by Jessica Kisiel | May 28, 2026 | Pain Science Education
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...
by Jessica Kisiel | Dec 15, 2025 | Pain Science Education
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.”...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 11, 2025 | Pain Science Education
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...
