Complex Regional Pain Syndrome : Your Path To Healing

I recently got involved in a debate among several chronic pain sufferers who are struggling with the mindbody approach. Having tried for a few months, with only a minor success, one of them posed the question: am I not working hard enough in my mindbody practice to be able to heal? Should I see more…

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”  Anthony de Mello So often I am taken aback by the question, “Are you fully recovered?” from TMS sufferers, and even my own coaching clients…

One may ask, what is the connection between purpose in life and chronic pain? Well, chronic pain can easily become an all-consuming existence, a black hole of a kind – unless you find something that gives you purpose and takes you away from chronic pain.   This point is supported by evidence from many of…

Do you avoid conflict at all costs? Conform to the expectations of others? Worry about the needs and preferences of others above your own? Are you over accommodating or adaptive for fear of ruffling feathers? Have trouble asserting yourself or setting boundaries? Do you have difficulty saying “No” or disagreeing with others? Do you chastise…

Occasionally, I get questions from the readers about past emotional trauma and benefits of digging into the traumatic past. Often people find that facing their painful past causes them even more pain, and they choose to shut the door on it again, thus pushing their emotional pain out of their conscious mind and finding themselves…

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” I always loved this line in the poem by Dylan Thomas…a battle cry of defiance and the refusal to settle. The truth was, that if it were not for my own odyssey into chronic pain, I may never have…

When I first learned about mind-body healing, it immediately made sense to me. But I did not know how and where to start. After about a month of trying my pain was still raging through my body, and I got very upset. Upset with myself, because I read in the Dr. Sarno’s book about all…

A recent experience at the ophthalmologist spurred me to examine the idea of the label and our society’s seeming obsession with labels. Since the time I was little, nothing makes me more squeamish than eyeballs. Every trip to the eye dr. would begin with my nervous laughter and ensuing vasovagal reaction, instructions to put my…

I remember very clearly the time when my CRPS was at the peak. I wanted to stop the pain right then, instantly. I would have given a lot for the chance to get that magic pill that would put the end to the relentless neuropathic pain that was present constantly, day or night, the worst…