After working with hundreds of patients in both a private and a clinical setting, I have innovated a therapeutic treatment model that is effective for people who suffer with a chronic pain condition. My experience ranges from working with amputees, to cancer patients, to those who have damaged nerves, to those who have vertebral injuries in either one or many locations on the spine. I have worked with men who have been crushed by heavy equipment and with women who experienced an odd fall leading to crushed discs in the back. There is no “typical patient” when working in the chronic pain field. Pain is no respecter of financial or social status. Pain will not relent if you are a person who is used to overcoming obstacles. Pain has its own rules and those rules are not kind. Pain is not submissive, …unless you know what is occurring in your body and have the tools to effectively manage it. Here is where I can help. Without the tools you need, pain is akin to a feral animal. It is unrestrained, unrelenting, and interruptive to your life. Maybe some days you wish it would all just go away. The waking up and wondering, “How bad is it today?” Some days it is better. But then other days it is debilitating, or nearly debilitating. You have moments when you wish things were how they used to be, before the pain became a part of your daily life. 

Healing is not the same as a cure. Healing for those who suffer from a chronic pain condition requires continual attention

An effective treatment synthesis of specialized movement, breathing exercises, psychological support, neurological re-training, cognitive exercises, movement therapy, and energetic support will help you develop a new knowledge base for HOW you are going to manage your chronic pain. Meditation is also part of how we help you improve the functioning of your nervous system. Our approach to meditation includes a specialized and targeted system of practices designed to induce regulatory responses within the body. By combining modern research and new scientific information, patients will be taught how to re-pattern existing neural pathways that emerged in response to the injury, disease, or damaged part of the body. Vagus nerve stimulation will also be used to support the body in releasing tension, constriction, and contraction as a result of the pain signals.

These techniques when used correctly and consistently will assist the body in its natural healing tendency. Think about what occurs when you cut your hand. The immediate response is the pain. The pain signal quickly travels up the spinal cord to the brain to draw your attention to the cut on your hand. The blood flow is a reaction to the injury which brings specialized cells to help initiate the healing process. There is no deliberate thinking involved. Rather the intelligent systems within the body initiate the healing response. In the case of a chronic pain condition, the healing response requires specialized assistance.

There are highly complex systems within the body -many of which are operating at the involuntary level- and understanding HOW your body functions is crucial to improving HOW you live with your chronic pain. My program is a therapeutic model that recognizes the need to bring the body into balance to promote healing. Healing is the natural response of the body and yet, because you have a serious and chronic condition, your body must have help.

The goal is to see that you no longer are letting the pain live your life, instead you are living your life and you experience pain

We don’t promise any miracles. No magic. And no cures. Serious pain and injuries take time to address. We want to help you THRIVE instead of SURVIVE your pain. And to do that we have to have a clear-eyed recognition of the underlying causes for your condition. Your history, your medical tests, the surgeries, the treatments, the pharmacological recommendations, and all of the ways you have previously tried to cope with your pain all factors in. But rest assured, we will tap in to every system in your body so that the healing mechanisms are fully awake and supported. When you are provided with training, tools, and techniques you then become empowered to develop a more livable approach to your chronic pain. As well, we want to develop a relationship with you. You will be given support and follow-care once you have completed the program.

My programs implement an entirely different understanding of healing. Healing is not the same as a cure. I promise no miracles. I have no magic. Instead, if your body has undergone changes as a result of an injury, illness, or disease, we must approach the healing intelligence of your body to enhance the potential of healing. But it would be unethical to promise a cure. That is not how Health & Well-being With Beth will work with you. We don’t over-promise. Instead we help you with a full complement of both western and eastern practices so that your body can improve its adaptive response to arrive at higher-functioning self-regulatory patterns.

For all my clients, the starting point is to develop a three-point structure around your particular needs

What is the three-point structure?

It is a simple structure that provides you with a clear guide to your progress

• Increase in self-regulation, decrease in feeling as if everything is under the control of the pain (we work together to help you feel more in control of your life, rather than the pain controlling your life)  

• Decrease in inflammation & decrease in acute break-out pain incidences

• Development of homeostasis, improvement in quality of life