Trauma can result from various occurrences: accidents, physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, neglect, war, natural environmental disasters, loss and its accompanying grief, birth trauma, or any conflict. Surrender is the moment when we tell the truth. We realize we carry past hurts, pains, abuse, shame, guilt, anger, and sadness. And we recognize that we are done […]
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The Twelve Steps to Wellness focus on the teachings of Dr. Peter Przekop, D.O., Ph.D. As Dr. Przekop was the Director of the chronic pain program at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. As a patient in the program in 2013, I experienced profound healing after suffering from chronic pain for over forty
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You may be feeling overwhelmed these days. These are undoubtedly challenging times. But is your strong reaction to what’s happening today all yours, or are you experiencing stress reverberating from the past? We are most likely also carrying the imprints of the effects of tumultuous times from our ancestors. Perhaps you feel it as a
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I remember a time when I was so stressed out. I felt like I was trapped and lost in a dark closet. I couldn’t find the doorknob. Heck, I couldn’t even find the door. Dark shrouded the entire space like an all-enveloping cloak. I couldn’t find even the tiniest hint of light – anywhere. Yet,
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Recovering from the effects of a traumatic experience can be challenging. The elements of trauma recovery include holistic healing tools and modalities able to address the changes in the mind/body/spirit that occur because of one’s traumatic experience. What is trauma? Dr. Gabor Mate defines trauma this way: “Trauma isn’t what happened to you. It’s what
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Chronic pain sufferers are some of the most hope-filled people in the world. We can descend into hopelessness, too. Our issues with control dovetail here. Chronic pain sufferers in recovery need a strategy to regain their footing by helping to reset the stress response, calm the mind, and find inner peace and contentment. Like all
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How can we be less vigilant about the aches and pains? That’s an interesting question. I love that question. So here’s the key. We must start with the nervous system because that’s where hypervigilance lives – in the nervous system. When we’re hypervigilant, the body is telling us that the stress response is out of
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Negative emotions like guilt and shame, when carried and felt for 15 days out of thirty for three months or more, become a form of chronic pain. Emotions are what we feel, not who we are Emotions are what we feel, not who we are. Yet we allow them to dictate who we are, how
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Chronic pain is misunderstood My experience of talking with thousands of chronic pain sufferers is that the voice of chronic pain is misunderstood or not heard at all. In chronic pain, we tend to speak from one of two extremes: we either constantly complain or remain silent. I have done my best to give voice
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What is resilience? People vary in their ability to adapt to stress in life and different abilities to recover from stressful experiences. This capacity to handle stress is called resilience. Key factors determining resilience are the qualities that help you recover from a stressful event and help you thrive in the face of any
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