Navigating Chronic Illness: Finding Peace Within Pain
Mindfulness, Psychology, and Nervous System Healing for Chronic Illness, Pain, Rare Diseases, and Trauma
Living well with chronic illness means more than medical treatment. It asks us to learn how to face uncertainty, to grieve what has been lost, and to slowly find peace within a body facing persistent pain, illness, fatigue, and trauma.
Many people living with chronic illness carry invisible burdens: persistent pain, unrelenting fatigue, medical trauma, and the quiet grief of what has changed and what has been lost. A sense of identity and purpose. A sense of the life that once felt possible.
Healing requires emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, and compassion for a body that might feel like it has betrayed you, a body that stays frozen in a state of alarm, a body that is facing unbearable pain or continued bouts of illness, a body that no longer works like it used to.
This space was created for people navigating the complex realities of chronic illness, rare or misunderstood conditions, and a medical system that can often feel difficult. The practices and insights can help support the nervous system, helping the body move out of overwhelm and into greater safety, ease, and healing.
As a clinical psychologist who has lived experience of the invisible suffering of chronic illness, this page offers a safe place to feel supported, to find ease, to reset the nervous system, and to finally find peace, ease, and renewed meaning and purpose. Here you will find a combination of trusted psychological insights, mindfulness practices tailored to chronic pain and illness, and support for the unique challenges you face.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS
Chronically Mindful
NEW Peace within Pain Group: 75 min, $35
Starting in May
Chronically Mindful Coaching: Virtual Sessions for Those Living with Chronic Illness or Chronic Pain
Each session blends mindfulness training, nervous system regulation, and evidence-based strategies for coping with chronic illness and pain. In a safe, compassionate space, you will learn ways to integrate these tools into daily life. Whether you are newly navigating health challenges or seeking a deeper way to live well within them, Chronically Mindful Coaching is here to support you wherever you are!
Living with chronic illness or persistent pain can make each day feel like a battle between body, mind, and identity. It’s exhausting and I see you! Chronically Mindful Coaching invites you to come as you are and learn ways to soften, expand beyond, and cope with pain and illness symptoms. It is not about ignoring illness and pain; there is far too much need for people to do that in everyday life! It is about learning specific mindfulness practices, evidence-based tools, psychological insights to ease illness and pain, learn self-compassion, and live a life of values and purpose!
Grounded in decades of psychological practice and personal experience, these sessions offer a compassionate space to:
Learn to witness illness and pain without becoming it….A space of ease!
Use psychological tools to calm the nervous system
Rebuild a sense of identity and a life of values and purpose