DAY 1

Introduction to Holistic Pain Care

A healthy amount of skepticism is important, helpful even. But can I ask that you start this challenge with an open mind? It turns out that our expectations directly influence the effectiveness of any treatment or intervention, not just pain care. Throughout this brief course, I will offer evidence so you can see that there is real science behind these strategies. But for today, I’d like for you to just consider your starting expectations.

As you will learn in this course, thoughts and feelings matter. This doesn’t mean that the pain is all in your head! Not at all! It means that pain is in your self. A pain experience is a global experience. As my mentor says, “Pain changes everything, but the opposite is true as well, everything changes pain.”