Bodymind (re)learning for wellbeing and ease: a path towards healing and freedom from persistent pain and other symptoms
If you have pain right now, and that pain has persisted for more than three months, you are not alone. Around 1 out of 5 of humans share your experience. And, most importantly: healing and freedom from chronic pain and other symptoms is possible. I know both from clinical and personal experience: after almost 10 years of persistent back pain I am now pain free. You can read more about my recovery story here. I have witnessed my patients recover from a long list of symptoms and diagnoses, including fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, and CRPS.
If you’re experiencing any (or many) of these symptoms or syndromes, you’re in the right place. Keep on reading, there’s hope for recovery.
Many people who experience chronic pain and other symptoms (myself included not too long ago) are surprised to learn that ‘chronic’ does not mean that it will last forever. In fact, let’s start by changing a word: from chronic to persistent.
Modern neuroscience and clinical experience are showing that freedom from persistent pain and other symptoms is possible for most people, through an integrative mind-body approach to address the source at the deepest level. This approach incorporates practices to (re)learn wellbeing and ease, and train your bodymind away from persistent pain, reduce or be fully free from your symptoms, and reclaim your life. It harnesses the power of bioplasticity, the ever changing adaptability of our bodymind, and neuroplasticity. Let’s take a look at how this is possible, and how you can get started.
You can start by exploring the page on bodymind (re)learning for wellbeing and ease, meandering through the blog (I’ve broken down all of the information on that page in this blog) or contacting me to explore how you and I can work together to help you grow in wellbeing and ease, and to heal.
A brief note: everything shared here, as elsewhere on this website, is offered as a possible map or framework, or a guidepost of sorts, for you to explore and make sense of your experience, and perhaps discover new possibilities for healing through a different understanding. Understanding things differently changes the way we experience them. What I offer here is not meant as a universal or absolute truth, as a singular understanding or as the only path. It is my wish that you can create the space and choice to take care of yourself, determine what is useful for you, and make decisions that best meet your needs, including the possibility of exploring something else that best supports you. And if you choose to engage in a mindbody approach, it doesn’t preclude making use of other tools that you find supportive, nourishing or health- and well-being enhancing. Also, because I continue to learn and unlearn, my understanding is in constant shift and evolution - sometimes my website will be somewhat behind in the updating ;)
In the text below and elsewhere on my website, you’ll find multiple links and references throughout the content. My mention of someone's work doesn’t always mean we know each other, that I endorse them unequivocally or that they endorse me. It means that there's a particular idea that I find relevant and I want to give credit where credit is due. (h/t Kelly Diels).