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Chronic Pain and Chronic Migraine
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A Step-by-Step Process to Overcome Chronic Pain and Health Syndromes, such as Tension and Migraine Headaches, Facial Pain Post Viral Illness and Fibromyalgia, at an accessible cost.
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Have you been struggling with problems related to chronic pain or any other medically unexplained symptom for a long time?
I'm in Pain, and I Don't Know Why!
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Did you know that stress, emotional factors, memories, beliefs and expectations can generate illness, physical pain, and symptoms in the body? I didn't, and I spent years suffering because of it.
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The brain can learn to habitually create pain and physical symptoms in response to stress and emotional states, and these symptoms persist due to certain habits, behaviours, and beliefs. Over time, the brain's heightened pain-signalling system becomes oversensitive and trigger-happy.
The result is Chronic pain. ​
This doesn't mean that the pain is any less real – All pain is real.
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My brain is Oversensitive & trigger-happy! What can I do about it?
The brain can learn to create pain and symptoms but, thankfully, it can learn to calm down and switch them off too. My mentoring program is for people who've developed neuroplastic pain and want to learn how to apply pain reprocessing techniques to reverse the pain response, regulate their emotions, reduce stress, and nurture a peaceful connection with their body.
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The Mission: To Help as Many People as Possible Recover from Chronic Pain and Improve Quality of Life, at an Accessible Cost.
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Click on numbered tabs below to read more about Neuroplastic Pain and how it may relate to you.
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Join The Growing Number of Recovery Stories Following My Program
“This work Ali teaches has been life-changing. I had debilitating migraines, lost my job and personal identity. I went from bedbound 4 days a week to migraine-free, and life has never felt better." J - UK
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My role as a coach and mentor stemmed from my own battle with developmental trauma, emotional dysregulation and chronic pain,
further enriched by the experiences of those I aided on their recovery journeys.
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Choose to work 1:1 with me as your private mentor or join a Safe Room group carefully curated by me and a dedicated in-group team of knowledgeable volunteers. Their insights from their own recovery journeys greatly enrich and transform the process. Alternatively, choose a combination of both options.
Original Safe Room Group Members Join Me as Volunteers to Help Achieve Our Mission.
New 1:1 intake running all year round. New group intake running on an annual basis The recovery program is conducted on Signal, a free, encrypted private messaging app, or on Facebook, in private groups.
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"As a person who has gone through the Safe Room group program, I can’t speak highly enough of Ali. She is incredibly compassionate, non-judgmental, and is an amazing communicator. I recommend this program wholeheartedly. Ali has structured the program to be robust and full of hope and substance." C- AUS
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Conditions Commonly Associated with Neuroplastic Pain and Stress Disorders:
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Migraine & Tension Headaches, TMJ, Facial pain, Fibromyalgia, Fatigue, Post Viral illness, Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain, Numbness, Tingling sensations, Palpitations, Heartburn, Acid Reflux, Abdominal Pain, IBS, Irritable bladder syndrome, Pelvic pain and Vulvodynia, Tinnitus and Dizziness, Unexplained itching/Rashes, Highly Sensitive Person traits (HSP), Insomnia, Brain Fog, Poor Memory, Anxiety, and Depression.This list is by no means exhaustive.
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​Survival Brain - Fight, Flight, FreezeSurvival Brain - Fight, Flight, Freeze People tend to downplay life experiences, overlooking the vulnerability of the brain to stress, especially in childhood. Stress can cause emotional dysregulation and fundamentally alter the brain, transforming it into a Survival Brain. A Survival Brain is Hyper-Vigilant all the time. People in survival mode increase their risk for developing mind-body symptoms, as both the brain and body must constantly work overtime to achieve feelings of safety, resulting in physical and mental exhaustion. Complex Trauma While most are familiar with PTSD (obvious traumatic events such as an accident), C-PTSD (Complex and Developmental Trauma) is often overlooked because the experiences either occurred early in life, aren't recalled, or feel insignificant. Most people with neuroplastic pain have experienced some degree of early life adversity, such as loss, neglect, ostracisation or grief, and upon reflection, realise that at some point in their lives a crucial relationship didn't feel entirely safe.
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Why have I become so sensitive?Emotional & Physical Pain Are Almost The Same - To Your Brain Neuroimaging reveals that the brain activates the same regions when experiencing emotional pain as it does with physical pain. Understanding Somatic Symptoms Physical symptoms of emotional distress are called somatic symptoms. Most people relate to somatic symptoms in examples like butterflies in the stomach or a racing heart when nervous. However, for some, dysregulation/ineffective emotional processing causes physical changes and sensitization in neurons responsible for sensing pain. Through conditioning, complex physical symptoms develop in response to certain emotional triggers. Over time, this becomes habitual and “how your brain works", posing a challenge to break. Examples include routine migraine headaches or pain elsewhere on certain days of the week/important dates in the year or predicting that certain activities will result in pain. Pain reprocessing therapy intervenes to disrupt this cycle.
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Adaptations to Find Safety - Personality TraitsInsecurity in fundamental relationships leads to the development of certain personality traits and adaptations in behaviour to find safety. Here's a list of personality traits associated with chronic pain disorders: Perfectionism, People Pleasing, Legalist, Stoic, Anxiety, Depression and Fear, Low Self-Esteem, Hostility, Aggression, Dependency. These traits are often in cahoots with repressed emotions and can provoke physical symptoms. They stem from the disappointment of unmet needs and are restrictive in nature. They alter behaviour and how you relate to others. You may believe these traits help you cope and manage your relationships short-term, but long-term they backfire, creating distress and conflict. These traits become integrated into who you think you are and keep you stuck unless their usefulness is challenged. Click here to find out more https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/TMS_Personality_Traits
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From Surviving to Thriving!One pivotal day, I discovered that my poor health might be a nervous system disorder caused by chronic stress. For the first time in years, I felt hopeful that nothing was irreversibly wrong with me. The work began, and 8 weeks later, many chronic symptoms had reduced or disappeared simply because my thoughts had changed about what the symptoms meant. Such rapid improvements shed light on the power my thoughts and beliefs had over my experience and perception of pain. Despite the virtual nature and the loneliness of using an app for chronic pain recovery, I witnessed remarkable progress. Many chronic symptoms faded away. While improvements in migraine headaches took more time, within a year, the frequency plummeted from two migraines a month to just four a year. They were no longer chronic and diminished further with each passing year. Inspired by this transformative experience, I envisioned creating a more personal solution, one that was both affordable and deeply impactful. The Chronic Pain and Chronic Migraine Recovery Program was the result.
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Some of My StoryI was 21 when I started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed my life. Three decades later, multiple diagnoses of generalised anxiety disorder, tension and migraine headaches, back, neck, face and jaw pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, IBS, and post-viral illness, and one sole purpose - Survival. The fun had been sucked out of life, and I felt scared, broken, and hopeless.
I'm Ali, a Chronic Pain & Traumatic Stress Recovery Coach, with a focus on recovery from chronic pain syndromes, stress, and stress-related illness. I have attained a postgraduate certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from the Trauma Research Foundation, and I follow the Mind-body approach to reprocessing neuroplastic pain (Pain Reprocessing Therapy).
Neuroplastic pain is also called: TMS, Neural Pathway Pain, Nociplastic Pain, Mind Body Syndrome, PPD (Psychophysiological Disorder), Neural Circuit Pain, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Central Sensitization and Stress Illness.
Neuroplastic Pain, (Tension Myositis Syndrome-TMS)
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Neuroplastic Pain, commonly referred to as TMS, is a common condition that causes real physical symptoms which aren't due to pathological or structural abnormalities and aren't explained by diagnostic tests.
TMS symptoms are caused by psychological and emotional distress, physical tension, immune dysfunction, and nervous system dysregulation and exhaustion.
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For more in-depth information please click on the link below.
An Introduction To Tension Myositis Syndrome.
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" Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Quote by Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher and author.
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