by Lorraine Faehndrich | Oct 2, 2020 | Chronic Pain Management
When chronic pain becomes too much to handle, many women tend to try even harder to relieve it. One personality trait that women with pelvic pain or other mind body syndromes often have is perfectionism. Maybe you can relate. We can have high expectations of ourselves...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Aug 6, 2020 | Chronic Pain Management, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief
The first step to relieving a mind body pain syndrome, whether it’s vulvodynia, pelvic pain, or another type of chronic pain is to get your focus off your symptoms of pain. In fact, what I see is that the sooner you are able to shift your focus off of your symptoms...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Oct 10, 2019 | Chronic Pain Management, Mind Body Approach to Healing, Mind Body Healing
The next time you find yourself worrying about your symptoms, consider this…Your body is 99.9999999 percent energy. Not physical matter, energy. Atoms, the building blocks of your cells, are 99.9999999 percent EMPTY SPACE. According to Dr. Joe Dispenza in his...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Dec 6, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, reclaim your sexual self, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
Today I wanted to share with you one of my absolute favorite practices for optimal health, pleasure, and overall well being for women…self breast massage. I have been practicing breast massage a few times a week for the past year, and it has completely...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Nov 15, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, reclaim your sexual self, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
One of the most difficult aspects of vulvodynia or any other type of pelvic or sexual pain can be the inability to enjoy sex and intimacy. When intercourse or orgasm is painful, has been painful in the past, or causes burning or pain afterward, it makes sense that you...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Nov 1, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief
Having a diagnosis of Vulvodynia, Dyspareunia (painful sex), Interstitial Cystitis, or any other type of pelvic pain does the opposite of making you feel safe. While you may feel some initial relief in finding a diagnosis, that relief can be short-lived, and followed...
