CatherinePollitt PainRecovery

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30/06/2025

The right way round: Proactively engage in what makes you feel good & relief from persisting pain will follow.

27/06/2025

To ease persisting pain, fuel your life with what brings YOU joy.

24/06/2025

To relieve persisting pain, first realise & do what brings you joy. Relief will follow.

19/06/2025

Such an important concept to graciously accept as you move towards recovery from persisting pain.
So many of us who've now recovered from years of recurring symptoms, perhaps in our back, neck, shoulders, hip, knees or feet, learned that it was often our externally focused, people-pleasing personality (that we'd developed in childhood) that was continuing to induce stress into our nervous system & so fueling the pain.
Throughout our recovery we learned to prioritise our self-care, embrace self-compassion and give ourselves the time and space to practise the mind-body strategies that worked for us.
No matter how long lasting or severe your symptoms, your wonderfully neuroplastic system can change. You can recover.

17/06/2025

"Practice makes progress".
"Persistency & consistency are key to recovery".
Such helpful reminders that the experts in Chronic Pain encourage, as you embrace the strategies of the mind-body approach to recovery, & move forwards to the joyful life you'd love - at work, at home and with all the hobbies & sports you may have thought you'd left in the past.

13/06/2025

I was thrilled to spend a lovely dinner chatting to Dr Kennedy & her wonderful coaching team the night before the SIRPA conference in London. Looking forward to listening to this conversation between two greats in the field of mind-body medicine...

I spoke with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy about her transition from traditional primary care to the mind-body practice she runs today. Slowly, gradually, the medical world is starting to wake up to the mind-body connection and the role the brain, stress, emotions, and trauma play in the production and persis...

02/06/2025

"What do you do now?" can be a little challenging when working within a pioneering field of healthcare evolution! I've just spent a lovely weekend catching up with old school friends in the beautiful Cotswolds & of course this question came up more than once:

28/05/2025

Suppressing emotions (whether that's anger or sadness or any of the myriad we humans experience) can lead to their "coming out" differently... & often that can be as symptoms - sometimes as gentle whispering niggles or sometimes, if continuously ignored & let to accumulate, as louder symptoms of pain or illness.
This week for me has led to a deeply heart-breaking loss of my beautiful canine soul mate, and I have allowed myself the time and space to feel & express, with torrents of tears, every wave of devastating sadness as each flows or crashes out from within me.
Now I understand the expression, cry me a river.

The Paradox of Emotions: Embrace, Don't Suppress
Did you know that bottling up your anger can actually disrupt your nervous system? True emotional regulation isn't about hiding your feelings—it's about acknowledging and experiencing them fully.

When we suppress emotions (especially anger), our bodies stay in a state of tension. This image reminds us that all emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, excitement—are part of a natural cycle that needs to flow freely for our wellbeing.

Next time you feel anger rising, try giving yourself permission to feel it mindfully rather than pushing it away. Notice how different that feels in your body.

What emotion do you find hardest to express? Share in the comments below—let's normalise talking about our full emotional spectrum!