Resources for help + Support
Help yourself to my free resources.
From videos to articles, take your pick from my range of free materials. I’ll be adding to this page whenever I come across anything new or interesting during my own reading and research.
I hope you find it useful!
The Mind-Body Guide
Therapy for the whole of you
These services offer confidential support from trained volunteers. You can talk about anything that’s troubling you, no matter how difficult:
- Call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans, or email: jo@samaritans.org for a reply within 24 hours
- Text “SHOUT” to 85258 to contact the Shout Crisis Text Line, or text “YM” if you’re under 19
Where to get help for urgent mental health support
24hour NHS helpline 0800 028 077 or call 111
If you’ve already been given a crisis line number to use in an emergency, it’s best to call it.
If you just need to talk, any time of day or night
Watch & Listen.
Watch the following videos to learn more about recent research findings about Pain.
1. The essence of pain is explained.
2. How your brain generates pain.
3. Predictive coding
4. How do you know if you have neuroplastic pain?
5. How your brain learns pain.
6. All about MRI’s
7. Pain as a danger signal.
8. How your brain learns pain.
This is a long interview with Dr Howard Schubiner and Dr Rangan Chatterjee but absolutely worth a listen.
I love the work of Dr Kristin Neff and here she explains all about self-compassion.
An interesting video about the placebo effect by a Harvard Professor of Medicine called Ted Kaptchuck. The placebo is fascinating and will spark discussion and questions for everyone.
A short but useful video.
This video explains how we might have more control over our emotions than we might think.
Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician who advocates for evidence-based medicine. In this TED talk video she explains about what is normal anxiety and what constitutes an anxiety disorder.
Read.
Some recommended reading.
The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook by Vanessa Blackstone.
Unlearn Your Pain by Howard Schubiner.
Drawing on the latest neuroplasticity research and the science behind the mind-body connection, readers will be guided step-by-step towards a new understanding of how the mind affects our pain – both physical and emotional – and how we can take back control to live a pain-free life.
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown.
Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.
The way out by Alan Gordon.
Alan is a psychotherapist, founder of the Pain Psychology Center, and developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). PRT is a system of psychological techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic pain. The PPDA-sponsored a randomized controlled trial on PRT at the University of Colorado, and the results were remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free.
The Mind-Body Prescription
By John Sarno, MD (1999). Reveals how many painful conditions- including most neck and back pain, migraine, repetitive stress injuries, whiplash and tendonitis- are rooted in repressed emotions and shows how they can be successfully treated without drugs, physical measures or surgery.
How your mind can heal your body.
There is no longer any doubt that the way we think affects our bodies: countless scientific studies have shown this to be true. For former pharmaceutical scientist Dr David Hamilton, the testing of new drugs highlighted how profoundly the mind and body are connected.
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