Tag: chronic pain recovery
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What’s the Connection Between Chronic Pain and Creativity?
If you struggle with chronic pain or other stress symptoms, your early life may have looked like this… When you asserted your power — your innate, assertive life force — you got punished, laughed at or shamed. And as a result, your own life force became associated with social rejection. And as a result of that, your life…
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Are You Addicted to Worrying?
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist People like you and me who are prone to developing chronic pain and other chronic symptoms tend to have certain things in common. One of them is that our minds have developed a habit of chronic worrying. If you recognize yourself in this description, you’re not alone. Many…
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The Secret to Chronic Pain Recovery
I wanna let you in on a secret. My chronic pain clients who see the greatest symptom reduction are not necessarily the ones who’ve read all the neuroscience research on chronic pain. Or the ones who’ve tried all the latest therapy modalities. They’re not even necessarily the ones who practice daily journaling — and I’m saying that…
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Creativity and Chronic Pain
This photo of me was taken in 2014 and it pretty much sums up how I felt about my life as a video editor working in reality TV: frustrated, creatively and otherwise. 😅 I’ve worked in creative fields for most of my life (architecture, journalism and then TV) but funny enough, it wasn’t until I…
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This Is Hard To Talk About
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist Content note: This post addresses the topic of childhood sexual trauma. It does not go into detail; rather, the focus is on the healing challenges that we face when we have experiences that are hard to talk about — as well as how to overcome those challenges. Stress…
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Do Your Relationships Need To Change in Order for You To Heal?
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist A common trigger of inner tension, distress and chronic pain is this dilemma: 👉 Do I banish a loved one who has hurt me, so that they can’t keep hurting me… but then suffer the loss of the relationship? 👉 Or do I keep the relationship with my…
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Pssst… Did You Know That Secrets Can Lead to Symptoms?
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist Did you know that keeping secrets is hard on your mind and your body? Holding in secrets is meant to protect us from the repercussions of telling. Unfortunately, holding it in takes a toll on your body. The desire to assert your truth is pushing your body’s…
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The Politics of Emotion
Notes from a chronic pain recovery therapist I’m going to say something controversial. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. Not controversial, you say? Consider this: Have you noticed that publications about mental health are obsessed with showing us scientific proof of physical changes in the brain in order to validate the felt experience of emotional trauma? In my…
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Chronic Pain Is Not Your Fault. Read That Again.
Chronic pain is no fun, needless to say. But you know what makes it even worse? The self-blame that we so often heap on ourselves when we’re experiencing symptoms. So I want to take a moment to remind you of this simple truth: Symptoms are not the result of a moral, spiritual or personal failing.…
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The Real Reason It’s Taking So Long To Heal From Chronic Symptoms
(Spoiler: There’s nothing wrong with your healing process!) Most of the time, when people turn to mind-body healing for chronic pain and other symptoms, they arrive there as a last resort after having already tried everything that Western medicine has to offer. When they turn to mind-body healing, they usually start with things like the…
From Chronic Pain to Passion 