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If you're like me, you know your emotional feelings affect your physical feelings. You may have already heard about *TMS, **PPD, neural pathway pain, stress-induced illness, or some other name for mindbody pain. Most importantly, you sense there’s a way to “unlearn” your pain. You just don’t know how to go about it, or what it takes to succeed!
Maybe you’ve been made to feel like your pain is “all in your head.”
It’s not!
I know from experience. The pain is real.
But while it's not imagined, it IS in your BRAIN. Because that's where pain is "made."
I can show you how your brain – like mine – learned to make pain, real pain, as a way to protect you.
And if you learned pain, you can unlearn it.
Simple enough! But not always easy...
You need someone who can understand your frustration, renew your hope, believe in your ability to retrain your brain, and give you tools to empower yourself.
Maybe you’ve been made to feel like your pain is “all in your head.”
It’s not!
I know from experience. The pain is real.
But while it's not imagined, it IS in your BRAIN. Because that's where pain is "made."
I can show you how your brain – like mine – learned to make pain, real pain, as a way to protect you.
And if you learned pain, you can unlearn it.
Simple enough! But not always easy...
You need someone who can understand your frustration, renew your hope, believe in your ability to retrain your brain, and give you tools to empower yourself.
*TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome); **PPD (Psychophysiological Pain Disorder) are names given to mindbody pain and illness.
I understand AND I WANT TO HELP YOU
UNLEARN YOUR MINDBODY PAIN.
my story |
Over the years I suffered from everything from back pain, foot pain, food sensitivities, migraines, and eventually a shoulder so frozen and painful I could hardly move or sleep... Fortunately I learned that in all these cases my brain was in a kind of "danger" feedback loop and the result was mindbody pain. I learned about the science of pain and neuroplasticity and the ways stress and emotional factors predispose us to mindbody pain. And so I moved beyond managing my pain to unlearning it.
But after struggling alone with my own chronic pain recovery, I knew there had to be a more supported way to go through the necessary emotional work and apply the latest pain science discoveries. As a theatre director, I had always embraced the advice given by my first directing professor years ago: Find the pockets of confusion, and help actors find their way out. I realized then (and it's still true) that this is what I'm called to do – whether in rehearsal or with my coaching clients. So now I’m committed to helping people find their way out of chronic pain through private mindbody coaching, group classes, and my online program, Move Beyond Pain. Sure, pain is a part of life. We wouldn’t last very long without the protective signals that acute pain provides! But chronic mindbody pain is different and can make us feel like we’re trapped in a place of fear and hopelessness. I believe that, like me, you can move beyond chronic pain…to live a more embodied, creative, mindful, and truly vibrant life. |
My values |
Curiosity
Presence
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Liminality
Integration
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Past life: University Professor, College administrator. I still direct plays.
Loves: 3 adult children and 3 grandkids Dog: a senior Shiba Inu who thinks he’s still a pup Play: Moving/Dancing/Creating w/ other theatre and movement artists Yummy: marionberry pie, anything eaten with family and friends Tarot decks: Wild Unknown and the Spolia Tarot Types: Gemini; Enneagram, 5; Birth Path, 7; ENTP Strengthsfinder: Ideation, Learner, Intellection, Input, Activator |
official bio |
Susann Suprenant is an IFS Practitioner, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, and Mindbody Coach trained in Dr. Howard Schubiner's “Unlearn Your Pain” approach with a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts. Susann’s mindbody focus helps clients with their chronic pain recovery through somatic education, mindfulness practices, emotional fluency, creative expression, and enhancing mental and physical well being.
Susann strives to create a unique mindbody coaching experience to enhance individuals’ abilities to increase their mental and emotional flexibility, enrich their quality of life, and to realize their full creative potential. Her mindbody coaching incorporates a blend of pain science education (TMS/PPD) with Presence-Based Coaching and is informed by theories and practices from mindfulness, parts work, expressive arts, and embodiment approaches. |
Let's do this! |
My great joy is to help people grow in embodied self-awareness so they can live fully with greater ease and creativity.
Contact me to find out more or join the waiting list. I so look forward to meeting you! read what susann's clients HAVE TO say... |
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"My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual
creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behavior
so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants."
