The Pain Coach

The Pain Coach Helping you understand and overcome your chronic pain to live your fullest life Clinics at 132 Harley Street and 2 Lower Sloane Street. Online sessions.

Which seeds are you watering? đź’¦In other words, which thoughts are you giving your energy to? Which are you believing and...
27/09/2025

Which seeds are you watering? đź’¦

In other words, which thoughts are you giving your energy to? Which are you believing and feeding?

What you focus on governs how you feel.

Become aware of this.

How are you feeling?

Now establish what you are believing and focusing on in order to feel that way.

Is the belief true? Are you sure? How sure?

What would it be like in the absence of that belief?

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💡Healthy habits can make your brain age more slowly 💡“a new study by University of Florida researchers found that optimi...
26/09/2025

đź’ˇHealthy habits can make your brain age more slowly đź’ˇ

“a new study by University of Florida researchers found that optimism, good sleep, social support and other positive factors were strongly linked with healthier brains. The findings suggest that how people live and cope with stress can measurably influence the pace of brain aging, even in those living with chronic pain”

RS: fits with the philosophy I suggest—living yourself better.

“Stressful factors like chronic pain, low income, less education and other social risks were associated with older-looking brains”

“protective elements: things like getting restorative sleep, maintaining a healthy weight, managing stress, avoiding to***co and having supportive relationships”

“The message is consistent across our studies, health promoting behaviors are not only associated with lower pain and better physical functioning, they appear to actually bolster health in an additive fashion at a meaningful level, said Kimberly Sibille, Ph.D., an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at UF and senior author of the report”

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** summary from Medical Xpress

Clarifying central sensitisation. Highlights:• It is not demonstrated that Central Sensitization causes Chronic Pain.• T...
26/09/2025

Clarifying central sensitisation.

Highlights:

• It is not demonstrated that Central Sensitization causes Chronic Pain.

• The occurrence of Central Sensitization in humans is yet to be investigated.

• A part of the bibliography misunderstands what Central Sensitization is.

• Questionnaires and evoked-pain responses measure pain, not Central Sensitization.

• To measure Central Sensitization is necessary to record neural activity.

Abstract:

Chronic pain causes disability and loss of health worldwide. Yet, a mechanistic explanation for it is still missing. Frequently, neural phenomena, and among them, Central Sensitization (CS), is presented as causing chronic pain. This narrative review explores the evidence substantiating the relationship between CS and chronic pain: four expert researchers were divided in two independent teams that reviewed the available evidence. Three criteria were established for a study to demonstrate a causal relationship: (1) confirm presence of CS, (2) study chronic pain, and (3) test sufficiency or necessity of CS over chronic pain symptoms. No study met those criteria, failing to demonstrate that CS can cause chronic pain. Also, no evidence reporting the occurrence of CS in humans was found. Worryingly, pain assessments are often confounded with CS measures in the literature, omitting that the latter is a neurophysiological and not a perceptual phenomenon. Future research should avoid this misconception to directly interrogate what is the causal contribution of CS to chronic pain to better comprehend this problematic condition.

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Abstract:Although the biological embedding model of adversity proposes that stressful experiences in childhood create a ...
26/09/2025

Abstract:

Although the biological embedding model of adversity proposes that stressful experiences in childhood create a durable proinflammatory phenotype in immune cells, research to date has relied on study designs that limit our ability to make conclusions about whether the phenotype is long-lasting. The present study leverages an ongoing 20-year investigation of African American youth to test research questions about the extent to which stressors measured in childhood forecast a proinflammatory phenotype in adulthood, as indicated by exaggerated cytokine responses to bacterial stimuli, monocyte insensitivity to inhibitory signals from hydrocortisone, and low-grade inflammation. Parents reported on their depressive symptoms and unsupportive parenting tendencies across youths’ adolescence. At age 31, youth participants (now adults) completed a fasting blood draw. Samples were incubated with lipopolysaccharide and doses of hydrocortisone to evaluate proinflammatory processes. Additionally, blood samples were tested for indicators of low-grade inflammation, including IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and TNF-α, and soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor. Analyses revealed that parental depression across youths’ adolescence prospectively predicted indicators of proinflammatory phenotypes at age 31. Follow-up analyses suggested that unsupportive parenting mediated these associations. These findings suggest that exposure to parental depression in adolescence leaves an imprint on inflammatory activity that can be observed 20 years later.

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New post on pain talking.See my bio link to read and sign up for free. RS 🕊️
25/09/2025

New post on pain talking.

See my bio link to read and sign up for free.

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💥 Flare-ups with chronic pain...a learning opportunity 💥The so-called “flare-ups” are common on the journey.You may be s...
25/09/2025

đź’Ą Flare-ups with chronic pain...a learning opportunity đź’Ą

The so-called “flare-ups” are common on the journey.

You may be surprised by them. When I help you understand your journey, you are no longer surprised.

You move to seeing the natural ups and downs as the way, each offering learnings.

Challenging moments are life showing you where you need to transform something.

Together we clarify what it is—a limiting belief. Which one?

Beliefs are not truths as the you come to discover. Some beliefs are easily update while others can be more subborn.

They feel so convincing because they are deep rooted from year ago.

However, you can still update them.

Freedom is the being free from the constraints of limiting beliefs.

We all have them. We can all shed them and grow.

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Generosity, giving, gratitude.Ingredients for well-being and happiness. These seeds you can water.When you water these s...
25/09/2025

Generosity, giving, gratitude.

Ingredients for well-being and happiness.

These seeds you can water.

When you water these seeds and they grow, the states of generosity and gratitude become more and more lived, meaning there is less reason for your body systems to generate your pain.

Pain is a message about making a shift in your life.

There are many ways to do this, and together we find yours.

It is the misunderstanding of pain that takes people down the wrong path. I think there’s something to fix, or there’s something wrong. No.

Pain is asking for a shift not a fix.

Get in touch today and we can start.

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How are you living?What are you doing? That’s the message you give. RS🕊️
25/09/2025

How are you living?

What are you doing?

That’s the message you give.

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Books. Reading. A delight. RS🕊️
23/09/2025

Books. Reading.

A delight.

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New blog: pain coaching for mental health. In the blog, I explain what pain coaching offers, based on my 30 years experi...
22/09/2025

New blog: pain coaching for mental health.

In the blog, I explain what pain coaching offers, based on my 30 years experience in healthcare, and as a multidisciplinary therapist.

Check my billing to visit the website blog.

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When did you last feel inner peace?You have the seeds inside you already. Inner peace comes when the conditions are such...
22/09/2025

When did you last feel inner peace?

You have the seeds inside you already.

Inner peace comes when the conditions are such that this is the experience.

This is the same for all experiences, including pain.

Whatever you are feeling right now, is because of the conditions.

How you are feeling right now is a message, or information for you to use to know how you are and to meet your needs.

When you meet your needs, you change the conditions and hence change the way you feel.

This is the same with pain.

Pain is asking you to meet your needs, which may require a shift in your thinking and how you live your life.

I’m here to help and guide you.

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New Skill Session posted and shipped on Pain Talking. See my bio link to sign up. RS🕊️
21/09/2025

New Skill Session posted and shipped on Pain Talking.

See my bio link to sign up.

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