Pain Story Blog
Breaking Free from the Fear-Avoidance Cycle
Breaking Free from the Fear-Avoidance Cycle What we don’t understand, we fear. What we fear, we judge as evil. What we judge as evil, we attempt to control. And what we cannot control…we attack. —Anonymous This anonymous quote seems quite applicable to pain....
Pain: A Balancing Act Between Feeling Safe or Threatened
Pain: A Balancing Act Between Feeling Safe or Threatened Our emotional state impacts our chronic pain experience. Thus, feeling safe or threatened can increase, decrease, or completely eliminate the sensation of chronic pain. Essentially, how much something hurts is...
Story Share: Pause, Reflect, and Choose into an Athletic Challenge to End the Pain
Story Share: Pause, Reflect, and Choose into an Athletic Challenge to End the Pain Story by Jessica Kisiel and shared with her permission To Ride or Not to Ride? Some time ago, this was my query, whether to go on a challenging bike ride or to stay home. I...
Chronic Pain: A Perfect Storm with Many Factors
Chronic Pain: A Perfect Storm with Many Factors A perfect storm, like chronic pain, emerges when numerous factors combine simultaneously. Merriam-Webster defines “perfect storm” as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.”...
Pain Relief Through a New Understanding: Why Changing Your Story Matters
Pain Relief Through a New Understanding: Why Changing Your Story Matters Your Pain Story is not a physical sensation, but rather the explanation you have devised to make sense of why you hurt. As shown in the image above, it often lands higher, appears bigger, has red...
