Chronic Pain and Identity

Chronic Pain and Identity

Why disentanglement, and changing our language around pain, are crucial to healing. When you finally receive a diagnosis for your condition it can almost feel like a relief. After months, or years, of pain, of doctors not knowing what is “wrong with you”, because “you...
How Mindset Influences Pain

How Mindset Influences Pain

“My body is betraying me. I can’t trust it anymore”. These are the words spoken by Liuan Huska, author of Hurting Yet Whole, who started experiencing chronic pain symptoms at the young age of 22. For people dealing with chronic pain symptoms these words can sound very...
Signs Your Chronic Pain Is Neuroplastic

Signs Your Chronic Pain Is Neuroplastic

Neuroplastic pain, Mindbody Syndrome, Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), Tension Myoneural Syndrome (also TMS), Perceived Danger Pain (PDP), Distraction Pain, and I am probably missing a few. These are all terms that refer to the same thing, namely pain that originates...
A Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain

A Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain

Revisiting the mind-body connection to curb the chronic pain pandemic. Currently, about 21% of the global population is suffering from chronic pain¹, this means 1 in 5 people. The first time I heard this number I thought it had to be an exaggeration, it cannot be that...