Illness and chronic pain feed our sense of hopelessness and depression - and then depression makes our pain worse. We can break this cycle and find ways to work with our pain and our thinking, to find more joy and connection in life, even if we don't know the direction our illness is going.
Physical health and mental health are symbiotic. Facing the realities associated with a newly diagnosed or long-term illness impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and your place in the world.
I have extensive expertise treating people afflicted with chronic pain. This includes extensive research and clinical experience - But I also have lived with it; I have a spinal injury which has induced both acute and chronic pain for most of my adult life. The techniques I use to continue functioning have been successfully imparted to others who are also fighting debilitating pain.