Pain Management
Pain… Perhaps as you read the word your mind goes right away into some spot in your body. Your shoulders, your neck, your back, your hips, your knees, your head, your stomach, the list is endless. Perhaps you’ve been with this pain for a long time, so long that it seems that it’s a part of you and you just have to live with it. Perhaps you already tried everything, and after some improvements, it’s back again. At times you may feel alone and even abandoned in your pain. Some times it takes over your day, and you have learned to endure. At times it’s a little better and you have the energy to live through another day.
Injuries, accidents, surgery, illness, work environment, physical work, modern lifestyle, stress, can be some of the causes of pain.
Living in pain is not fun. It can be depressing. Pain can take away your zest for life, your enthusiasm, your creativity. It can affect you psychologically and mentally. Pain can feel isolating at times. And you are not alone. Many of us have been in pain for 10, 20, 30 or more years. How can our human bodies endure so much pain and still carry on day by day?
A large number of us run looking for medication to alleviate a symptom. But is it really necessary or desirable to counteract a normal defensive bodily response? It is preferable to listen to our body. Forcefully silencing the body cuts our relationship with it.
And here is the good news. Pain is actually not a bad thing.
Pain is your body’s way of communicating with you. How good are you at listening to your body’s outcries? Do you choose to ignore the pain? Do you use your pain as a way to receive sympathy from others? Do you confront your pain head on and strategically seek out a remedy? Can you easily recognize subtle changes in your body or does it take a brick to hit you over the head to grab your attention?
If the purpose of pain is to protect the body from further damage, we need to be pro-active and listen.
The goal of this Support Group is to empower you, in a supportive and compassionate setting, to listen to your pain, to open yourself to it and to the possibility that pain is a teacher and that it can be overcome and released in many cases. You will learn to not let your pain run your life.
In each session we will investigate and try out many ideas, techniques and protocols together with mindful body movement techniques, guided imagery and meditation as well as various dialoguing exercises.
| I was referred to Moira by a friend at work. I was suffering with sciatica, hip and lower back pain. I tried everything (chiropractor, physiotherapy) nothing was working. I was giving up and saying Tylenol # 3s were in my life forever. After a session with Moira I knew I had found someone that could help me. Sure enough! She is my angel. I see Moira regularly by choice. During my sessions and discussions I have also gotten help from her regarding very painful menstrual cramps and tiredness. I can’t say enough about Moira, I believe in her totally!!” Barb |
| I find Moira to be caring and compassionate and very in tune with my body. By removing energy blocks I believe she was instrumental in my having a pain free total hip replacement.Moira brings high value to her clients by continuing to educate herself so she may offer a variety of healing modalities to her practice.
Kasandra |