Resources To Help Your Healing Journey

Increasing knowledge is one of the most effective way to empower yourself when it comes to your pain. Use this educational material during and after the course to flood your mind with correct, true principles so you can continue towards the life you want to live.

Articles

Basic Pain Neuroscience

This article helps one to understand the complexities of pain, how it is affected by the nervous system, and practical ways to manage it long term.

Low Back Pain: Correcting the Myths

This article helps correct misunderstandings about low back pain that lead to more disabiling, chronic pain.

IFS and Chronic Pain

This article is helpful to find ways to externalize your pain and approach it more effectively to treat it. It also explains how psychological factors can influence our pain

General chronic pain videos

"The Mystery of Chronic Pain" by Elliot Krane

Mindfulness and its effect on chronic pain

"Chronic Pain: From Survival to Support" by Kat Naud

"Why We Hurt" by Lorimer Mosely

Chronic stress and its effect on pain

Chronic pain and resilience

"Pain and the Brain" by Julia Gover

Myths vs. facts of low back pain

"A New Way to Think About Pain" by Lauren Cannell

Mindfulness resources

How to go from a chaotic mind to successful meditation

Changing from a forceful attitude to calm down to letting go

What to do with disturbing thoughts that might come up during meditation

Full guided meditation for chronic pain (19 min)

Principles behind the concept of somatic tracking and a guided meditation

Full guided meditation for chronic pain (10 min)

Podcasts

A compilation of stories of people who have had chronic conditions that seemed untreatable but found relief and a meaningful life

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Educational podcasts from experts regarding pain neuroscience and effective chronic pain treatment

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IFS principles and strategies for a variety of mental health and physical conditions. Best for those who have found success using IFS for pain externalization

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Worksheets and assignments

Pain mechanisms worksheet

Start here! Find out how much of your pain is driven by structural factors, nerve factors, and nervous system processing factors in order to make educated decisions to treat your pain.

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Pain in context worksheet

Explore factors that influence your pain so you can anticipate and better manage flare ups.

Values-based goal worksheet

Get help setting meaningful, achievable goals whether or not pain is there.

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IFS parts deep dive

Discover how to identify the internal voices that emerge during flare-ups to keep you trapped in suffering, and reclaim the version of yourself you truly love.

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Pain biography instruction

Learn how to make the best out of your experience writing you pain biography.

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Group agreement

Review these guidelines to help create a safe, respectful space for sharing and vulnerability in group sessions. Show your commitment by signing the agreement.

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