Minimizing your time in threat physiology and maximizing safety allows your body to heal. It can be compared to learning how to play major league baseball.Coaching sessions are a powerful adjunct to the DOC Journey course or app. Here is your “homework:” Please commit to spending some time on these foundational concepts.

• Read Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain 
  • Knowing the nature of chronic mental and physical pain and understanding the healing principles gives you the foundation from which to take charge of your own care.
    
    
• The “C”quence of healing is the framework for the healing approaches
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-another-name-for-pain/202301/the-cquence-of-healing-chronic-illness 
    
    
• The circle of life with the “ring of fire” is the signature tool. Awareness is the starting point for every aspect of your journey.
  • https://courses.thedocjourney.com/products/the-doc-journey/categories/2148041402/posts/2148555878 
    
    
• Minimizing your time in threat physiology and maximizing safety allows your body to heal. It can be compared to learning how to play major league baseball.
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-another-name-for-pain/202303/healing-pain-and-major-league-baseball  
    
    
• Instead of “fixing” your pain, you’ll be using approaches that stimulate your brain to form circuits AWAY from the mental/ physical pain circuits. The structure of your brain physically changes.
  • https://courses.thedocjourney.com/products/the-doc-journey/categories/2147794495/posts/2148578356

 
January

8 – Let’s Dance

• Wake Up People: Get Your Thinking Brains Online

13 – Let’s Fall in Love – Be Careful

• Falling in Love

15 – Why does love heal? - DeMello – “The Way to Love (Awareness) 

• The Power of Love - Anthony
• Threat vs safety physiology
• Love Heals

20 – Healing happens with movement – so does illness

• Exercise improves your health, quality of life, and life span

22 – Embedded relationship patterns resist change. Everyone’s needs are already being met.

• Breaking Loose - Not
• Escaping Your Family – The crab bucket

27 – Creative session

29 – Is your home a safe place?

• Do you feel safe in your own home?
   

February

3 – Your children cannot be less stressed than you – quit blaming them

• Mirror Neurons – impact on your family

5– David Burns – “Feeling Good Together”

• The chronic pain marriage-go-round

10 – Your self-critical voice – do you like it? Are you programming your family the same way?

• Create a safe haven – your family
• Relationships and rock tumblers
   

12 – Creative session

17 – Your environment and immune system

• The bidirectional relationship between stress and your immune system

19– “Verbal Abuse – Survivors Speak Out” - Patricia Evans

• Protect your family from your pain
•  Emotional abuse – “People of the Lie” – Scott Peck 

24 – Social Safety - “Connection is the fastest regulator. Isolation fuels threat.”

• Pain of social isolation

26 –  All aspects of pain must be addressed to heal.

• Fighting a forest fire

March

3 - Creative session

5 – Physical abuse – Why does it ever happen?

• Humans Wake Up! Get your thinking brains online.

10 – Let success and failure to

• Navigating life is like playing major league baseball

12 – “Parent Effectiveness Training” -  Helicopter parenting – your kid’s pain is theirs

• Core Books

17 – Pain keeps you alive

• “Pain the Gift that Nobody Wants”

19 – Creative session

24 – The power of pain – it rules the household

• Pain Rules the Roost
• What needs are being met by remaining in pain
• What about another member/ friend?

26 - Family dynamics around control – Your family and friends are not going to let you heal

• The Crab Bucket
• Breaking loose – not quite

31 – Don’t Stop learning

• Be an expert at living life