From Pain to Empowered
Transformative Tools For Men Navigating Chronic Pain Recovery
Wednesdays, March 20th-April 17th, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm US Central time
Live via Zoom
Registration deadline March 15th, 2024
With Mike Williams
Certified Hakomi Practitioner (CHP) through the Hakomi Institute
Certified Pain Reprocessing Therapist
Certified Rolfer®
Does chronic pain make you feel like you’re disconnected from important things like work, hobbies, and socializing?
Do you feel like people are sympathetic but don’t quite understand what you’re going through?
Do you feel like you’ve tried everything but just can’t figure out how to unlock your pain?
It’s not just you. It’s 1 in every 5 men in the US, literally 23.5 million of us.
Chronic pain defines our lives, limits what we can do, and perhaps most importantly, limits what we think we can do.
Recent advances in neuroscience are redefining what we know about chronic pain though. We now know that pain does not necessarily mean that our bodies are broken, or that something is dangerously wrong with us. Pain, in fact, is a complex biological, psychological, and social phenomenon that lives in our nervous systems.
When you learn the basic elements of how your nervous system has constructed your pain, along with some simple tools to take the fuel out of those inputs, you can begin to steadily retrain your brain to return to its normal settings. To turn the tide against chronic pain.
In this 5-week pilot program we’ll be doing just that: deconstructing and simplifying the inputs that go into chronic pain, and practicing simple Pain Reprocessing Therapy tools to take the fuel (and guesswork) out of the pain experience. To do this, we’ll:
Tap into the latest neuroscience to understand how pain is constructed in your brain. If you change your thinking you can change your pain.
Identify your specific triggers so that you stop (unknowingly) perpetuating the pain cycle.
Practice simple mindfulness exercises to turn down the volume on your pain.
Learn alongside a solid crew of 5-10 men who are all in the same boat, and understand what it is you’re going through.
Pain has a pretty straightforward set of inputs. In this pilot program you’ll learn the four main pillars of pain that you can address to turn your pain around.
We’ll explore leading-edge pain science that covers:
How simple mindfulness practices measurably turn the volume down on pain.
How thinking that your body is broken (or that something must need to be fixed), makes your pain worse.
How your brain constructs your reality by making predictions based on past experiences, and that it can start to predict in advance what will be painful, which can result in pain (even if the experience isn’t painful).
How stress (even good stress) makes your pain worse.
Importantly, this is not a pain therapy or support group. Pain sucks, it’s hard, and sharing those hard times will be welcome here. And, this is a group focused on moving you from being in pain to feeling empowered by giving you new tools to change your relationship to your pain and your experience of it.
This group is for you no matter where you are on your pain journey. You could be just getting started and looking for ways to bring resolution to your pain, or you could be well-along on your journey and ready to refine or learn new skills and tools with a group of men on a similar path.
Why is this pilot program for men only?
Simple – because we men tend to “John Wayne” it when we’re in pain, get stoic, and go it alone. As if we’re the only people that have ever had to do this before. And guess what, going it alone makes pain worse. Instead of that, let’s put our heads together and do this as a team.
Stay tuned for future women’s and co-ed groups. Email me to join the waitlist.
Details:
This pilot program will take place over 5 weeks, Wednesdays from March 20th, 2024 through April 17th, 2024.
Your program includes five weekly, 90-minute group sessions via Zoom from 7:00pm-8:30pm Central time.
Consistent attendance creates a strong community where we can do our best work together. My ask is that you commit to attending a minimum of 4 of the 5 sessions. If you can’t commit to this schedule, this isn’t the right time for you.
Investment: $350 (this is a pilot program, take advantage of this pricing now!)
Registration deadline is Friday, March 15th at 5pm US Central time.
***Important! This group requires a minimum of 5 participants to make. If you’re interested, please sign up early to help ensure that this goes. If you know someone who might be interested, please forward this information along, or have them email me at evolve@somamike.com. Thank you!
Next Steps:
Excited to find empowerment in the face of chronic pain?
Do you have questions or need help determining if this pilot program is the right fit for you? Email me to connect.
Let’s do this!