Do you Dream of living your life without chronic pain?
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But believe your distress and discomfort is just something you have to live with?

Susann Suprenant, Ph.D., IFS Level 1

Hi! I'm Susann. I'm a mindbody coach and I want to help you recover from chronic pain.  YOU can "unlearn your pain" using pain science education, somatic and mindfulness practices, emotional fluency and creative expression.
 
With mindbody coaching, you can move beyond persistent pain to increase your physical, mental, and emotional flexibility while enriching your quality of life and expanding your creative potential. 
 
My coaching approach blends Pain Science Education (TMS/PPD), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Presence-Based Coaching  with mindfulness, expressive arts and embodiment approaches. I hold a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts and am a ​Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. I am a Mindbody Coach trained in the Unlearn Your Pain model and am a Level 1 trained IFS Practitioner. 

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YOU'VE TRIED EVERYTHING

and nothing seems to help ...

confusing Diagnoses

Medical imaging results are critical for treating acute injuries and conditions but fail to correlate to chronic pain.

discouraging treatments

Too many previously accepted treatments are now shown to have little to no benefit at great expense.

limiting your life

Pain (and fear of pain) can take away the things you enjoy most in life and replace with depression and anxiety.

chronic pain is often learned mindbody pain

Mindbody symptoms, felt as chronic pain or discomfort in the body, are caused by learned neural pathways in the brain. These neural pathways are associated with stress, trauma, and repressed emotions. The painful or distressing symptoms can be relieved when the neural pathways are “unlearned.” 

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“When diagnostic tests are normal, illnesses can be baffling until proper treatment is provided.

• Headache, back pain, muscle or joint pain, and abdominal or pelvic pain
• IBS, interstitial cystitis, and dermatological conditions, such as eczema or acne
• Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, tinnitus, and Hypersensitivity syndromes

​Similar symptoms can also result from diseases that can be diagnosed through tests, so it is essential to have a medical evaluation to be sure none of these diseases is present.”
Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. (2019). Patient/General Public [online] Available at: www.ppdassociation.org/patient [Accessed 15 Feb. 2019].

mindbody coaching

Our neuroplastic brains can change! I will guide you to tap into your own ability to unlearn pain:

understand Pain

Chronic pain isn't reflective of damage Instead, it's our brain's sensitivity to interpreting possible danger.

Address stress

You can renew your brain's sense of safety, lost due to life events and challenging, hard-to-access emotions.  

Move with confidence

Gentle, graded exposure to functional movement retrains our brains to expect comfort, ease, and resilience. 

The Mindbody approach to chronic pain recovery is

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL

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The previous (and still prevalent) biomedical perspective on pain leads patients to search for the single cause of their  pain, hoping to find the right health professional who will "fix" it. The "it" is assumed to be a structural or purely physical issue and "fixing" usually involves surgery, injection, manipulation or relying on medication for pain "management." Too often, these attempts do not work.

In contrast, the biopsychosocial model recognizes that multiple factors – biological, psychological, and social –work together to produce chronic pain. Our thoughts and emotions produce biological responses that can lead to a host of painful conditions as do the social and cultural interactions we experience. Challenging life events, past and present stress, personality traits, habitual patterns, and our beliefs and expectations about pain can all play a role in how pain is produced and experienced.

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neural pathway pain can be unlearned using the biopsychosocial approach.

Mindbody Coaching will give you the tools, guidance and support you need to unlearn your neural pathway pain.

"The body of the person and his [sic] self, or being, are inseparable."

- moshé feldenkrais

PODCAST INTERVIEWS

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10/21/22 Interview on The One Inside,
a podcast exploring Internal Family Systems
(IFS) hosted by Tammy Sollenberger.

Listen to Podcast

2/01/24 Interview on The Steady Coach, a podcast to support people recovering from mindbody symptoms, especially dizziness and other vestibular challenges. Hosted by Dr. Yonit Arthur.

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4/05/23 Interview on Let's Talk Mindbody Healing, hosted by Felicia Jaremus.

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7/16/2019 Interview on Happy Health Podcast hosted by Rita Rivera.

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What clients are saying...

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By sheer luck, I enrolled in an online group training led by Susann. I was immediately impressed by her fierce intelligence, creative and intuitive approaches to mind-body issues, and great sense of humor. After the group training ended, I knew I wanted to continue working with her. She was just the wise mentor, teacher, and coach I was hoping the universe would send me.  My sessions with her are a safe haven where I feel supported, listened to, and understood. She has guided me on an incredible journey of personal growth and healing, for which I am continually grateful. If you have the chance to work with her, you will be very fortunate, indeed.

L. Johnson

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I am so thankful to have gone through my first six weeks of mindbody coaching with Susann. Her approach feels nonjudgmental, encouraging, very well-educated and creative!  At every turn she had some inspiring tale, fascinating research, or an article to encourage my reflections. I looked forward each week to our meetings, and felt motivated by her coaching to do the work specifically designed for me through the week. Susann is an excellent listener, and has great skill at reflecting back what I would share to deepen my understanding. She brings so much to the coaching experience from her many backgrounds and studies and is generous in her wealth of resources. I found this experience to be incredibly significant to my healing. I look forward to continuing this work with Susann.

N. Lollino

Dancer

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I cannot recommend Susann highly enough. Although I’ve read Richard Schwartz’s book and followed his guided meditations, Susann brings IFS to life and helps it make sense. This has also had an unexpected, deeply beneficial impact on my self-compassion practices which I had been doing for years previously. Susann has helped turbo-charge the depth of self-compassion I could not have imagined. This is because she models ways of communicating with our parts so beautifully. For me, guided IFS sessions are different every time: they can be moving, challenging, surprising, confusing, intense, and each time Susann has guided me with gentle, skilful ease, giving me confidence and a strong sense of security within the process.

L.E.

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Susann worked with me as a TMS (mind-body) coach over a considerable period of time. She was a joy to work with - always quick to understand what my needs were and thoughtful and creative in her responses. She helped to frame the work I had already done with ‘Curable’ (the mind-body app. for chronic pain) in a wider context. She was always encouraging, especially when I felt I was ‘stuck’, and helping me to move on in a positive direction. I could not have wished for a better facilitator with my own mind-body work and with my ongoing journey with chronic pain. ​

B. Kushner

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