For Educators

Most of what I teach fits inside the time you're already losing to symptom management, because it gradually replaces the managing rather than stacking on top of it.

When the brain concludes you're in danger, producing pain is one of its favorite ways to protect you.

Another June has arrived. Ron sits at his desk at 4:30 in the afternoon with a stack of final essay exams that needs his attention, but his mind is elsewhere. Specifically, on his right shoulder. Since returning from winter break, it’s been barking at him every time he’s at the front of the room, writing something on the board. And at this point in the school year, the pain is traveling up the side of his neck and even down his upper arm. That pattern has been around for thre

It's 3:15 on a Thursday. The last student just walked out, and your brain instantly starts calculating: how many hours until you can lie down? You’ve had a kink in your neck since second period. Your low back chimed in around lunchtime. By the time you made it through parent emails and the staff meeting that ran 20 minutes long, the tension travelled up into your shoulders and took up residence. Those aches and pains have been around for a while, and they’ve become all too fa