Combining Solutions For Complex Pain Syndromes Pain treatment is now considered to be the most demanding health epidemic in the United States, surpassing heart disease, cancer and other medical problems. Even the U.S. government has declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency (without additional funding for it). Medical [...]
Living Life Beyond Pain, Part 2 Watching the media this week, I saw highlighted our society’s paradox in the pursuit of relief from chronic pain. On the one hand, we see nearly daily media stories on the opioid epidemic; on the other, commercial products continuously promise for “fast relief” for [...]
Living Life Beyond Pain, Part 1 Living Life Beyond Pain - September is National Pain Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness about the prevalence of pain and the treatment options available. Many of us see clients with chronic pain struggling to find appropriate resources that may help them regain their [...]
Leveraging the Power of Somatic Wisdom Techniques Our bodies carry an innate understanding and awareness, something we can refer to as somatic wisdom. Traditional psychology has long emphasized “talk therapy” using cognitive and verbal processes as the primary treatment for distress and disregulation. But as you may have discovered in [...]