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.

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.

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.