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12/01/2026

12/01/2026

Hi, I’m Sarah.

If you’re dealing with chronic pain, tension, or symptoms that don’t have a clear structural cause, this account is for you.

I combine:
✨ Pain Reprocessing Therapy (teaching your brain that sensations are safe)
✨ Emotional Awareness (processing what’s been stored in your body)
✨ Nervous system regulation (creating safety in your system)

I’ve seen people recover from years of back pain, pelvic pain, migraines, anxiety, fibromyalgia, long covid, and more using these approaches.

Your pain is real.
Your struggle is valid.
And recovery is possible.

Want to know more? Reach out for a free 45 minute discovery call.

10/01/2026

Christmas 2023 vs Christmas 2025

2023: I was three months post-surgical decompression of two nerves in my pelvis. After ten years of chronic pelvic pain, it was my greatest hope that this surgery would finally fix my pain. It didn’t.

After ten years of repeated treatment fails, I was broken.
My spirit was broken.
I’m smiling in this picture, but it was an act.
Every day was an act. Trying to forget the pain. Be normal. Walk to the park with my kids, without wanting to scream.
Putting pants on, without my entire pelvis burning.
Host Christmas, whilst knowing I would have to spend the next day in bed to recover.

Lonely.
Chronic pain is lonely.

6 months later I was told that my only remaining option was to:
Have my tailbone surgically removed.
Or…
Live in pain.
With zero guarantee that it would help.

I left the surgeon. Got in my car and sobbed.
Opened my Spotify and googled ‘Chronic pain”.
And found a podcast. That podcast saved my life.

Within that podcast, I saw myself. And I recognised my own story.

Christmas 2025:
I see light. I see me. I was there the whole time.
Chronic pain had that hiding. Like a lamp under a shroud.

I know this journey is hard. I get it.
Modern pain science can help.

If you are struggling with:
Pain
Fatigue
Insomnia
Long Covid
Fibromyalgia
Anxiety and more…

Reach out for a 30 min discovery call.
2026 can be the year you too, find your light.

06/01/2026

Chronic pain recovery isn’t just about symptoms. It’s also about finding moments of joy.

03/01/2026

For many years, I would wake up on January 1st, feeling dejected. No New Year’s resolutions for me.
All that a new year bought was an awareness that I had just lived another year where my life was overtaken by chronic pain.
That I had lived another year where I had to pretend that I was okay.
Where I had to balance with what I could do with my children with how much rest I would need to recover.
Where I could go to the supermarket, but would need to sleep for two hours afterwards.

I get it.
Living with chronic pain and symptoms is a lonely life. Even those who love you the most forget what you are going through. They can’t get it, unless they have been there.
The hopelessness. The fear. The guilt.

From the other side, I get it.
And I understand how scary it is to try something new.
But - we can have hope.
A paradigm shift is here.

If you are tired of living in chronic pain or with chronic symptoms, reach out.
There is hope.

21/12/2025

The holidays can activate our nervous systems in ways we don’t always expect.
More people. More expectations.
More memories—both joyful and painful.

When emotions are ignored or pushed down, the body often stays in a state of threat. But when feelings are noticed, named, and safely expressed, the nervous system can begin to settle.

You don’t need to force yourself to feel grateful, cheerful, or “together.”
You’re allowed to feel exactly what you feel—and to care for yourself accordingly.

This season, nervous system safety might look like:
• taking breaks;
• saying no without over-explaining;
• letting emotions move instead of managing them;
• choosing authenticity over performance.

Your body isn’t asking for perfection.
It’s asking for honesty and gentleness. 🤍

19/12/2025

Ever notice that the more you try to fix your pain… the louder it gets?”

When pain shows up, our instinct is to fight it.
Stretch it. Crack it. Avoid everything. Google endlessly.

But when we fear pain, the nervous system hears danger.
And a nervous system in danger mode?
It turns the volume up on symptoms.

Pain doesn’t always mean damage.
Sometimes it means protection.
And the more we chase it, monitor it, or panic about it
the more attention and energy we feed it.

This doesn’t mean the pain is ‘in your head.’
It means your body is doing its job… just a little too well.

Healing often starts when we stop trying to control every sensation
and start teaching the body that it’s safe again.

Less fear. Less fixing.
More trust. More capacity.

15/12/2025

Collectively, our hearts are broken with the news of the horror of the terrorist attack in Sydney.

As well as the horror of this event, many people are now noticing a rise in their own symptoms or stress response. This is so normal.

Our brains are not wired to be able to deal with such trauma through the lens of a screen.

For those in Christchurch, the images we have seen will remind our sub-conscious brain of our trauma connected with the Mosque shootings in 2019. The brain is trying to be protective, and will automatically tie these two incidents together. Neurons that fire together, will wire together.

We can help our brain process this trauma:
- Be intentional with your consumption of media.
- Use movement, breath, meditation to help ground yourself.
- Feel your emotions. However you feel, allow it.
- Show yourself some self-compassion. What do you need in this moment?

Sending love to those who have lost loved ones, those injured, and all those who now feel unsafe.

11/11/2025

There has recently been a fascinating review of the role the brain takes in pain and osteoarthritis. This study showed that pain often remains even after structural damage to a joint has repaired, even after a total joint replacement. It is an interesting look at how the brain shapes our experience of pain and sensation in a joint, and how our previous experiences, predictions, emotions (and more) can affect our brains 🧠 perception of safety moving forward.

03/11/2025

Pain isn’t always danger.
Sometimes it’s protection.

Kahlil Gibran said “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
John Sarno said chronic pain is often the "brain trying to protect you".

Pain Reprocessing Therapy teaches the same thing through modern neuroscience.
So when pain and chronic symptoms arise, instead of going into fear → what if nothing is actually wrong with your body?

What if this is your nervous system saying
“there is somewhere inside that still needs gentleness, honesty, safety.”

We heal not by fighting pain,
but by listening to what is underneath it.

This is a different relationship with pain.
A softer one.
A wiser one.
You don’t have to push.
You get to get curious.

If this is landing with you, reach out to see how pain coaching can help.
There is hope.