Mindful Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain & Persistent Symptoms
Stop fighting yourself. Learn a different way to respond to pain and persistent symptoms.
Living with chronic pain can be exhausting—not just physically, but emotionally. You may find yourself frustrated with your body, anxious about symptoms, critical of yourself, or constantly trying to control, fix, or avoid what you're experiencing.
What if you could meet all of that with something different?
In this interactive 3-hour course, you'll learn practical Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) skills adapted specifically for people living with chronic pain and persistent symptoms.
This isn't about pretending your pain doesn't exist, thinking positively, or giving up on getting better.
It's about learning how to stop adding suffering to suffering.
What you'll learn
You'll learn and practice:
· Mindfulness skills for noticing pain, thoughts, emotions, and sensations without immediately getting pulled into them
· Self-compassion practices for responding to yourself with warmth rather than criticism
· How to recognize and interrupt self-critical thought patterns
· How to work with fear, frustration, anger, shame, and helplessness
· How to distinguish pain from the additional suffering that can come from struggling with pain
· Strategies for responding to symptom flares without automatically catastrophizing or becoming overwhelmed
· Ways to bring self-compassion into movement, activity, relationships, and everyday life
This course is for you if...
You're tired of being at war with your body.
You worry about what your symptoms mean, criticize yourself for having limitations, constantly monitor how you feel, or find yourself either pushing through symptoms or avoiding activities because you're afraid of making things worse.
You want practical tools for responding to difficult moments with greater calm, flexibility, and self-kindness.
This is not about accepting a life of pain.
Self-compassion is not resignation. It's a way of supporting yourself while you do hard things.
You can want your symptoms to improve and treat yourself kindly when they don't.
You can challenge yourself and recognize when you're struggling.
You can work toward recovery without making your worth depend on whether your body cooperates.
An experiential, practical course
This isn't a three-hour lecture. You'll learn the principles of mindful self-compassion, then practice them yourselfthrough guided exercises, reflection, discussion, and real-world application.
No previous meditation experience is necessary.
You don't need to be “good at mindfulness.”
Just bring yourself—and a willingness to try something different.