FEEL your feelings
When we are dealing with chronic symptoms or symptoms that have no physical structural origin, we are likely dealing with stress or emotional symptoms in the body. The approach to treating these symptoms…
Best Mindfulness/Emotion Regulation Strategies
This 2018 study looked at the association between mindfulness and emotion regulation and the best strategies that emerged out of these two approaches. Because a lot of chronic pain has its roots in the…
Affect Tolerance or Feeling our Feelings
Affect tolerance is a term we use to indicate how much emotion or feeling in our bodies we can sit and tolerate with without needing to shut it down. This is a crucial skill we want to learn when we have…
Feeling your Feelings Creates Healing
One of the things you know I talk about is the overlap between emotions and pain or physical symptoms. The very definition of pain has the word 'emotional' in it. All physical pain or symptoms activates…
Recap From London Chronic Pain SIRPA Conference
Had a fantastic trip over to London for the 2022 Chronic Pain SIRPA Conference. Very educational and inspiring to see so many leaders and practitioners in one place. I want to thank my mentor and head…
Mind-Body Healing & Upcoming SIRPA Conference
As many of you know, I am a physiotherapist and mind-body coach. I am also a SIRPA practitioner and trained under Georgie Oldfield, who is the founder of SIRPA (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners' Association)…
Emotions of Anger & Sadness Amplify Pain
Wanted to review a study here showing the impact of emotions on physical symptoms like pain. What the study found was:
Conclusion. The experience of both anger and sadness amplifies pain in women…
Proof the Brain Causes Physical Symptoms in the Body
Many people have a hard time believing their brains can generate physical somatic symptoms in the body. Studies around what's called the 'nocebo effect' prove the brain is capable of producing all sorts…
Rebecca Tolin: From Healing to Helping Others Heal
I had the pleasure of catching up with Rebecca Tolin, who has not only recovered from her own debilitating chronic fatigue, but has since gone on to helping others heal as a mind-body coach. Rebecca…
An Emotional Part Of Your Brain Can Cause & Cure Physical Symptoms
Do you know your amygdala (the part of your brain that generates negative emotions) has been shown to cause and also cure physical symptoms? Incredible and probably not believable by many. But just because…
