Most practitioners don't light up when a new client says the word "migraines." I do. That might sound like an odd thing to say about a condition that flattens people for days at a time. But migraines are one of my favourite symptoms to treat, and there are three reasons why. Reason 1: You know whether it's working With a lot of chronic pain, progress is fuzzy: "I think it's a bit better?" Migraines are different. People who get them can usually tell you exactly how often they

Something I see in my clinic all the time: a person walks in already convinced their body is broken. Not because of how they feel, but because of what they've been told. A scan report full of alarming words. A practitioner who said their neck was "a mess," "full of knots," or "the worst I've seen this week." An x-ray described as "bone on bone," or a back that supposedly looks "like an 80-year-old's." They often hurt more after being told these things, not less. And that isn'

If you've ever wondered why a knee you hurt years ago still aches, why a surgical scar that healed cleanly still feels "off," or why pain keeps moving around and outlasting every scan that says you're fine, then this post is for you. The answer often comes down to a single question your nervous system never stops asking: am I safe? In a previous post I wrote about neuroplastic pain and Dr. Howard Schubiner's Unlearn Your Pain model, the idea that much chronic pain is a learne

Here is a sentence that has changed thousands of lives: most chronic pain is real, but it is not always coming from damaged tissue. Often it is coming from the brain itself - from nerve pathways that have learned to produce pain and keep firing long after any injury has healed. That idea is the heart of Dr. Howard Schubiner's book Unlearn Your Pain. Dr. Schubiner is an internal medicine physician who was himself a patient and student of the late Dr. John Sarno, the pioneer wh

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