Meditations For Managing Chronic Pain
With Catherine JusticeThis meditation series brings a mindfulness and self-compassion lens towards the experience of managing chronic pain. Learning how to tune into the body can be incredibly challenging when we experience chronic pain. So often when we experience pain, we tune the sensations out as a means of escaping unpleasant sensations. And in the short-run, this could be a great strategy. But in the long-run, if we tune out painful sensations, we start to tune-out opportunities to actually release painful sensations from our bodies. Or conversely, sometimes we get consumed by feelings of pain - unable to experience other sensations from the overwhelm of the painful sensations. This can also backfire, causing our body to "hardwire" the experience of pain into our brain circuitry. This Meditations for Managing Chronic Pain series will give you some basic tools to help befriend your body and utilize evidence-based mindfulness skills to reduce stress and improve our ability to manage and possibly even reduce the complex experience of pain. Utilizing trauma-informed principles, these recordings are designed to be adaptable, offering choice and empowerment to help you find comfort on your own unique healing journey.
Using Mindfulness, Compassion, Relaxation, Yoga Nidra, and Trauma-Informed practices to provide comfort and reduce the suffering from the experience of chronic pain.
About this course
This meditation series brings a mindfulness and self-compassion lens towards the experience of managing chronic pain. Learning how to tune into the body can be incredibly challenging when we experience chronic pain. So often when we experience pain, we tune the sensations out as a means of escaping unpleasant sensations. And in the short-run, this could be a great strategy. But in the long-run, if we tune out painful sensations, we start to tune-out opportunities to actually release painful sensations from our bodies. Or conversely, sometimes we get consumed by feelings of pain - unable to experience other sensations from the overwhelm of the painful sensations. This can also backfire, causing our body to "hardwire" the experience of pain into our brain circuitry. This Meditations for Managing Chronic Pain series will give you some basic tools to help befriend your body and utilize evidence-based mindfulness skills to reduce stress and improve our ability to manage and possibly even reduce the complex experience of pain. Utilizing trauma-informed principles, these recordings are designed to be adaptable, offering choice and empowerment to help you find comfort on your own unique healing journey.
Meet your Teacher
Catherine Justice is an integrative physical therapist, a certified yoga therapist, a yoga researcher, an artist, and a meditation instructor. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota in 2010 and graduated with honors from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine’s two-year Integrative Medicine Fellowship program in 2022. She has studied many styles of yoga and meditation for over 3 decades, is a Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and has been formally trained in iRest Yoga Nidra meditation, trauma sensitive yoga, and other trauma informed healing practices. Catherine is also a graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her work in the performing arts infuses her guided meditations with an authentic delivery that is both calming and engaging. She has dedicated her career to helping to improve equity and reduce suffering in our world. This includes extensive training and experience helping people who experience chronic pain.