Uncovering Your Thoughts and Beliefs

Simple tasks like walking your dog or carrying groceries from the car to your kitchen shouldn’t be exhausting and painful challenges.

The reason your chronic pain symptoms continue to prevent you from living your life with ease, is because what you’ve been taught about how you experience pain is completely backwards. 

It is a common misconception that pain begins with physical trauma, tissue damage, overuse, or simple aging. 

Pain is a typical response to these experiences in your body, but pain does not begin at the location of injury or “damage” in your body.

So, you will not find the lasting solution to your chronic pain symptoms (pain that lasts 6 months or longer) through surgery, physical therapy, or medication alone.

To eliminate your symptoms for good you have to understand the true source of your pain: your brain.

This is why I teach all of my students the tools they need to understand how their emotional experiences and beliefs (conscious and subconscious) cause very real physical experiences in their bodies. 

When you become aware of how your brain maintains pain in your body, you can reprogram your subconscious mind to resolve your symptoms. Then, you will be able to enjoy a leisurely evening walk in the park, and relish the freedom of movement and the peacefulness of nature–something that felt impossible despite all the surgeries, therapies, and medications you had earnestly tried before.

The first phase of building self-awareness around chronic pain symptoms, "Uncovering Thoughts & Beliefs," invites you to explore the underlying narratives shaping your experience.

Here are two questions to consider:

1. What do  you believe, assume, and expect about your pain/symptoms, your diagnosis, your body, and your overall health?
2. What judgments and criticisms do you hold about your personality, your body, your health, and your functional capacity?

This introspective practice helps illuminate the mental patterns that may influence your perception of pain, paving the way for deeper healing and understanding.