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The Pain Relief Secret: How to Retrain Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body and Overcome Chronic Pain by Sarah Warren
Pain can be elusive, frustrating, confusing, ‘illogical’, a bully, motivating, short term or seemingly everlasting and exhausting. It is interpreted by our brains and nervous systems differently. In her book published in 2019, Sarah Warren tells her story about experiencing two serious back injuries while training and performing as a ballet dancer.
After her dance career ended, Warren discovered the work of Thomas Hanna and his technique called ‘Clinical Somatic...
Just Breathe
As I worked with two different clients this week, I realized something that I hadn’t thought about in a while. Both clients presented with very similar chronic pain patterns. And this week for some reason their pain seemed to be much worse than usual.
What if I could help them lower the activity of their ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response - the activity of their sympathetic nervous system?
While we spoke about their past few days, I realized that their pain was idiopathic -...
