Thrive Despite Chronic Pain
Episode 2 season 6: Tawny Kross on Living with Chronic Pain
If chronic pain, inflammation and stress are holding you back, listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes chronic pain specialist and coach Dr. Tawny Kross for a discussion on healing body and soul.
“When your limbic system is overactive…, you want to be able to show your system how to find safety.”
Show Notes:
Living with chronic pain can be a challenge for anyone, but if you’re a highly sensitive person, you feel things even more intensely. Pain can be debilitating—and both frustrating and emotionally draining when you can’t seem to find relief. The good news is, you don’t have to suffer. In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a mid-life women’s coach, welcomes physical therapist Dr. Tawny Kross, founder of Ready, Set, Rewire (RSR), a program designed to take women with chronic stress, pain and inflammation out of survival mode so they can thrive and live an active lifestyle they love. Listen in on their discussion of the nervous system, the body and how a holistic view might help you manage pain.
Listen and learn:
How many people experience chronic pain and why highly sensitive people might be more susceptible
Why focusing on physical symptoms in isolation often doesn’t lead to healing
How physical and emotional pain are connected in the nervous system
Which part of the brain we need to activate to show our system how to find safety when our fight/flight/freeze response is overactive
Why physical therapy might be underused as a tool to manage chronic pain
Why it’s important to find a therapist with a background in the latest pain science—and how to find one
Why healing chronic pain takes patience—and sometimes a willingness to look deeper
How being attuned to what our body is trying to tell us can help us heal—and keep us from overreacting to every sensation
How picturing yourself in motion can help the body heal
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Learn More:
About Dr. Tawny Kross
Dr. Tawny Kross on Instagram (DM with “HSP” for a free body-mind awareness meditation)
Download Not Just Another Pain Recovery Guide by Dr. Tawny Kross
Biz’s Guided meditations on Insight Timer
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Daniela Paolone on Chronic Illness and Pain
Resources mentioned in this episode
Download Not Just Another Pain Recovery Guide by Dr. Tawny Kross
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