Do any of the following statements resonate with you?

“I kept getting physio, acupuncture, and massage. But it wouldn’t go away.”

“You go to physio, you feel a bit better, you think you’re on the mend, you start doing stuff, and then the pain just comes back full force.”

“Nothing was helping. It was a little depressing.”

If yes, I’ll recommend that you SAVE this blog post. Because if you are sick and tired of being in chronic pain (like so many folks who have struggled for months, years, even decades, and have now found me and this work), and you want more than just temporary or partial relief, then you will need to learn:

a.) the real root cause and true nature of pain
b.) how to work with pain more intelligently, via (you guessed it) the autonomic nervous system. 

And below, you’ll find a comprehensive collection of KEY info and resources addressing the many, many permutations of pain that are increasingly plaguing us humans* today, such as:

  • Sciatica
  • Low back pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Migraine & headaches
  • Nerve pain
  • Inflammatory pain
  • Cancer-related pain
  • Endometriosis & Adenomyosis
  • Menstrual pain
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Neck pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • So-called ‘psychogenic’ pain
  • Trigeminal & peripheral neuralgia
  • Chronic primary pain
  • Arthritis & joint pain
  • Osteoporosis
  • Spondylosis
  • Chronic pain syndrome (CPS)
  • The list goes on, but you get the picture… 

*By any measure, pain is an enormous global health problem, with estimates suggesting that 20% of adults suffer from pain and 10% are newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year. (1.)

As one of my mentors, Peter Levine, would often say, “Pain is trapped sensation.” And what this means is to work with pain intelligently and heal it and move it out of our bodies, we need to get really good at working with our bodily sensations. To learn how, watch my recent vlog on pain:

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Additional Resources:

Top 3 Reasons Back Pain Never Goes Away series:

https://irenelyon.com/2013/02/25/the-3-top-reasons-back-pain-never-goes-away-reason-1-being-stuck-in-a-functional-freeze-pattern/

https://irenelyon.com/2013/02/23/the-3-top-reasons-back-pain-never-goes-away-reason-2-posture-rules-and-trying-to-be-straight/

https://irenelyon.com/2013/02/21/back-pain-never-goes-away-reason-3/

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How to Avoid Hurting Yourself Again series:

https://irenelyon.com/2012/10/18/how-to-avoid-hurting-yourself-again/

https://irenelyon.com/2012/10/27/how-to-avoid-hurting-yourself-again-part-2-of-2/

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Free audio exercise:

https://irenelyon.com/2013/03/16/got-tight-hamstrings-try-this-new-audio-lesson-ive-made-just-for-this/

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Free guide (includes neurosensory exercises):

https://irenelyon.com/pain-free-and-potent/ 

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General pain-related vlogs & blogs:

https://irenelyon.com/2012/03/01/sick-and-tired-of-being-in-chronic-pain-a-success-story-from-the-archives/

https://irenelyon.com/2012/09/29/what-kind-of-living-would-you-rather-have-pain-free-and-easy-or-heavy-and-sluggish/

https://irenelyon.com/2016/02/05/why-post-traumatic-stress-and-chronic-pain-lands-in-some-people-and-not-others/

https://irenelyon.com/2011/08/02/achy-back-and-knees-why-getting-more-flexibility-and-smartness-in-those-ankles-will-help-ease-the-ache-trust-me-on-this-one/

https://irenelyon.com/2011/07/25/lower-back-love-what-exactly-is-lower-back-love-anyways-why-the-picture-of-the-bull-fighter/

https://irenelyon.com/2013/03/23/what-saving-your-knee-joints-and-saving-the-world-have-in-common/ 

https://irenelyon.com/2011/06/23/lessons-from-a-stubbed-toe-accident-trauma-first-aid/

https://irenelyon.com/2012/08/14/the-secret-to-avoiding-knee-replacement-and-the-arthritis-that-usually-goes-with-it/

https://irenelyon.com/2012/02/06/get-rid-of-hamstring-strains-and-lower-back-pains-the-non-stretching-way/ 

https://irenelyon.com/2012/07/05/want-pain-free-movement-all-you-need-is-a-few-hours-and-some-applied-practice-an-amazing-story-from-my-practice/ 

https://irenelyon.com/2011/06/28/got-tight-achy-and-cranky-hips-and-why-its-not-the-glute-meds-effin-fault/ 

https://irenelyon.com/2013/02/06/ditch-the-stretching-and-pilates-just-copy-the-kids/ 

https://irenelyon.com/2021/04/11/why-body-tension-can-increase-when-healing-trauma/

https://irenelyon.com/2012/01/16/aging-and-posture-is-it-simply-a-function-of-function-heres-a-great-example-that-would-say-oh-yah/

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Guest Interview:

https://irenelyon.com/guest-appearances/trauma-rewiring-the-nervous-system-to-overcome-ic-chronic-pain-heal-for-good-with-irene-lyon-the-evolving-wellness-podcast-with-sarah-kleiner/ 

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Elisabeth’s 21D success story:

https://irenelyon.com/2022/07/31/too-young-to-be-in-so-much-pain-resharing-a-powerful-healing-story/

https://irenelyon.com/2021/11/21/my-baseline-pain-scale-is-now-zero-the-power-of-starting-learning-healing/

https://irenelyon.com/2023/08/13/will-this-heal-my-xyz-3-year-update-from-21-day-student-elisabeth/ 

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Jayne’s SBSM success story:

https://irenelyon.com/2019/03/19/jaynes-story-healing-fibromyalgia-and-finding-love/