Julie Hopkins Proven Pain Solutions - Chronic Pain & Nutrition Therapist.

27/11/2024

“Extensive research demonstrates that our expectations [around our health and wellbeing] can AND DO create changes in our physiology”

“Positive expectation has been shown to accelerate the cure of many physical conditions like asthma, Parkinson’s, heart disease and chronic pain…”

I strongly recommend⭐️⭐️this BBC podcast mini series by medical science journalist David Robson (whose latest book is of the same name - “The Expectation Effect”).

He talks about the placebo and nocebo effect which, traditionally inferred that a person must’ve not had a bona fide illness in the first place (ie it was ‘all in their head’🙄). Now we know it’s much more than that - the illness is real alright but, our positive or negative beliefs around our illness/wellness can actually create physiological changes which can either make us better… or not.

“The mindbody connection is real”🤩 Oh yes, it most certainly is!!

11/07/2023

13/04/2023

“You can not have pain without knowing it”
- Prof. Lorimer Moseley

Is that stating the bleedin’ obvious?!⬇️⬇️

Maybe…

If you live with chronic pain, do you ever find that, sometimes, every now and then, however fleeting… that it goes away, or it dies down. Perhaps when you had that really bad cold, or when you were super-stressed about something, or you were having just the best time, or on holiday, or were totally engrossed in a film …?

If we don’t feel pain, it’s because our brain simply isn’t producing pain. It’s not because you were distracted or had ‘more important things’ to think about, or you just ‘forgot’ for a moment because there was so much going on.

The sole purpose of pain, is to protect us (that’s science speaking, not me).
So, in the above examples, your brain decided that you didn’t need protecting and so elected not to produce pain. It made a choice; a decision.

This is one of many tell tale signs that you CAN absolutely influence the pain you’re experiencing, by re-educating your brain around how much protection [pain] you actually need on a day-to-day, ongoing basis 🤯🥳🙌🏼

16/10/2022

LIVING PROOF:
Such an uplifting, compelling, heart-warming, tear-jerker of a documentary about a wonderful fibromyalgia recovery story❤️💕

Around 12 mins to watch and worth every second.

Enjoy..... And please share with anyone you think may benefit🥰

Fiona lived with ME for 14 years, until finally discovering a route to recovery through science which taught her that her symptoms were caused by her brain a...

04/10/2022

For all the wonderful, life-saving discoveries of medical science, chronic pain and all of the various, baffling ‘chronic’ syndromes are on the rise.

It’s getting worse year on year. So what’s going on??🤔

In the event of a physical injury, the body will heal itself. Broadly speaking it takes the body approximately 6 to 8 weeks to heal major tissue damage. So why are sooo many of us (estimated at 20%+ of the UK population!) living with chronic, painful symptoms?

Physical pain is actually generated by the brain🧠, as a danger signal; like an alarm🆘. It’s designed to tell you (scream at you sometimes!) that you are not safe and need to take urgent action. We know now from a wealth of research, that physical pain (danger signal/alarm) can be caused not only from physical ailments but, also psychological ailments caused by chronic stress.
Stress might be:
▶lingering emotional traumas (big or small) from childhood
▶low self-esteem, angst and insecurities
▶unrelenting pressures, expectations and worries

Make no mistake that your pain; your symptoms are all REAL. Your pain is not ‘imagined’. It hurts; it can hurt so much it is hard to entertain the fact that there's no physical cause. The pain or symptom can be so debilitating and create so much misery by the limitations and restrictions they place on your life, relationships, dreams and aspirations.

BUT it need not be forever. It CAN be resolved and you CAN absolutely get your life back!🥳
I’ve done it, thousands of others have done it, and you can too!

This approach is an effective, powerful and long-lasting method of recovery and can be life changing for those who are open to the possibility of change and are prepared to do the work....

29/09/2022

So... Who am I to be advising you about chronic pain? Allow me to give you a little more context on that ▶️

I've spent my entire working life within the field of medicine and health. Starting out as a registered nurse working in Trauma Orthopaedics and Intensive Care before entering the world of medical underwriting spending many years talking with customers and patients about their health.

Medicine is amazing. It saves lives and is nothing short of miraculous - thank god for modern medicine... but, it's from those years of experience and training which has enable me to both appreciate it and also recognise it's limitations.

And so, over the years, I've acquired a passion for natural methods of treating the body and mind.

As such, I'm a registered Nutritional Therapist. I'm also SIRPA trained (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association); the training which enabled me to overcome my own chronic pain symptoms.

I'm currently in the midst of qualifying in Embodied Processing (trauma therapy) and booked in for my Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) training with the amazing Dr Schubiner; one of the leading experts in the chronic pain arena.

I've enjoyed getting great results working with my clients and would love to help you too.

If you’d like to have a chat and learn a bit more about what I do and how I do it, drop me a DM or let me know in the comments. No obligation, no pressure - just a chat😊