03/17/2025
Chronic pain and trauma are intimately connected. For the majority of the first half of my life, I was in chronic pain after enduring 4 back surgeries. Fortunately, I learned my way out of chronic pain by learning to regulate my autonomic nervous system. This is knowledge that has been known both in the alternative and allopathic medical community for the last 6,000 years, but rarely is explained to patients in an appropriate way by healthcare providers. Why? Many reasons on both the patient and provider side, but one glaring reason is that there is no money to be made by educating patients on how to effectively eliminate their pain (one of the side-effects of a profit driven medical model).
While I’ve promoted this truth in my massage practice for the last 13 years, I’m beyond grateful that I’ll be able to promote this in the public health setting in 2 years ❤️. If I play my cards right, my dreams are to promote specifically to the LGBTQIA+ community, because as the super nice lady at the dispensary told me, “Oh my god that’s so amazing! People literally deserve not to die!”
