CONDITIONS THAT PAIN REPROCESSING THERAPY (PRT) CAN HELP WITH:

• Migraine & Headaches
• Fibromyalgia
• Back Pain & Sciatic Pain
• Neck Pain
• Chronic Fatigue
• Insomnia
• CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)
• TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint) Pain
• TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome)
• Tinnitus
• Myofascial Pain Syndrome
• Tics

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Misophonia
• Brain Fog, Memory Difficulties
• Panic Attacks
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Vertigo
• Urinary Urgency
• SIBO
• Chronic Joint Pain
• Chronic Tendonitis
• Long Covid
• Foot Pain Syndrome

• Hypersensitivity to touch, sound, smell, light, foods or medications
• Chronic Eczema, Hives, or Itching
• MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome)
• MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)
• Chronic Lyme Disease
• EMF Sensitivity
• POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome)
• Raynaud’s phenomena
• Irritable Bowel
• Pelvic Pain

If you don’t see your concern on the above list, please reach out to Mimi to see if she can help you.

The body has an innate intelligence, and the natural ability to heal. When an injury or illness occurs, the threat-response kicks in and the brain sends signals of pain or other symptoms as a form of protection to get us to slow down and take care of ourselves while healing takes place. Many conditions resolve within 3-6 months, however sometimes the threat response remains activated, and the brain’s signals for pain or other symptoms get stuck in a loop, causing them to become chronic long after their original purpose has been served and physical healing has taken place. Pain Reprocessing Therapy (which could just as easily have been named Symptom Reprocessing Therapy), is a relatively new model designed to retrain the brain, calm the nervous system, and help us recover our health and well-being.

Sometimes when people have experienced previous trauma in life, even if there were no prior pain or health issues, sometimes and perceived threat such as an injury, illness, or even emotional abuse (such as narcissistic abuse), or environmental assaults (such as mold exposure) can be the catalyst that pulls the trigger on an already loaded gun, causing pain or other symptoms to become chronic.

Even with no prior trauma, the brain can get stuck in a pain or symptom generating loop. All pain is generated by the brain, even when the cause is physical or structural in nature. You may have heard of soldiers in battle who were injured but carried on with no pain until later, when it was safe to actually feel it. Or phantom limb syndrome, where pain is experienced in an area of the body that no longer exists. While we are evolutionarily conditioned to associate pain with physical injury, these examples show how that is not always the case.

Most pain that lasts longer than the normal course of healing time is neuroplastic in nature, meaning the brain has the ability to change and adapt, and the pain is able to be resolved. Even when diagnostic imagining shows things like bulging discs and osteoarthritis; studies show that 64% of people with no back pain have these types of findings as well (this number increases with age), and up to 85% of chronic pain conditions are neuroplastic in nature, meaning they can be resolved with a mind-body approach. In a recent study (the Boulder Back Pain study), 98% of people experienced improvement with PRT, and 73% were pain free or nearly pain free at the end of treatment.

There is a story of a little girl who asks her mother “Why do you cut the ends of the pot roast?” “I don’t know, that’s just how my mother did it, so let’s ask her.” The go to grandma’s house and ask her, to which she replies “I don’t know, because my mother always did.” So they visit great-grandma. and she says “Because my oven was too small and the whole roast didn’t fit in the pan!”. We learn to do things for one reason, but often carry on long past the relevance of that reason. Similarly, our brain can generate pain originally because of an injury, but then keep doing it long after the original reason is gone. The purpose is to protect us, but sometimes we have to retrain our brain when the pain is no longer serving us.

Sometimes the brain can get stuck in a loop, and in other cases a traumatic emotional event can manifest as pain or a symptom in the body. Even a perceived injury can be the cause, or the pain can appear with a gradual onset. The body is an expression of the subconscious mind, and so we can also work with dreams as part of a mind-body approach towards physical healing.