the blog
Chronic Pain Takes Time
Patience and consistency for the win. A story about working with my dad.
Pain Demands Your Attention
Pain doesn't exist outside of our attention. How this concept can help us detach from the idea that pain lives in our tissues.
Your Eyes, your body state, and your pain
The we way see the world, literally and figuratively, helps determine our physical sensations.
Can you sit with it? Lessons from a Dyson
The value of being uncomfortable and how it sparks curiosity — a path to pain relief.
Where Your Attention Is Matters
“Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.” James Clear
My Recent Back Pain Story
A first hand experience in using there 1, 2, 3, response tool for pain management.
Managing Your Thoughts at the Onset of Pain: how to relieve pain without pills
The absolute BEST tool for handling a new or recurring painful sensation.
Change in Output Requires Change in Input
“In order to get better, you must have some psychological flexibility.” Lorimer Mosley. How using pain as an identity can limit one’s capacity for healing.
Hip Pain While Walking — an example of the many factors of pain
Understand how something as simple as hip pain while walking can be a lens into the complexity of how pain works in our brains and our bodies.