What if you could thrive, not despite emotional and physical suffering, but because of it?
What if pain, depression, and disease weren't the enemy but the path to self-knowledge, purpose, and harmony? To becoming more alive, passionately engaged, and connected?
Such is the paradox of pain.
The Western world often ignores, denies, or insidiously punishes dis-ease because we equate it with weakness and a lack of control. Yet, frustration and pain are natural, cyclical, and purposeful, not cause for shame. Only by going through each cycle of discomfort, not avoiding it, do we master our spirits and energetic systems.
The Pain Paradox is the story of one practitioner of Integrated Chinese Medicine and her search for the root cause of her patients' puzzling maladies. She finds surprising links between long-term conditions, chronic ailments, catastrophic illnesses that resist resolution, and relationships in the present and past. Pain, she shows, is often an overriding mechanism that propels the sufferer to return to the scene of unfinished business within before healing can occur. Before a patient can become who they are meant to become.
Discovering what your mental, physical, and emotional body is showing you with dis-ease will allow you to transform your energy and bring you home to yourself.
Pain is not your enemy; there is no need to run.