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I'm really happy that 6 months ago I was having 6 bad days of pain a week and just 1 good productive day, but after working through Curable and other mind body approach stuff that's been reversed. I now typically have 1 really bad day a week but 6 productive happy days
and by productive I don't mean just able to do work, which is part of it, but it's more just being able to do whatever I want to do rather than laying on the couch all day with an icepack as a pillow
And this is after living like that for 4+ years and trying ever Western medicine intervention known to humankind for migraine at this point. Every available preventative, physical & massage therapy, Botox injections, different diets, neurostimulation devices, the list goes on
and this doesn't mean the pain was "in my head" or my fault. It means that stress and emotions can cause very real physical symptoms, & some people have predispositions to develop that based on genes, adverse childhood events, & triggering adult stress.
Most doctors know this but most don't know how to treat it. My neurologist is just glad I found something that helps and that I'm doing better. The science is there, and he knows it. He just wasn't trained in how to treat it other than throwing medications & injections at it
Mind-Body approach consists of learning about pain science, lots of self compassion,
& then it can look like journaling about past & current stress & personality traits, meditation, somatic tracking, developing an attitude of indifference to the pain & eliminating fear around it
& then it can look like journaling about past & current stress & personality traits, meditation, somatic tracking, developing an attitude of indifference to the pain & eliminating fear around it
I had tried Curable in the past but hated the writing & was like this isn't for me. But after exhausting every preventative, being dependent on pain pills, realizing no physical interventions helped, I was desperate. I was like I'm really gonna try this again & I'm so glad I did
I still kinda hate the Curable writing & I don't even like their meditations/visualizations, but after learning about Nicole Sachs' "journalspeak" where you just rant about everything you hate, I started improving, along w/a YouTube visualization that helped me get off pain pills
still not great about meditating everyday, but one other thing that did make a huge difference was learning about and doing somatic tracking, where you just observe the body/painful sensations & emotions indifferently like an observer, & reassure yourself that you're fine, & safe
