298: Sarah Shockley on Living with Chronic Pain

<p>Sarah Shockley is a multiple award-winning producer and director of educational films including&nbsp;<em>Dancing From the Inside Out</em>, a highly acclaimed documentary on disabled dance. Sarah is the author of a number of books on living with chronic pain, including the one discussed in this episode,&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2O6yC4c" target="_blank"><em>The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain.</em></a></p><p><a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/2019" target="_blank">Need help with completing your goals in 2019?&nbsp;The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year.</a></p><p>But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed.&nbsp;<a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support" target="_blank">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month.&nbsp;</a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p><p><strong>In This Interview, Sarah Shockley and I Discuss Living with Chronic Pain and…</strong></p><ul><li>Her book,&nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2O6yC4c" target="_blank">The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain</a></li><li>How it’s hard for us to heal when we’re in a battle with pain</li><li>The good wolf aspect of pain</li><li>Feeding into healing vs feeding in living with chronic pain</li><li>Her experience with debilitating pain</li><li>The many components of chronic pain – in addition to the physical component</li><li>How isolating chronic pain can be&nbsp;</li><li>Chronic emotional pain</li><li>Seeing pain differently</li><li>Turning towards pain and asking it, “What could positively be your positive purpose here?”</li><li>What you resist persists</li><li>Becoming partners with your pain</li><li>Thinking of pain as the voice of something within you that wants to be healed</li><li>Creating a different relationship with pain</li><li>We lock