What is Physical Pain?
Pain is a necessary signal that alerts us when there is injury (like touching a burning hot stove), or tells us that something is wrong in the body. Chronic pain goes beyond signaling a person to illness or injury, but is instead, is a longer lasting, persistent discomfort that can be a detriment to a person's psychological well-being. Medical intervention often cannot fully resolve chronic pain (Like vertebrae degeneration) or chronic illness (like Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, Lupus or Epstein Barr, among others.) These illnesses often result in a need for pain management including various forms of opiods, injections, infusions, and other treatments for chronic autoimmune illnesses.
In recent years, research has shown that a bio-psycho-social model of treatment has helped patients in managing the pain they have, In a process of deeply accepting their pain in moments when it feels scary or debilitating, patients report LESS perceived pain. Therapy can change our relationship to our bodies and the sensations we experience there. Using treatments like Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems, a patient can come to a healthier understanding of oneself, one's body, and the world (s)he lives in. In short - life can become more more tolerable, and even positive and joy-filled.
How Do Therapists Work With Clients in Chronic Pain?
The "mind-body connection" is a phrase that is thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? It means that psychological pain can manifest as physical pain, and vice versa. The way that you feel physically influences the way that you think and feel - and conversely, what you're thinking and feeling can have a definite worsening effect on the pain you're experiencing in your body.
The word “feeling” implies an emotional sensation. Interestingly, psychology looks at "emotional feelings" as a bodily experience. If you learn to pay attention in the right way, you can identify WHERE your emotional trauma lives in your body. Surprisingly, those feelings often live at the site of your injury or illness. When we find WHERE they are, we can work with the emotional signature that may be causing or worsening your pain.
Chronic pain can cause a person to feel depressed and hopeless. The opposite can also be true. Depression and hopelessness often CAUSE chronic pain or illness, too.
The word “feeling” implies an emotional sensation. Interestingly, psychology looks at "emotional feelings" as a bodily experience. If you learn to pay attention in the right way, you can identify WHERE your emotional trauma lives in your body. Surprisingly, those feelings often live at the site of your injury or illness. When we find WHERE they are, we can work with the emotional signature that may be causing or worsening your pain.
Chronic pain can cause a person to feel depressed and hopeless. The opposite can also be true. Depression and hopelessness often CAUSE chronic pain or illness, too.
You Can't Be Comfortable in your "SKIN"
If You're Not Standing in the Truth of ALL THAT YOU ARE.
Understanding your inner self - your emotions and thoughts - goes a long way toward dealing with what's going on in your body. Coming to peace with your past very often clears physical pain. (It usually comes as quite a welcome surprise when a person experiences pain relief upon resolving past trauma or hurt in therapy sessions!) We see a clearing of physical pain about 75% of the time.
We'll use meditation, mindfulness and hypnosis along with inner constellation work to clear out old belief patterns that are literally stuck in your body. It's sort of a mysterious thing which many people can't believe before they experience it. But the evidence is there through decades of research: healing emotional blocks and trauma changes our experience inside our bodies.
Sessions are conducted over the phone, as you are encouraged to be lying in your own bed or a comfy couch to do this very relaxing work. Try 3 sessions with Paige and see if you're not impressed with the kind of progress that can be made through psycho-somatic work.
We'll use meditation, mindfulness and hypnosis along with inner constellation work to clear out old belief patterns that are literally stuck in your body. It's sort of a mysterious thing which many people can't believe before they experience it. But the evidence is there through decades of research: healing emotional blocks and trauma changes our experience inside our bodies.
Sessions are conducted over the phone, as you are encouraged to be lying in your own bed or a comfy couch to do this very relaxing work. Try 3 sessions with Paige and see if you're not impressed with the kind of progress that can be made through psycho-somatic work.