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Yoga for Compassion Fatigue in the Helping Professions
The upcoming Breathe Retreat for the Helping Professions will provide you with a variety of easy ways to manage compassion fatigue. Read on to [...]
Yoga for Pain Management
The evidence regarding the role of the nervous system in the generation of pain is ever increasing as well as the variety of interventions [...]
Disembodiment and Chronic Pain
Interoception is the ability to tune into what is happening in the body from the inside where we direct our attention inwards. It is [...]
Exploring the stress pain relationship
The article below (click link) outlines the links between emotional processes and persistent pain and how strong emotions can contribute to pain sensitisation. Emotions are [...]
I thought people would judge me…
One common denominator between people with a variety of chronic pain conditions is that there is a reluctance to tell people how much they are [...]
What I never knew about chronic pain
3.2 million Australians live with chronic pain which is not surprising given how little time it takes for the body to develop a chronic pain [...]
Chronic Pain doesn’t mean I have a low pain tolerance
I have always used the terms 'pain threshold and 'pain tolerance' interchangeably so I thought I would share this article that explains the difference between [...]
Reducing Inflammation Starts with the Vagus Nerve
Throughout my years of chronic pain no medical practitioner has ever mentioned the possibility of inflammation as a contributing factor...??? So many pieces of the [...]
Understanding and breaking free of the pain cycle
The pain cycle is such an important aspect of chronic pain that rarely gets explained to people living ongoing pain. Just knowing about the [...]