Tag: chronic pain
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The Mindfulness and Chronic Pain Paradox
The Paradox • If you bring attention to your mild to moderate chronic pain with open curiosity, it will often ease. (And sometimes the same will occur with severe pain) • If you bring attention to chronic pain with the hope of repeating that same ease and relief, it will often stay the same or…
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What If Your Doctor Can’t Explain Your Unpredictable or Shifting Pain?
A client tells me about the physical pain she’s been experiencing that has significantly affected her life, and makes an off-hand comment about whether her pain is “real pain.” What would fake pain be I wonder? As we talk more I come to understand that for her, “real pain” is pain that has a traceable physical explanation. A broken…