Since I’m a Pilates and Fitness professional, most people I meet are surprised to hear about my general aversion to exercise. Yes, you heard that right – it’s more in my nature to curl up on the couch and read than it is to move! How did I get into movement as a career? Partially …
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Overcoming unimaginable challenges through self-care, transformational and wellness leaders from The Wellness Universe share their stories with the goal of inspiring you to live your best life. Join us on Self-Care True Stories. In this series, we look to wellness leaders, gurus, and experts to light the way for us. Direct us. Guide us. What was …
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 …
Overcoming unimaginable challenges through self-care, transformational and wellness leaders from The Wellness Universe share their stories with the goal of inspiring you to live your best life. Join us on Self-Care True Stories. In this series, we look to wellness leaders, gurus, and experts to light the way for us. Direct us. Guide us. What was …
To say that living with chronic pain is no picnic would be an understatement. It’s one of those things that affects every facet of your life and can often lead to a sense of hopelessness, frustration, and fatigue from living in pain day in and day out. While there are many different types of chronic …
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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 …
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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Overcoming unimaginable challenges through self-care, transformational and wellness leaders from The Wellness Universe share their stories with the goal of inspiring you to live your best life. Join us on Self-Care True Stories. In this series, we look to wellness leaders, gurus, and experts to light the way for us. Direct us. Guide us. What was …
Chronic pain is any physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual pain that is felt for fifteen days out of thirty for three months or more. The experience of chronic pain can impart the burden of deep and pervading shame for someone. There\’s this shade of shame that hangs around people suffering from chronic pain. It sure …
