Recent content by plafield

I've had to give up trying to figure out the why and when of my pain. I have such a variance in severity and frequency of my very specific tailbone pain. It doesn't move around in location but it does change in quality. It definitely changes in severity, sometimes changing throughout a day...

Since I first learned about TMS and recognized that this is what is causing the coccydynia I've been suffering (and likely my past bouts with frozen shoulder, plantar facsaitis, and back pain) I've talked about it with anyone willing to listen. I have found that stating out loud that my pain is...

Outcome independence has been one of the most helpful things in my recovery. I'm just doing my life whether or not there's pain and some days I'm totally pain free and other days there's some pain, but I'm just choosing to not focus on if there's pain or not and just doing my life and I've had...

When I first found out about TMS and began to believe my coccydynia is TMS I had very quick 50% improvement in pain. Then, when I really began to believe it and started "Unlearn Your Pain" and the SEP program here I've had days where the pain was 95% better. I had a few small relapses that...

I was an avid journaler for over 30 years but about 8 years ago I really tapered off and almost stopped entirely. I had done many years of therapy and over 2 decades of 12 step recovery and I felt so much less interested in tracking my emotional life than I had been. I was writing a lot of...

The person in my life who I know I'm not expressing my emotion to is my brother-in-law. I'm angry and it runs deep. This bout of TMS (coccydynia) started just after my sister died; my brother-in-law has been a source of pain for everyone for their whole marriage (30 years!) He was terribly...

I have had chronic back pain for my whole adult life and after trying chiropractic for a year I gave up on the medical approach before I even knew about TMS and have just been ignoring it and doing my life for 35 years. I really believe that because I never gave it a lot of energy or felt afraid...

I'm pretty clear that my pain is mostly connected to fear and when I let myself notice and feel the fear it often transforms to sadness. If the fear is about the pain itself, if I just notice and label it as fear and remind myself there's nothing to be afraid of because there's nothing...

That's awesome! So glad my image helped!

Thanks Andy. There's been much progress and I'm very hopeful!

Fortunately, I have had an on and off mindfulness meditation practice for many years. I never want to do it but am always glad when I do. Today I did 10 minutes and it flew by. I find it really helps to label what kind of thoughts come up: "There's a thought about my pain." There's a thought...