Anxiety Can Be the Cause of Physical Symptoms
I work with a lot of people with chronic symptoms and anxiety is one of the top things I see in many patients. What many people don't realize is that anxiety alone can create physical symptoms in the body…
How To Use Reverse Psychology On Your Symptoms/Feelings
Have you ever thought about doing the complete opposite of what you've been doing with your symptoms? We know fighting and resisting what we feel doesn't really work. What we resist persists. The opposite…
Chronic Pain: A Protective Response from Psychological Threats
All pain is meant to protect us from something. It is always a protective response to try to help us as it thinks something is too dangerous or threatening. The definition of pain is that it is both a…
The Body’s Alarm System: Is it Ringing with Pain?
The body's alarm system is your brain and nervous system. With chronic pain, the alarm system stays turned on or is easily triggered to turn on. The alarm system is trying to protect us and thinks there…
Making Changes in Your Subconscious System To Heal
This article really encapsulates many aspects of my mind-body treatment program for chronic pain and chronic health ailments. As Dr. Sarno states in his best selling books, we are talking about the subconscious…
Some Signs and Symptoms of Too Much Stress (TMS)
Not many people think of TMS- Too Much Stress as the culprit in their chronic health ailment. The medical establishment is too fixated on structural findings, which we know have poor correlations with…
Let the Body Do It’s Thing
This article highlights what I have felt for a long while- the body knows what its doing so let it do it. In this case, researchers are finding out ice is not really helpful for injuries. In fact it may…
Movement is Medicine
Getting moving is one of the best ways to deal with persistent pain or symptoms. Here I go over some interesting research about exercising and chronic pain. You may be surprised by the findings here- is…
Interoception- What is it and why is it important with Chronic Pain?
Interoception does not refer to the game of NFL football (: It is the medical scientific term for "awareness of inner body sensations, involving the sensory process of receiving, accessing and appraising…
FREE Upcoming Online SIRPA Summit for Chronic Pain
October 10th, 2019, SIRPA will be presenting a FREE online summit for chronic pain. There will be multiple speakers, including myself. We are all SIRPA practitioners helping people with chronic pain. If…
