll be able to truly take care of yourself, pain will be less of a distraction, and you will see a path to recovery.
Step 3: Get Active and Relax
We will gently reintroduce physical exercise back into your life. Through specific coaching tools you will be guided to do exercise that fits with your present abilities and you WANT to do. Imagine, you can finally go for that swim without fear of hurting yourself further.
We’ll also introduce more relaxation techniques to soothe your symptoms. Imagine, when you feel your pain and fear rising as you go to the office, you can put on your favorite music, listen to the melody and breathe calmly, soothing your nervous system back into relaxation. Your shift towards long-term recovery is now in place.
Step 4: Cultivate Acceptance
In this step, we’ll introduce ways to accept the pain you are experiencing now and that the pain is due to a fear-driven, psychological process that is no real danger to you. Maybe you are worried that if you accept your pain, you’ll be admitting your imperfections or you won’t be able to take care of your loved ones. I get it! That is why we’ll introduce tools to help you accept the present moment. Acceptance is the heart of recovery. As your perspective shifts you’ll realize over time that you can recover from chronic pain.
Step 5: Feel Safe
In this step, we will introduce self-compassion. Maybe you find yourself in pain and thinking,”I’m the unluckiest person in the world. How can this be happening to me?” Now, because of our work together you will know you can do something about your pain and, instead of feeling disheartened, you can feel empowered. As we explore the self-compassion practices that will work best for you, you will increasingly give yourself the grace and self-love needed to accept who you are with greater ease. You will have developed your own solutions and know you can live freely and happily without pain medication.
