Wisdom from Wow!
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Sharing my Wow! Blog
Living my life of Wow! This year has been a wild ride! Last year at this time I was in Paris, France—my first time on “the continent” with no plans to move. Now I am sitting in my new home, in my new office surrounded by boxes and chaos . . . loving it. After more than a decade of...
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Speaker Amber Rose Dullea “Living Your Life of Wow!”
In this video Speaker Amber Rose Dullea shares “Living a Life of Wow!” Amber Rose Dullea is a humorous and motivational speaker. In her talk at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Florence she describes the Five Steps to Thriving with Pain and shares some of her story of how she has come to live a life of Wow and to coach others to...
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What is Thriving?!?
What Thriving looks like! Today the rest of our stuff will be unloaded into our new home on the Oregon Coast. It has been a long time dream to live on the coast. Today will be the realization of that dream as all of our things are brought in. (Right now some are still on the moving truck and the...
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Prince did not die from pain pills — he died from chronic pain
This is powerful stuff. The only thing I would add is that pain effects our brain and there are other tools as well to treat pain. It is an all the above approach with no stigma that we need. Prince did not die from pain pills — he died from chronic pain.
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In-Person Workshop in Hood River Oregon–Thriving with Pain– 5 steps from Ow to Wow
Has chronic pain shrunk your world and made work challenging? Have you tried to fix or ignore your pain without results? Are you ready to move forward, but are not always sure how? In this workshop you will learn about the 5 steps from Ow to Wow and . . . become an expert on yourself create a fuller life...
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Spring Storm
Spring Storm I have a love/hate relationship with spring. On one hand, I love the fact that the weather is turning warmer and flowers are appearing. On the other hand, I hate how my body responds to the doing and the allergens; itchy eyes, nuclear sneezes and itchy everything. I love working in my garden, getting my hands dirty as...
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What is this thing called pain anyway?
What is this thing called pain anyway? When we talk about pain, it is important to understand that it is a very individual experience and to remember WHY we experience pain. Pain is a signal that goes from the body to the brain and says something is not right. It hurts. How we interpret the hurt and our reactions to...
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Your Specialist
A word about Specialists When you go to a specialist, you are seeking help. You expect that their knowledge, expertise, and tools will be able to alleviate or at least treat what is hurting. At the same time, specialists tend to see you through the lens of their specialty. For most of us who live with pain, we have very...
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Everyday is a new day for choice!
Everyday is a new day! Everyday is an opportunity to make a choice. Am I thriver or a victim? What is my intention for today? How can I interrupt my cycle of pain today? What kind of day do I want to have? Am I going to suffer through it or take whatever opportunities to thrive? I believe we all...
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Support of a loved one
Support of a loved one takes many forms. Everyone who lives with chronic pain find different things most helpful. Sometimes they know what it is and sometimes not. Not only have I been living with chronic pain for over a decade but my spouse has chronic pain that we live with. Anyone who’s partner lives with chronic pain also lives...
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Lessons from an unlikely teacher!
Lessons from an unlikely insect on thriving. Yesterday I was on my roof cleaning the gutters. This alone is cause for celebration. I felt strong enough and steady enough to be doing it. What was so amazing was the vivid lesson about my reaction to pain that I received by an unlikely ally, a yellow jacket. I was cleaning out...
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Fire Walking | Mystery of Thriving with Pain
Pain is mysterious. What should hurt doesn’t always and what should be fine can hurt like heck! If you walk across fire, you get burned, right? What if I told you that there are ancient civilizations that passed along the secrets to their shamans and warriors so that they could walk on fire and not get burned? What if I...
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Discover the 5 essentials to pain relief and being more alive!
Discover the 5 essentials to pain relief and being more alive! Are you wanting to escape from your chronic pain? Do you also want to figure out the secret to living your life that’s beyond being a survivor? It could be you need to begin with mastering your pain! You know you want to get rid of the pain! But it’s also about the...
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Pain is Not your Fault
It’s not your fault. Let me say that again . . . Pain is not your fault. I don’t care if people or you say that you did something stupid, or that you don’t take good enough care of yourself. Pain comes in all forms and does not go away just because you do everything “right”. Pain is part of...
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Facing the dragon
It is the loneliness in the night when the pain keeps me awake that can be overwhelming. I tell myself I am, I am here. To get up in the morning can be scary; so much to lose and so much to gain. I live with pain. It is my companion; my monster under the bed; in the closet; in...
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TWP BlogTalk: Physical Therapy that Listens with Lindsy Palisca, PT
Physical Therapy can be a great modality to interupt the pain cycle and get support for moving again. If you live with chronic pain, it is imperitive that you find someone who will listen to you, educate, and find an approach that will work for you. Today we visit with Lindsy Palisca, PT who practices in Camas, Washington. One great...
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Thriving Story Radio Show: Barbara and a successful hip replacement
Gain hope from this story of determination, self awareness, and ultimate success! It is never easy to live with chronic pain. Barbara describes her journey of advocating for herself in a medical health system maze until she was able to get the intense pain she was having correctly looked at and diagnosed. Her determination, assertiveness, and courage shows how when faced...
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Radio Show: Meet Nicole Meyers Henderson
Nicole Meyers Henderson and C Amber Rose Dullea have a heartfelt dialogue about Nicole’s practice and how she helps people who live with chronic pain. We invite you to listen live or you can listen afterwards through the recording. The broadcast is live this Friday January 24th 2014 at 12pm PST (3 pm EST) Listen in at http://tobtr.com/s/5973459. or call...
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Treatment for chronic pain
The holiday season is winding down and we are coming up on a new year. One thing that most of us want is pain relief for ourselves or our loved ones. It can be even more difficult during the holidays to think about what is lost and to find the gratitude when pain is around so much. Finding and evaluating...
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5 steps from Ow to Wow! Radio show
Listen to the powerful, empowering steps to that are the basis of the coaching model and the Thriving with Pain Plan. Take your life back! An overview of the 5 steps are presented on the radio show: Thriving with Pain See the 5 steps here Here is the 5 steps from Ow to Wow Radio series. Each show is less than 30 minutes. Please...
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National Pain Report–RA link
The National Pain Report is a good resource for stories about research and from people who live with pain. This is a link to a story about new findings about bacteria in the digestive track causing Rheumatoid Arthritis. http://wp.me/p2KAHm-5NT Bacteria in the gut may be linked to RA. How will this effect your health decisions?
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Obama Care
First, how many of you do not have health insurance due to chronic pain? What do you think about Obama care? Please comment below! The news is reporting how horrible the roll out of the website(s) are. I know my website took longer than I thought 🙂 For me, as someone who coaches people with chronic pain to take...
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Newest Practitioner
Nicole Myers: Author, Medical Remote Viewer and Integrative Health Consultant Nicole Myers Henderson offers Cellular Memory Detoxification Therapy (CMDT) for pain and healing Encountering a life changing health issue can be devastating to anyone that lacks the resources to assess their situation, get acceptable medical attention, or even heal on their own. Speaking from experiences; in 2001 my own health...
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Hope for new answers for people with Fibromyalgia
New study discovers people with Fibromyalgia may have extremely excessive amounts of nerve fibers of veins called arteriole-venule shunts that now they understand to have a role in pain. To see the article go to: Guardian Article: Fibromyalgia Mystery finally solved http://guardianlv.com/2013/06/fibromyalgia-mystery-finally-solved Pain is a symptom–we who live with it have to tell others what we are feeling. We may have some...
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What you want! Some results from the survey. . .
Here are some of the results from the survey that some of you took. The first thing that you are looking for is pain relief at 82.9%. My hope is that through these steps some pain relief will happen. It has for me but I know it took years for me to have enough relief to notice. We all have different...
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Oregon Pain Management Commission–Sept 2012
A Message from the Coordinator Article Content Current Message September 2012 Self Management of Pain If you were unable to attend the September 13, 2012 Oregon Pain Management Commission Meeting, you missed a great opportunity. In honor of “Pain Awareness Month,” commission members conducted a special education workshop titled “Empowering the Patient through Self-Management of Pain.” OPMC...
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Got Pain?
When pain increases or a flare up happens for a chronic pain sufferer, it is easy to go into fear, overwhelm and depression. This is the time when remembering your support and passions are essential and can help you and I from getting pulled into the vortex of negativity and hopelessness. What is going on here? Is my first question. ...
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Thriving with out blame
Thriving with pain is about taking back your life from the cycle of pain. For some it means not experience chronic pain anymore and for others it means gaining quality of life and a measure of peace of mind in the midst of the pain. Pain is difficult subject for western medicine since it is subjective on the patients part. ...