Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain

Por Audriana Monteiro

O que você irá aprender

This course is intended for people living with chronic pain. In this 7-day course, you will work through the concepts of acceptance and commitment therapy and use these principles to change your relationship with your chronic pain. Included are education sessions, mindfulness meditations, and specific exercises related to acceptance and commitment therapy. You may decide to journal some questions asked throughout the course to help you understand your pain experience in a different light. Audriana aims to provide a wide variety of educational content and practical tips to help you feel empowered in navigating your chronic pain journey.

Audriana Monteiro

British Columbia, Canada

Audriana is a physiotherapist and trauma-informed yoga instructor. She is passionate about working with individuals with chronic pain and empowering them to feel safe in their bodies. She understands the role that trauma can play on the nervous system and brings this knowledge into her role as a practitioner. Audriana prides on using her knowledge...

Lição 1

Language And Relations With Pain

In this lesson, you will learn how your relationship with language contributes to your pain experience. The lesson goes through how your brain processes language and how language causes you to store memory. It provides examples of how the different language people have used with you, and the different things you have heard, have impacted your pain experience.

Lição 2

Psychological Flexibility

In lesson two, we learn all about the ACT concept, psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility is defined as well as how it can be helpful for chronic pain. You will also be led through a meditation that allows you to practice being psychologically flexible.

Lição 3

Avoidance Vs Acceptance Of Pain

In lesson three, we look at how you have been avoiding your pain and how you have been accepting of your pain. We discuss different types of avoidance and look at how avoidance can be beneficial and not so beneficial. The lesson ends with a meditation to help you practice gentle acceptance of your pain.

Lição 4

Finding Your Values

In lesson four, we go through what values are and the difference between values and goals. We also discuss the importance of finding your values in order to live a life according to them when living life with chronic pain. We then go through a few different exercises to help you find your values.

Lição 5

Unhooking From Thoughts

In lesson five, we go through how we can look at our thoughts, allowing them to come and go without impacting our behavior. We discuss the difference between clean and dirty pain, and how each of these impact our thoughts. We then go through some meditative, visualization exercises to help you discover your clean and dirty pain, and unhook from your thoughts.

Lição 6

Finding Acceptance

In lesson six, we dive into what it means to accept your pain, and what it doesn't mean. We go through an exercise that allows you to see how willing you are to live with your pain experiences in service of doing what you love. The lesson ends with a meditation to bring awareness to your pain monster.

Lição 7

Taking Committed Action

In the final lesson, we look at how you can take committed action by using acceptance and commitment therapy in your daily life. We discuss what committed action is and end with a committed action exercise to set yourself up with a goal you can take into the future.

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