In my journey of recovering from chronic headaches, learning to turn towards my symptoms with curiosity was a critical turning point. As I spent time being curious with my body, I discovered that I was in a constant state of tension and bracing. This lead the way to unwinding the fear that was the true cause of my pain.

I was working with a client with chronic hip pain recently and she asked a great question "how can we tell the difference between real pain and made-up pain". Check out this video to hear my thoughts.

After a year of constant headaches and many "alternative" treatments I decided to see what western medicine could offer. After several medications from my well-meaning doctor didn't help she said, "some people just have daily headaches that don't go away". Translation - "you might just have to live with this".

This is week 3 of my pain reprocessing therapy training. My key insight from the training this week is how your overall sense of safety in life can influence your experience of pain. For some people, finding ways to feel safer in their life and in their body is the most important thing they can do to alleviate their pain.

In this video I talk about the key insight that I learned in my first week of pain reprocessing therapy training. Our beliefs about pain influence how much pain we experience. By learning that pain is not dangerous you can start to break free from chronic pain.

Over 50 million adults in the U.S. live in chronic pain. It's the leading cause of disability and the financial burden of chronic pain is greater than cancer, heart disease and diabetes combined. As staggering as these statistics are, the true heartbreak around chronic pain lays in the day to day impacts on real people's lives.