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.

Pauses through the day. Be still. Be present. Be here now. Life is just this moment. The rest is imagined. This is a pra...
19/04/2026

Pauses through the day.

Be still.

Be present.

Be here now.

Life is just this moment.

The rest is imagined.

This is a practice. Like cleaning your teeth.

Give your body systems the opportunity to change gears.

To rest, recharge, and recover.

In part, this is the message of your pain.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

Quote from the film, The Bookshop. How do you feel in a bookshop?Where are the places you feel most connected with human...
18/04/2026

Quote from the film, The Bookshop.

How do you feel in a bookshop?

Where are the places you feel most connected with humanity?

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

Pain isn’t always just the feeling itself.There’s often something else there too…The thoughts about it.What it might mea...
17/04/2026

Pain isn’t always just the feeling itself.

There’s often something else there too…
The thoughts about it.
What it might mean.
Where it might lead.

And sometimes, that part can feel just as heavy.

I wrote something exploring this more gently—
not to fix anything,
but to help you notice your experience in a different way.

Because convincing doesn’t always mean true.

If you’d like to read it,
it’s on my Substack (link in bio).

It’s free.

And if you’d like to go deeper,
there’s a paid option where I share more reflections and guidance like this.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

Because part of you believes them. Part of you believes it is true. Pause.Ask yourself, is it 100% accurate?In the absen...
17/04/2026

Because part of you believes them.

Part of you believes it is true.

Pause.

Ask yourself, is it 100% accurate?

In the absence of that belief, what must be true?

Things that are true—

* you are already acceptable
* you are already part of the group
* you are already loveable
* you are doing the best you can
* pain does change
* you can transform your life in infinite ways

What must change?

Perspective.

New perspective = new experience.

It’s a skill.

We practice together until you are able to practice yourself.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

A vital insight. The possibilities to transform your life and pain become available when you truly understand this. We g...
14/04/2026

A vital insight.

The possibilities to transform your life and pain become available when you truly understand this.

We get into that in Pain Coaching.

Understand your pain. Transform your life.

That’s our work together—a strategy and how to put it into action in your world, using your strengths and capabilities, to achieve your picture of success.

It must always be about you and your needs and getting better.

Warmest,
Richmond 🕊️

Persistent pain is asking you to keep what works and add new ways of being and living. It’s a message to be understood. ...
14/04/2026

Persistent pain is asking you to keep what works and add new ways of being and living.

It’s a message to be understood.

People who make successful changes show strengths shown in the chart.

Make a list of those you have.

Notice how you feel.

In this week’s Pain Talking (see bio link), I’ll go into how you can use this list of strengths to transform your pain.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

When everything feels important…nothing feels clear.This is one of the hidden struggles of persistent pain.You spend so ...
12/04/2026

When everything feels important…
nothing feels clear.

This is one of the hidden struggles of persistent pain.

You spend so much energy deciding—
that there’s little left for doing.

I’ve shared a simple exercise I use with people to create clarity and reduce that overwhelm.

It’s practical.
It’s gentle.
And you can try it today.

→ Read the full post (link in bio)
→ Subscribe if you want more like this

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

At the heart of Pain Coaching ❤️. With care,Richmond 🕊️
12/04/2026

At the heart of Pain Coaching ❤️.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

It’s normal and useful to weigh things up in your mind before you act. The key is to be present and decide from a place ...
12/04/2026

It’s normal and useful to weigh things up in your mind before you act.

The key is to be present and decide from a place of inner calm and wisdom.

Often in persistent pain, there becomes a certainty about the future and what it will be like.

Yet the future is always unknown.

The future is always imagined.

Keeping this in mind is important because your expectations shape what happens.

You take your next best step by cultivating presence and openness, then deciding the best course of action.

This is a skill set we work upon together in Pain Coaching—you learn to coach yourself to achieve success and freedom.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

Most people living with persistent pain think they need fixing.They don’t.Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with peopl...
11/04/2026

Most people living with persistent pain think they need fixing.

They don’t.

Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with people who transformed their pain—and their lives.

Not by doing more.
Not by fighting harder.

But by doing something astonishingly simple.

They learned to understand their pain.
They changed their relationship with it.
They stopped seeing themselves as broken.

And everything began to shift.

If you’re still struggling…

It doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
It means you haven’t been shown this way yet.

The full post on Pain Talking is where I share what actually works.

→ Link in bio.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

Pain Coaching supports and guides you to make meaningful change—forming new habits, growing, and transforming your life....
11/04/2026

Pain Coaching supports and guides you to make meaningful change—forming new habits, growing, and transforming your life.

It brings together my multidisciplinary background—nursing, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, pain science, coaching, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, compassion focused therapy, non-violent communication, Buddhist psychology, and mindfulness.

But more than that, it’s a way of being.

A way of working that recognises your strengths and your capacity to change—even if things feel stuck right now.

Together, we build a caring collaboration.
You’re the expert in you, your life, and your pain.

I bring the ideas, skills, and experience—so we can understand what’s really going on, and create a clear, personalised strategy that works in your world.

Not just insight—but practice.
Not just short-term change—but lasting transformation.

So you can move forward with more confidence, freedom, and possibility.

If this speaks to you, you’re very welcome to take a first step.

Book a free discovery call via the link in my bio.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

At the ❤️ of Pain Coaching. With care,Richmond 🕊️
10/04/2026

At the ❤️ of Pain Coaching.

With care,
Richmond 🕊️

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