The Importance of Making Your Brain Feel Safe

Fear is not just a byproduct of the pain, it can actually keep the pain going. It's your brain misinterpreting safe signals from your body as if they're dangerous. So when you have fear around the pain,. it just further reinforces to your brain, oh, this actually is dangerous and it keeps it going. That's how it becomes chronic. And we call this kind of pain neuroplastic pain. Neuroplastic pain is real pain. People have been dismissed, have heard people say, oh, it's all in your head. That is not what we are saying. This is real pain."