Self Care and Chronic Pain

      ~ The greatest act of self care is to believe that you are worthy of care ~

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Therapeutic Journaling

Life is full of upsets. Every day something will happen that disappoints, angers or scares us. What do we do when things upset us? We are masters of avoidance. More often than not we push it down inside, pretend it doesn't matter, lock it away and get on with life. While this works for a […]

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Mindfulness Meditation, Stress and your Health

So we all know that stress is bad for us and that research now shows strong links between chronic physical and emotional stress and poor health. You can read more about this in Chronic Stress and your Health But what can we do about it? The obvious thing is to avoid or get rid of […]

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Placebo and Nocebo Effect

A UK construction worker stepped on a nail. It went right through his boot and came out the other side. The pain was excruciating to the point where he needed morphine just to remove the boot. Once the boot was removed the extent of the damage became clear... the nail had completely missed his foot […]

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Chronic Stress and your Health

Its been proven time and time again that our minds and emotions are able to create changes in our bodies that can result in poor health. But how is this possible? Ironically, it's one of the survival mechanisms designed to keep us safe that is actually doing us harm The Fight or Flight Response, or […]

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Welcome to Chiron!

Chiron uses occupational therapy and mind-body treatments for chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, pain, anxiety and any TMS conditions. I’ll be using this blog to share any useful ideas to help you regain full health, research articles and general information about the treatments and conditions. I’d love to hear your comments and ideas too!   Coming soon […]

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