September 18, 2019

Sarah Shockley on Living with Chronic Pain

44 minutes

Sarah Shockley is a multiple award-winning producer and director of educational films including Dancing From the Inside Out, a highly acclaimed documentary on disabled dance. Sarah is the author of a number of books on living with chronic pain, including the one discussed in this episode, The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain.

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In This Interview, Sarah Shockley and I Discuss Living with Chronic Pain and…

Her book, The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain

How it’s hard for us to heal when we’re in a battle with pain

The good wolf aspect of pain

Feeding into healing vs feeding in living with chronic pain

Her experience with debilitating pain

The many components of chronic pain – in addition to the physical component

How isolating chronic pain can be

Chronic emotional pain

Seeing pain differently

Turning towards pain and asking it, “What could positively be your positive purpose here?”

What you resist persists

Becoming partners with your pain

Thinking of pain as the voice of something within you that wants to be healed

Creating a different relationship with pain

We lock pain in place when we get into a resistant mode

Giving pain a lot of space

Breathing into the pain

The messages that pain brought her

Asking pain, “What do you need?”

How her life has been transformed by changing her relationship and experience with chronic pain

That she wrote the book she wished she had been given in the midst of her struggle with pain

That being seen in your pain can be the beginning of healing

Living with chronic pain and what she imagined her pain looking like

Sarah Shockley Links:

thepaincompanion.com

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