On today's episode I chat with Susann Suprenant, Ph.D. Susann is a Level 1 Internal Family Systems practitioner and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner working with coaching clients in their recovery from chronic pain and other mindbody symptoms. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, is trained in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (Howard Shubiner, MD and Alan Gordon, LCSW) and facilitates mindbody support groups with Curable Health.

We talk about:

1. Benefits of getting curious about chronic symptoms as parts' protective strategies.

2. The Feldenkrais method

3. Polyvagal theory and 'Play as a Blended State'

I appreciated the experiential component Susann brings to the episode.

Susann introduced one of her mentors, Dr. Howard Shubiner to Dick which led them to co-author the following article entitled, "IFS and Chronic Pain: Listening to Parts who Hold the Hurt."

IFS and Chronic Pain (psychotherapynetworker.org)

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You can connect with Susann at www.creativesomatics.com or info@creativesomatics.com.

You can sign up for her mailing list to be notified of her upcoming online class beginning in January 2023, “Your Resilient Self: Creative Recovery from Chronic Mindbody Symptoms,” which explores pain reprocessing through the 8 C’s.

She refers to Curable- an app that can be found here:

Curable Groups: A 12-Week Healing Bootcamp for Chronic Pain Recovery (curablehealth.com)

And, a training site which can be found here:

OvidDx

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