Is Past Trauma Leading to Chronic Pain with Deana Tsiapalis on The Healers Café

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Deana Tsiapalis about her experience in training people’s bodies to feel safe and relive pain.

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Deana Tsiapalis 02:48
There’s a real disbelief when they see someone who’s smiling and, you know, carrying on with life doing their best to carry on with life, that they’re fine, that they can get up and walk and why do they need that handicap parking spot? You know, there is that real uneducatedness about our society or unawareness from our society around chronic pain.

Deana Tsiapalis
Or is it because we now know that perhaps you experienced acute trauma or chronic trauma, when you were a child. Perhaps there is a lot of stress in your life currently, that is leading to more pain, perhaps you’re in a relationship that’s not as secure, perhaps, you know, financially, you’re struggling. I mean, there’s everything matters when it comes to chronic pain.

Manon Bolliger 11:31
If you start working as if the trauma wasn’t there, their body is not ready for it. You have to have therapies that address actually the trauma.

ABOUT DEANA TSIAPALIS:
Deana studied both Physical health, education and lifestyle management at the University of Toronto and George Brown College. She is also a certified Wellness coach through the American College Of Sports Medicine. Deana is the founder, the head pain coach, and chief curator at Pain 2 Possibilities and the Change Pain Academy. She also is the host of The Chronic Pain Experience; podcast that focuses on conversations about chronic pain management, the chronic pain experience and interviews with experts to inspire, motivate and improve your lived experience with pain.

After watching her mothers lived experience with undiagnosed ADHD, post polio syndrome and celiacs disease & which resulted in an early death; along with her husbands experience of living much of his early years with an undiagnosed rare metabolic disorder Deana grew to understand the challenges of those who live with invisible chronic conditions….being misunderstood, not believed, labelled as slow or lazy, being told that everything ‘looks fine’ after testing….that what they experience on a daily basis must all be in their head. As a pain coach, Deana along with the chronic pain community, witness first hand how chronic pain care is truly broken.

Through all of this Deana has learned that all chronic health, all chronic pain is indeed biological, psychological and social in nature and this is just not being shared with the chronic pain community….even though there is 12 years of solid research to back it up. So she got to work and created a unique space exclusively for the chronic pain community to bridge the gap between physician care and the pain warrior with self care management through pain education, coaching, community and peer mentorship. Exactly the sort of model she wished she could find when her parents and husband needed guidance.

Core purpose/passion: My mission is to help those who suffer with chronic pain learn to manage pain beyond the procedures and medications. I provide coaching, support and mentorship as well as teaching advanced self-care management techniques to help the chronic pain community regain control and improve their quality of life.

ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT
As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.

My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books: ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’. I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.

So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”.

Mission: A Healer in Every Household!

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* De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!