Online: Outsmart Your Pain – Mindfulness Tools for Chronic Pain
with Dr. Christiane Wolf
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
One in three to one in five Americans are suffering from chronic pain. Despite surgery and powerful medications often the pain can not be kept in check – or healed. And pain medications come with side effects, including addiction to opioids.
Mindfulness helps us to turn towards what is already here (painful or not) and act in the most kind and wisest way possible in that moment. Consistent mindfulness practices have been shown to be supportive in many different ways: they help us move away from painful stories, appreciate what we have and what is beautiful more, they make us realize that we are not defined by our pain and they lower our overall reaction to potentially stressful things in our lives.
While the principles taught in this introductory class can also be applied for emotional pain, it is geared towards those who suffer chronic physical pain or from a chronic illness.
The teachings are drawn from Dr. Wolf’s new book Outsmart Your Pain – Mindfulness and Self-Compassion To Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind.
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Teacher(s)
Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD
Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a former physician, internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She is the author of “Outsmart Your Pain” and the coauthor of “A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness”. Dr. Wolf is the lead-consultant and teacher trainer for the VA’s (US Department of Veteran Affairs) National Mindfulness Facilitator Training.
She was trained as a Dharma and retreat teacher through Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.
Originally from Berlin, Germany, she is a senior teacher at InsightLA in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and their three teenagers.
www.christianewolf.com