Joanne Smith spent 16 years with chronic pain before realizing that how you describe symptoms matters. She argues flare-ups aren't setbacks but chances to practice recovery, and that reframing them as constructive cues rather than failures gradually reduces their intensity and frequency.
I want you to hear this stuff because this is what's got me out of over 16 years of misery. And I'm not going to go into details because, like I said, we want to be careful about how we describe what's happening and our situations, because again, that can be crucial as to whether or not things change, whether or not our nervous system decides, oh, we can let that one go now. Um, So please don't get upset if you have what people call flare-ups. I had so many, so, so many, so many, and they get easier and easier and easier. And every time you have one, it's an opportunity to actually do the things that are going to get you out of this sticky situation. So it's super exciting because actually there's no negative. There's nothing really that is gonna be a bad thing, if that makes sense. Even if you are having continued symptoms, it's kind of a good thing because it gives us something to do to get— it helps with recovery if you are having
