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Join Dr Elizabeth Thompson to reflect upon our recent Integrative Healthcare Forum training day. Together you will explore a range of approaches within the Integrative Medicine model that might support people to live with their chronic pain more easily, discussing a diversity of approaches that might prove useful in chronic pain management, as well as groundbreaking neuro-science that could help patients and clinicians re-frame the nature of chronic pain.

We learn that when our attention is caught up in the past or in the future, we can get stuck in unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. Mindfulness helps us recognise these automatic reactions and understand them as part of normal human experience. This can allow kindness to replace self-criticism, as we would offer to others but rarely do for ourselves.