Physical and emotional pain are non separate.
Chronic pain is rarely "just physical."
That’s why many chronic pain patients don’t make full recoveries with modalities like PT and chiro, alone.
Physical therapy often lacks an emotional component, by design. They’re not psychotherapists, or trauma-informed bodyworkers.
However, this model of separating mind and body for pain treatment was built for the insurance system.
It was NOT built for the realities faced by chronic pain survivors.
There is always an emotional response to the pain - and sometimes these responses can inhibit or complicate the healing process.
That’s why, often, I have my chronic pain students work with breathing before we ever get into any kind of movement therapy.
I guide my students back to their conscious breathing, an inner reservoir of resource and ease.
With the right safe environment and supportive tools, chronic pain patients can integrate trauma, synthesize new sensory feedback, and experience more peace in their inner worlds… just by breathing.
The breath creates *just enough* space between the pain and the emotions, for the body to create a new shift in the subtleties of sensation & awareness.
The convalescence of these factors, the union of the mind and body, simultaneous healing of emotions and pain, happens through mechanism of the breath.
We all forget the breath exists and is available to us at any time.
Revisit often your breath, this sacred inner current inside your body.
It will allow your body to provide you with direct, clear answers from your soul on how to rewrite the pain patterns in your body, from within.
