Introduction
“When the mind is in pain, the body cries.”
Your Healer Within is a resource for people with Chronic Pain and those who love them. Here you will learn about our uncommon approach to this all too common problem.
We believe that learning to see Chronic Pain as the call of a mind and soul in crisis is the first step to ending your suffering . Learning to release the negative thoughts, values and beliefs that brought you to this place in your life is the last. At Your Healer Within our mission is to help you begin this lifelong journey and to guide you along the way. I hope you will allow us to do so.
Kathleen Clohessy- Founder and CEO, Your Healer Within
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Chronic pain is a world-wide epidemic; nowhere is that more true than here in the Unied States. Startling statistics demonstrate that close to 100 million Americans live with some degree of chronic pain. Pain is the number one cause of disability-crippling more men and women than heart disease or cancer. It is estimated that chronic pain costs our nation between $60 and $90 billion dollars each year in lost productivity and disability payments. And while the impact on the health care system is immeasurable, the Center for Disease Control estimates that the cost of chronic back pain alone is over $25 billion dollars a year.
Most distressing of all is the fact that in the year 2001 the United States Congress named the ensuing ten years the “Decade of Pain Research and Control." Nevertheless, at the National Institute of Health, research into the cause and effects of chronic and acute pain has remained at a virtual standstill since additional funding for this initiative was deemed unnecessary by the current administration. While private research institutes are making progress towards a greater understanding of the physiology of chronic pain, its cause remains elusive. Most doctors are still limited to the same treatment regimens they have used for decades to treat chronic pain, which are shamefully inadequate in providing noticable relief to those who need it. Recent surveys have shown that 37% of all men and 46% of all women with arthritis experience daily, long-standing pain; that about 50% of cancer patients report inadequate pain relief; and that 56% of adults suffering from noncancer pain experienced pain for more than 5 years and that in 41% of these cases, the pain was described as being “out of control.”1
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If you suffer from Chronic Pain, whether it is fibromyalgia, chronic back pain, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, migraine headaches, or any of the other myriad conditions that cause constant, debilitating, disabling pain, your first step to healing is learning to see your pain as the cumulative effect of years of overwhelming, unrelenting suffering and stress. Letting go of your suffering and releasing yourself from the negative, self-defeating thoughts, values, habits and beliefs that brought you to this place in your life will be the last.
It is a life long journey. The person that resides in your broken body took a very long time to create; many hardships and defeats...many deep emotional wounds...many self-blaming thoughts and attitudes converged to form the person you are. There is no short-cut to healing.
At Your Healer Within our mission is to help you begin this journey and to provide you with guidance and support along the way. We offer you journaling tools, meditations and advice right here on our web site, as well as our unique individualized mentoring programs, where we can help you with specific issues you prefer to deal with in private discussions.
We are not doctors; we are not mental health professionals. We are people like you, living with Chronic Pain. All that separates us is the fact that we have found our path to healing and today we are leading fulfilled, productive, more joyful lives. Now we want to help you to do the same.
So, why not join us now and see for yourself what we are about...who we are, what we do, and-most important-how we can help you to find your personal path to healing. You will not regret it.
We guarantee it!