Quieting the Noise Learn how quieting the noise helps you understand why stress and anxiety amplify pain, and practical skills that help support greater calm, awareness, and peace. What is Noise? What is noise? It is anything that doesn’t serve you. It could be a blaring radio blasting through your bedroom, preventing you from falling
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Sharpening Discernment Learn how sharpening your discernment can help you manage your pain and experience the peace, ease, and comfort you seek. What is Discernment? What is the meaning of discernment? It is the ability to judge and understand more clearly. It is the ability to see past a superficial understanding of something to separate
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Building Safety Discover how building safety can help your body feel calmer and more at ease, supporting comfort and pain relief. Learn how to create a deeper sense of safety and ease in your body and daily life. Receive reassurance that your pain is real, even when it is invisible, and that better days are
Finding Purpose in Chronic Pain Discover how to find purpose in chronic pain. Learn to listen to what your pain is telling you and turn your challenges into a source of strength. Reframing Chronic Pain Surviving cancer, enduring chemotherapy, and giving away my right lung produced some of the most interesting experiences of my life.
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Coping Strategies Learn how actively participating in your pain management can enhance the benefits of your coping strategies. When you take part in your own pain management, you begin using practical strategies you can return to each day. This can include gradual movement, pacing your activities, learning more about how pain works, and gently rebuilding
Bioplasticity What is Bioplasticity? Bioplasticity refers to the body’s ability to adapt across all its systems. Soft tissues, bone, blood vessels, and metabolic processes all respond to the demands placed on them. These adaptations can be structural or functional. Structural changes include alterations in tissue size, density, or composition. Functional changes include shifts in how
Multiple Protective Systems Learn how pain arises from multiple protective systems and how you can use this information to manage it. Multiple Protective Systems The brain uses multiple protective systems other than pain. Pain isn’t the only way our brain protects us; it also uses endocrine, immune, motor, cognitive, and autonomic nervous system responses to promote
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The Brain Creates Pain What people often call stored trauma isn’t held in the muscles or fascia. Instead, it’s patterns in the brain (neurotags): networks of neurons that link sensation, emotion, meaning, and protection. We may consciously feel these patterns in our body, but the brain creates pain. IASP In 2020, the IASP redefined it
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DIM SIM Balance Learn how pain is dependent on our DIM SIM balance, harmony between safety and danger. DIM SIM Balance Pain looks after you, but can also become overprotective –You can be sore, but safe. DIMs represent danger in me, while SIMs mean safety in me. Both are important for survival. DIMs are beneficial when
Danger Sensors Our body has danger sensors, not pain sensors. Understanding this cracks the code and unlocks the door to effective pain management. Danger Sensors Tissue damage doesn’t have to be present to experience pain – Pain is never detected, it is only produced – Pain nerves, pathways, and signals do not exist – Our
