09Feb/20

Your body keeps the score

February 9, 2020Chronic pain, Pain, Pain Coachchronic pain, overcome pain, pain, Pain Coach, pain specialist, persistent pain, Wellnessrichmondstace

Your body keeps the score of every bump, bruise, emotion, thought, situation and trauma together with your genes. It’s one continuous story. It has take your whole life to get to where you are now. EverythingRead More…

02Feb/20

The practice of curiosity

February 2, 2020Pain Coachchronic pain, curiosity, Pain Coachrichmondstace

We are born curious. Then it is drilled out of us by social conditioning. To find it again and to practice curiosity is wonderful. ‘”I’m curious. Tell me more”, he said. This is an invitation. AnRead More…

27Nov/19

Encouraging physio students

November 27, 2019Chronic pain, Pain, Pain Coach, Pain Educationchronic pain, pain coaching, pain education, The Pain Coachrichmondstace

Encouraging physio students is not usually necessary. Their passion and purpose are both raw and visible. And I love tapping into it. Yesterday was no different as around 30 MSc and BSc physio students came along toRead More…

20Oct/19

Depression appears to affect brain structure

October 20, 2019Chronic pain, Depression, Painchronic pain, depression, neuroscience, painrichmondstace

The brain is different if you have depression, but are these changes caused by the condition or do they precede it? It seems now that depression appears to affect brain structure. Before looking at this, aRead More…

01Oct/19

Vulvodynia ~ a horribly painful condition

October 1, 2019Chronic pain, Pain, Pain Coach, Pain Education, Vulvodyniachronic pain, pain, pelvic pain, The Pain Coach, understand pain, vulvodyniarichmondstace

Vulvodynia is one of the most horribly painful conditions for a woman to suffer Imagine that your vulva is so sensitive that it is agonising to wear pants or tight clothing, to try to insert aRead More…

17Sep/19

You touched? No. We stroked…

September 17, 2019Business, Chronic pain, Neuroscience, Pain, Uncategorizedchronic pain, DisruptHR, pain, Pain Coach, relationships, touchrichmondstace

Don’t lose touch Touch is the perfected sense that plays a unique role in generating and maintaining the sense of self. In short, as humans we need touch. Yet in modern society we are losing touchRead More…

15Sep/19

Coaching for dystonia and functional disorders

September 15, 2019Cervical dystonia, Chronic pain, Dystonia, Movement disorders, Pain, UPCervical Dystonia, chronic pain, coaching, Dystonia, Pain Coachrichmondstace

Coaching people with dystonia to improve their lives This week I have been at the British Neurotoxin Network meeting in Oxford. This is the first time I have attended since I spoke about ‘non-motor factors’ aRead More…

07Aug/19

Professional football is an endurance event

August 7, 2019Athletes, Diet, Performance, Sport psychology, Sports medicinecoaching, endurance, football, footballer, leadership, Performance, teamrichmondstace

Endurance Sports associated with endurance typically require an individual to keep going for a long period of time over a long distance. You my thank of cycling in the Tour de France, ultrarunning of the UTMBRead More…

02Aug/19

A vital question to ask at interview

August 2, 2019Business, Leadership, Pain, Pain Coach, Pain Pointsbusiness, HR, interview, job, leadership, managementrichmondstace

A vital question to ask at interview If you interview people for positions in your business, what do you really want to know? What are your key questions that give the person you are interviewing theRead More…

29Jul/19

Going there takes courage

July 29, 2019Chronic pain, Pain, Pain Coachchronic pain, courage, leadership, Pain Coachrichmondstace

Going there takes courage, commitment and curiosity… …amongst other things. What am I talking about? Your pain points and what must happen to transform them and move on. Your pain points could be a painful problem,Read More…