Why Childhood Trauma Survivors Suffer More Chronic Pain (And How To Get Better)

From Life Is Love School (LifeIsLoveSchool.com)

Do you live with chronic back or neck pain?

Do you ever wonder why so many childhood trauma victims suffer from chronic, debilitating pain?

Did your doctor tell you that this is “all part of getting older” and that there’s nothing they can do?

Studies worldwide have shown that the presence of early trauma appears to confer a two- to three-fold risk of later development of chronic pain. Studies worldwide have shown that the presence of early trauma appears to confer a two- to three-fold risk of later development of chronic pain. According to Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child: “The impacts of experiencing repeated incidents of toxic stress as a child “…persist far into adulthood, and lead to lifelong impairments in both physical and mental health.”

Our guest, Rose Barnes-Covenant, is a Pain Recovery Coach with a Master’s in Public Health. Rose suffered severe back pain, a condition she thought was a life sentence until she read about neuro-circuit pain and how her early childhood trauma likely set her up to experience more pain. She researched the brain-body connection, and from there, how to retrain her brain to process pain…