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Developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Author, The Way Out
Founder, Pain Psychology Center

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Health and wellness are so important, and for any of you book club members that may struggle with chronic pain, @oprahdaily has a list of books that can help you understand and navigate your situation better. Swipe to see the list, and tap the link in our bio for more Oprah Daily book lists.

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Going viral can be very overwhelming, especially when it comes to anything like this 🙈

@hschubiner’s groundbreaking work got me over many, many chronic symptoms that have been fobbed off under all kinds of labels over the years, honestly I’ve collected the full alphabet as my long time followers will know… GAD to depression to EDs to TMJ to IBS to PMS then PMDD to chronic neck pain to ME/CFS/long covid to FND and fibromyalgia and on and on 🙃 It was all a hypersensitive nervous system and responded to the right approach, which there’s no one pill or surgery for, unfortunately. The whole system needs “rewiring” in a sense. It’s hard but possible! But I wanted to share the books and YouTube channels that helped me to recover through education and changing how I responded to symptoms and to my own emotions, and I am very glad I did as it has already helped so many people, but I am completely incapable of being there for people in the way some are wanting me to be and so I’ve had to retreat for a while. If you are one of the people who thinks I can walk you through this, please go to these people these are the sources that walked ME through it!

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I need to practice what I preach. Maybe one day I’ll be strong enough /will have enough free time to get a coaching qualification (I have an education degree but coaching is very different from teaching!) but right now, thinking and talking a lot about symptoms isn’t something that feels good for my own nervous system, and I have so many responsibilities that even if I wanted to help you one on one, I simply couldn’t 😭💔🫶 Hopefully this can be a line in the sand. I see you, you are on the right path and I fully believe that if you follow the above folks and practice what they teach you will get to where I’m at! Xxxx

#chronicillness #chronicillnessrecovery #mindbodysyndrome

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Sneak peek- look how cute my slides turned out for my presentation at the ATNS conference in Dallas next week!

The ATNS conferences have been so fun to attend these last 2 years. The presentations are so well done, and there is time before and after to meet and talk to your favorite researchers, authors, podcasters etc in this field.

ATNS stands for the “Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms”. Meaning research based ways using neuroplasticity to treat and cure chronic pain and health conditions.

You may be surprised how many diagnoses can be changed by reprocessing or unlearning pain!

#bodyandmindlifecoach, #painreprocessingtherapy, #painscience, #atnsconference2025, #unlearnyourpain

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I won the book!! Thank you @alantgordon for this gift and message 🫶 this book started my recovery journey from chronic pain, forever grateful for the work you do in this space 🙏

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💭 Sometimes the hardest part of recovery isn’t learning something new. 👇

It’s allowing yourself to hope again.

When you’ve gone through the hope-disappointment cycle so many times, “This probably won’t work for me” can start to feel safer than getting your hopes up again.

Alan Gordon shared that 98% of people in the Boulder back pain study improved, yet many people still reached out believing they were the 2%.

That doesn’t mean they were irrational. It means disappointment had taught them to protect themselves..

You don’t have to force yourself to believe. You can start by looking for evidence, noticing what happens, and allowing hope to return one experience at a time.

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I REALLY wish someone had explained this stuff to me when I first developed chronic pain.

For years, I assumed pain meant there had to be something physically wrong with the part of my body that hurt. So naturally, I spent a ton of time trying to find the problem and fix it.

What I didn’t understand was just how much the brain is involved in creating our experience of pain and other physical symptoms.

And sometimes that system can become sensitized.

The pain is still real. The fatigue is real. The dizziness, digestive issues, tension, burning, tingling, and other sensations are real. But for some people, ongoing damage or disease may not adequately explain why they continue.

That distinction can completely change how you approach recovery.

This is why appropriate medical assessment is important. But when there’s good evidence that symptoms have a neuroplastic component, there are also evidence-based psychological approaches designed to work with the brain and nervous system.

If this is all completely new to you, I’d recommend starting with **The Way Out** by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv or **Unlearn Your Pain** by Dr. Howard Schubiner and Michael Betzold.

Learning this information was one of the biggest turning points in my own chronic pain recovery.

#NeuroplasticPain #PainScience #BrainRetraining #ChronicPainRecovery #ChronicSymptoms #PainReprocessingTherapy #NervousSystemRegulation #Neuroplasticity #MindBodyHealing #ChronicPain

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HAPPY VULVAR AWARENESS DAY. Education on vulvovaginal disorders is neglected even in the training of OB/GYNs.

Vulvodynia remains disturbingly understudied despite affecting a similar percentage of the population as prostatitis. The disparity is staggering: 1,300 PubMed hits for vulvodynia versus 311,000 for prostatitis.

Given these facts, it is logically impossible to claim that biomedical causes of pain are being ‘ruled out’ by the average practitioner. If physical pathology cannot be ruled out due to systemic medical neglect, then claiming the pain is ‘psychogenic’ or ‘neuroplastic’ is a mathematical fraud.

Promoting the ‘mind-body’ narrative under these conditions is not medicine; it is medical misogyny. Until 100% of gynecologists are trained in vulvar disorders and research and funding reaches parity with male-predominant conditions, any claim of ‘psychosomatic pain’ is simply a cover for ignorance.

#Neohysteria #Vulvodynia #MedicalMisogyny #MedicalGaslighting #mindbodysyndrome

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Let’s say you want to start a Collage Care: The Method™️ practice but you are on the fence.

You might consider a four (4) part system, some tips, from the Atomic Habits author James Clear, to get started and to stay engaged.

Special thank you to @nolan_killeen (do follow for some enthusiastic encouragement) for his sharing about this system.

Step One: Make it obvious.

Nolan, is an advocate of a written journaling process (BTW CCTM is a visual journaling system). He puts his journal in obvious places (on his bed or computer) so he can “see” it and be prompted to use his journal.

One way to do this is to set up a corner that is obvious you can see in your home for your CCTM practice. You can also make a box to hold your CCTM work that you can see. This will make it obvious.

Step Two: Make it attractive.

Basically this means in your CCTM corner make it visually interesting and inviting…a place to enjoy doing your CCTM practice.

Step Three: Make it easy.

This means to do your CCTM practice for let’s say 10 minutes rather than an entire hour. Set a timer and stop after 10 minutes.

Do this again tomorrow.

Small and steady steps add up over time. This is called Compound Interest of Habits. Says James, “1% over time adds up.” My friend says, “Little by little.”

Step Four: Make it satisfying.

CCTM is calibrated to make the experience satisfying right away. In each collage-making recipe readers are asked to start by creating a shape they prefer. Many make a triangle.

Seeing that shape glued to the substance right away is a great beginning and it ignites a tone of satisfaction which leads other pleasureful feelings.

I’ll add a Step Five. Know and believe it is it valuable. Time and time again we hear from readers that a CCTM practice helps to increase the value they experience in life by helping them to know themselves better and others too. It fortifies in what Nolan says as investing in the “infinity that lies within yourself.”

#collagecare #collagecarethemethod

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Dies ist für alle Menschen mit chronischen Symptomen und / oder Schmerzen.
Es ist der vierte Beitrag in der sieben-teiligen Reihe: "Coping verstehen", oder anders gesagt: klar kommen!
Viele Betroffene von chronischen Krankheiten verbringen viel Zeit mit Gedanken rund um deren gesundheitlichen Zustand. Die Krankheit annehmen, ohne sich aufzugeben. Die Symptome ernst nehmen, ohne sich darin auszuruhen. Die Hoffnung auf Besserung beibehalten, ohne sich selbst anzulügen. Und, und, und...

Folge mir für alle Tipps, das ist Tipp 4 von 7: Nimm dir die Angst! Hier geht es darum Bewältigungsstrategien zu entwickeln und Antworten auf die Fragen zu finden: Was erlaube ich der Erkrankung, dass sie mit mir macht und wie gehe ich mit ihr um?

Ich weiß: das Thema Mind-Body Ansatz wird in der ME-Community sehr kontrovers diskutiert, bei mir hat es aber Wunder bewirkt, deshalb möchte ich es ansprechen. Ich bekomme außerdem mit, dass es immerwieder falsch verstanden wird. Der Mind-Body-Ansatz sind keine Yogaübungen oder dergleichen, es sind vor Allem Tools, die man gedanklich macht.
Sie nutzen alle die Neuroplastizität des Gehirns, also die Fähigkeit unseres Hirns, Muster zu verlernen und neu zu lernen.
Das Wichtigste vorab: Auf deinen Körper zu hören, ist das wichtigste im Pacing. Der Mind-Body Ansatz soll das nicht ersetzten, sondern soll dir weitere Hilfmittel zur Hand legen, um besser darin zu werden und zwischen relevanten und irrelevanten Körpersignalen besser zu unterscheiden. Oder zwischen "echten" und "unechten Symptomen".
Bei mir war es so, dass ich vor lauter Angst vor einem Crash zunehmend Symptome bekommen habe. Das waren keine Warnsignale ("echte Symptome"), sondern quasi Symptome der Symptome wegen. Wichtig: Das macht sie nicht weniger real!

Es gibt viele Apps, Trainings und Coachings, die Spontanheilungen versprechen und dazu auch noch teuer sind. Manchen Leuten hilft das scheinbar, aber ich will dafür hier weder Werbung machen, noch habe ich jemals selbst Gebrauch von solchen Programmen gemacht. Wofür ich allerdings mit guten Gewissen (unbezahlte) Werbung mache ist der Podcast "Muss das so wehtun?" und dem Buch "Wege aus dem Schmerz" von Alan Gordon. D

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Repost from: • @alantgordon “When you’re constantly under pressure or striving for perfection, your brain can enter a state of high alert. This heightened state can contribute to both the development and maintenance of chronic pain, as the brain misinterprets safe signals from the body as dangerous, leading to neuroplastic symptoms.

It takes time and patience to notice and change the habits that influence chronic conditions. It’s about retraining the brain to notice when you’re feeling under threat, and then understand that these signals are in fact completely neutral and safe.

Remember, it’s a non-linear journey, and being patient with yourself as you work through these changes is key as you train yourself to notice and then loosen your grip. It takes time, like teaching a dog to fetch without running off with the stick. Your brain’s just trying to keep you safe, even if it’s a little overzealous. With some practice, you can teach it to recognize the difference between a real threat and a false alarm.” #chronicpain #kroniskesmerter #fibromyalgi #perfectionism #fear

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#WordsMatter ..... L1, L2, L4, S1 &L5. Compressions, indentation, herniations, bulges............or..........."Normal age related changes"

#chronicpain #painmanagement #healthcoaching #livedexperience

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