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
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