Tag: mind-body healing
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This Is How Emotional Invalidation Can Lead to Chronic Pain — And How To Heal
When our emotional wounds aren’t acknowledged and tended to with care so that they can heal, our nervous system produces armor to protect us from further harm. Armor can look like… The armor is designed to protect us from harm. And in the short term, it can do just that. But armor doesn’t heal our…
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You Don’t Have to Quit Your Passion to Heal From Chronic Pain
Symptom flare-ups often happen during periods of big expansion in your life: Stepping into a new leadership role, becoming a parent, gaining recognition for your art, starting a business, falling in love. But it’s not the expansion that causes the symptoms. It’s the tension that happens when fear rushes in to constrict the expansion. Because…
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Beliefs That Block Recovery From Chronic Pain
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist One of the most common blocks to chronic pain recovery is the culturally reinforced habit of invalidating our own emotional wounds. Pain is a danger signal that’s created by the nervous system when it feels unsafe. Sometimes the danger is a physical wound, like a broken arm. But…
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The 4 Stages of Emotional Release
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist If you’ve been on the path of mind-body healing for a while, you’ve undoubtedly heard over and over again that it’s important to process and release your emotions. But how? Emotions are so taboo in patriarchal culture that most of us don’t learn anything about emotional hygiene growing…
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An Honest Account of My Relationship With Painkillers
Diary of a chronic pain recovery therapist Disclaimer: My story about painkillers is not a prescription. It’s simply an honest account of my story. What I hope to model is not a step-by-step how-to, because the steps that I’ve chosen may not necessarily be the steps that you choose. Instead, I hope to model self-trust.…
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How To Choose the Right Path for Chronic Pain Recovery
This is for those who worry about whether or not they’re pursuing the “right” treatment plan for chronic pain. The truth is, there is no single method or treatment that has worked for every single person who’s tried it. That’s the truth. So what path would you follow if you KNEW that the outcome was…
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Should You Stick with Your Regimen or Switch Gears?
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist Here’s a scenario that comes up a lot on the path of chronic pain recovery: You hear that a particular technique will help you heal your symptoms. Maybe it’s expressive writing (one of my favorites to recommend), or meditation, or yoga, or somatic tracking, or something else… And…
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Forgiveness Isn’t the Only Way to Heal
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist There’s a ton of talk in wellness communities about the healing powers of forgiveness, including from chronic pain recovery specialists. And I can understand why. Oxford Languages’ definition of forgiveness begins like this: “[To] stop feeling angry or resentful…” Forgiveness is one route — and only one of many routes —…
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Is Chronic Pain Holding You Back From Pursuing Your Passion?
Tips from a chronic pain recovery therapist Have you ever experienced something like this? You get a great idea! You realize that you’ve got an amazing book inside your brain just bursting to come out… Or you have an innovative new business that you can’t wait to launch… Or maybe you decide to throw a…
From Chronic Pain to Passion 