by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 5, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness
Certain personality traits increase your chance of suffering from chronic pain. Interestingly, some of these same personality traits also raise your risk of developing cancer. Hmm . . . as a person who has had both, knowing this information gives me pause and reason...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 2, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness, Sports Training
This is a question many of us ask ourselves and may struggle to answer. Put more simply, we might say, should I go out and [fill in the blank with your planned exercise/sport] today, or should I stay home and take it easy? Our response depends on the origin of the...
by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 5, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness, Sports Training
Do you continually worry about and focus on your pain? Do you put pressure on yourself to figure out how to fix your pain and become frustrated or angry when the pain doesn’t go away? Do you degrade yourself because you’re still hurting? Do you fight against the pain...
by Jessica Kisiel | Feb 23, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a research-based treatment approach for healing neuroplastic pain. These techniques were found to be highly effective for chronic back pain in a 2022 study. Refer to my blog, New Research on Back Pain, for all the details. Earlier...
by Jessica Kisiel | May 15, 2023 | Personal Wellness
In January 2022 I listened to the Wellcoaches’ continuing education (CE) class–“The Urgency of Sabbaticals” by DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project. I recall that before I took the class, I had recently talked with an excited client about his sabbatical and...
