In this blog I’m going to share a little about the mindful compassion based 5 steps stress awareness and management model I’ve developed. First, let’s take a quick look at a few points around stress. Stress often gets a bad press, which is because it negatively affects our health and wellbeing when it’s certain types …
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The festive period can be a wonderful time and a difficult one too for a variety of reasons for some people, including for people managing health conditions associated with persistent pain and fatigue. These health conditions include: persistent pain, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, long covid and PoTS. If you live with one of these conditions, or another, …
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What Is Pacing? There isn’t an agreed definition of pacing, I would define it as flexible way of structuring your day in a way that supports both function and wellbeing. Pacing essentially means breaking down tasks and activities into manageable chunks with consideration of the different types of activities, including enough short rest breaks …
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This is part two of the healing within connectedness & love blog, in this blog we will look briefly at the importance of aligning mind, body & heart, along with connectedness in healing, especially living from the heart, connected to our true selves/true nature, other people, love and nature. You can find part one of …
What Is a Pain Specialist Physiotherapist & How Is This Different to MSK Physiotherapy? Persistent pain (also known as chronic pain) is a specialist area/field in healthcare, it’s an area that I have specialised in and wanted to share a little on what this means. A little background on physiotherapy training, following completion of …
If you haven’t read part one of the blog yet you can find that here https://unityphysio.co.uk/grief-loss-in-persistent-pain-other-health-conditions-part-one/ What Can Help We need resources to help us in the grief process, resources help balance the challenges & vulnerabilities that arise. Two really important inner resources are compassion & being able to regulate the nervous system, I think …
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The guidance in this blog can be used for people with and without persistent pain. Many people know exercise is essential for the health of body, brain and mind. We get modulation of pain perception, known as exercise induced hypoalgesia, from a release of helpful chemicals like endorphins and dopamine. However, for people with persistent …
What is commonly referred to as a flare-up in pain? An increase in pain or fatigue that significantly disrupts your daily function and/or sleep for a few days or more is commonly referred to as a flare-up, some people use other terminology, for example a set-back. Some things commonly go along with this including increased …
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Living well with pain can be misunderstood to mean that pain won’t change or go away, or having to put up with it and that nothing can be done. This is not what it means! Pain can and does change, nothing is ever the same even though it may feel like it is. For some …
What is Recovery From Suffering With Pain to Living Well I am referring to recovery from suffering with pain to living well in this blog as being able to live a values aligned life that’s full of meaning, with pain being in the background. Let’s get the clouds cleared and say now that pain can …
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