Break Free from Chronic Pain: Self-Paced Course
Learn. Understand. Take an Active Role.
My five-hour, self-paced education course exploring chronic pain, modern pain science, acceptance, and active self-management strategies to help you move forward.
START THE COURSE →If you've been living with chronic pain, you've probably spent considerable time looking for answers — seeing healthcare professionals, having tests, trying treatments, and hoping the next intervention will finally make a difference.
This course offers another way to look at chronic pain. Rather than focusing only on finding something to fix, it explores pain science, acceptance, active self-management, and practical ways to build a meaningful life despite pain.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
You're Living With Persistent Pain
You've had pain for longer than expected or beyond the usual healing period.
You're Searching for Answers
You've seen multiple healthcare professionals and are still looking for a better understanding of your pain.
Treatments Haven't Been Enough
You've tried medications, injections, procedures, surgery, or other approaches without getting the improvement you hoped for.
Pain Is Affecting Your Life
Pain is limiting your activities, relationships, mood, confidence, or quality of life.
You Want to Understand Pain
You want to learn why pain can persist and how the nervous system and other factors can influence the experience of pain.
You're Ready to Take an Active Role
You're interested in learning skills and strategies rather than relying exclusively on passive treatments.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What pain is and why it can persist long after an injury or illness has healed.
- The difference between acute pain and persistent chronic pain.
- Why hurt doesn't always equal harm.
- How the nervous system, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, environment, and other factors can influence pain.
- Why a purely biomedical approach may not address every factor involved in persistent pain.
- How acceptance can change your relationship with pain without meaning that you are giving up.
- Why you don't necessarily have to eliminate pain before beginning to rebuild your life.
- Practical approaches to active self-management, pacing, confidence, and meaningful activity.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Five Hours of Education
Self-paced video education organized into seven chapters that build on one another.
Downloadable Resources
Supporting materials and chapter summaries to help you review and apply the concepts.
Evidence-Informed Education
Concepts drawn from modern pain science, pain rehabilitation, self-management, and related research.
Lived Experience
A practical perspective informed by years of living with chronic pain and experience in interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is organized into seven chapters. Each chapter builds on the previous one and moves from understanding pain toward acceptance, active self-management, and applying the concepts to everyday life.
WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Consider these questions:
- How much time have you spent searching for answers?
- How many treatments have you tried?
- Is pain keeping you from doing things that matter to you?
- Are you living the life you want?
- Are you ready to explore a more active approach to managing chronic pain?
WHAT YOU WON'T GET
- Medical advice. This course is educational and informational. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
- A guarantee that your pain will go away. Chronic pain is complex, and progress looks different for everyone.
- A quick fix. Meaningful change can require patience, practice, persistence, and an open mind.
- Individualized treatment. The course does not provide personal diagnoses, treatment plans, or individualized medical recommendations.
- A replacement for your healthcare team. The information can be discussed with and considered alongside your healthcare professionals.
Ready to Learn More?
Get five hours of self-paced education designed to help you better understand chronic pain and explore practical strategies for moving forward.
START THE COURSE →This is a self-paced educational course. No subscription or recurring fee is required. The course is best viewed on a computer or tablet.