Chronic pain doesn’t just affect your body—it impacts your thoughts, emotions, and daily choices in a way that can reinforce suffering. This post explores the pain cycle through a CBT lens and gives you two practical tools to start shifting your relationship with pain.

Pain can shape how you move through the world, narrowing your sense of what’s possible. Integrating somatic practices, mindfulness, and polyvagal-informed techniques offers a path toward greater ease, resilience, and connection with your body.

Forms in therapy can feel clinical, cold, or like a barrier between you and your provider. But when used thoughtfully, they can become powerful tools for healing. Learn how these measures help us stay grounded in what matters most: your lived experience and your goals.

Chronic pain therapy isn’t just for people with a formal diagnosis. And it’s not just for folks whose pain is “severe enough.” It’s for anyone who’s feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or curious about what might be possible with the right kind of support.

Learn why pain is not a punishment, how healing is possible, and how seeking relief can align with your beliefs, whether you’re religious, spiritual, or secular.

Living with pain, you know it’s so much more than the physical sensations. Learn more about how to cope with “all the rest” and how a pain psychologist can help.