by Steve Haines | Aug 14, 2024 | Pain
An old client of mine has written a book, ‘Leading Beyond the Numbers’, for business people on feeling. She wonderfully, and generously, describes some learning from a set of sessions we did together, in this extract from the book, below: “I still remember my... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 14, 2024 | Pain
Here’s a big question for you: if you have pain in your big toe, is your pain in your big toe? Or is your pain inside of you? We used to always think that the pain was in the big toe. That the issue was in the tissues. And that’s useful to some extent –... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 12, 2024 | Pain
We used to think that pain was just about the tissues; we focused on operations, we focused on aligning things. But we now know that a huge contribution to our pain experiences is the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories we’re given by other people. The modern... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 3, 2024 | Pain
I want to explore a very powerful notion with you – that pain can be like a bad habit. At one stage the reflex to withdraw, to rest, to protect yourself from a difficult stimulus is important. For example, if you twist your ankle, you do need to rest and... by Steve Haines | Mar 28, 2024 | Pain, TRE
This article was written by Sylvia Benoist. (Note from Steve: Sylvia recently completed her training as a TRE – Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises – supervisor (mentor with me), and I asked her to share her journey with TRE and Ankylosing Spondylitis,... 
by Steve Haines | May 18, 2023 | Anxiety, Pain, TRE
There is a lot of pain around: In a huge study (Breivik et al 2006) across 15 European countries, 19% of people reported living with moderate to severe pain for more than 6 months. That’s 1 in 5 people in persistent pain states, the majority for many years. Holy moly....
