chronic pain
Self Care for Chronic Pain and TMS
Self Care for Chronic Pain & TMS ~ for your Body, Mind and Spirit ~ Self Care... it's just drinking enough water and taking a bubble bath isn't it?? Kind of.... but there's SO much more to it than that! This week has been Self Care week with a focus on the mind body connection.... […]
Continue readingAre your words stopping you from healing?
WORDS can be SO powerful. And yet we throw them around every day without too much thought. Thoughts, conversations, texts... there's a constant dialogue going on in and around us that can be like little grenades going off all over the place! And, guess what? Grenades = Fear = Pain Is it time to decommission […]
Continue readingWhat is Chronic Pain?
In order to recover from chronic pain, there are a few things that we need... The first thing is to UNDERSTAND what it is that we're dealing with! So what exactly IS chronic pain?
Continue readingRecover from Pain
So today I'm officially a Youtuber 😮 I've launched a channel dedicated to spreading the word about chronic pain which, whilst I know it's a good thing, is very much out of my comfort zone 😬 ...and very much NOT what my youngest would classify as cool! (sorry kids, but a Mum's gotta do what […]
Continue readingSelf Care and Chronic Pain
~ The greatest act of self care is to believe that you are worthy of care ~
Continue readingThe Root Cause of Chronic Pain
All pain has a purpose. Yes, it makes us irritable and scared and sometimes downright miserable. But what's it's real purpose? It's higher purpose? Acute Pain This serves to tell us about damage or potential damage to our bodies. It's a call to action. So if we cut ourselves or break a bone we feel […]
Continue readingDo you feel Good Enough? Know your Self Worth
How often do you stop yourself from doing things because you think you’re not good enough? That you won’t do it well enough? That you’re not clever enough? Strong enough? Interesting enough? Thin enough? Funny enough? Pretty enough? Brave enough? That there’s no point trying because it won’t be as good as someone else’s effort, […]
Continue readingTherapeutic 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 […]
Continue readingMindfulness 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 […]
Continue readingChronic Pain – what do we really know?
This blog post is dedicated to Dr John Sarno 23/06/1923 - 22/06/2017 - the pioneer of mind-body medicine. I, along with my fellow mind-body workers, will continue to strive to realise his vision of the acceptance of mind-body theories by mainstream medicine.
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