Chronic Pain Recovery Support
Health Care Providers
“Ray of Hope Chronic Pain Recovery Support
was created following my own
recovery from debilitating chronic pain.”
Ray of Hope Chronic Pain Recovery Support is a 3-month scientific research-based nutrition, health, and lifestyle education support program which has been designed to complement medical care. Following completion of the program, optional continued support is available on a month-by-month basis. This program is suitable for all chronic pain patients, regardless of their specific chronic pain diagnosis, mobility status, or comorbidities.
Personalized Zoom support meetings are provided every two weeks to provide mental health support for your patients who suffer from chronic pain, in addition to providing encouragement. During the first Zoom support meeting, a learning needs assessment will be conducted to ensure that your patients receive the specific information they require, and their support will be individualized with nutrition, health, and lifestyle information. A password protected members section of this website provides educational diagrams which are screen shared during Zoom support meetings. In addition, informative blog articles will increase the nutrition, health, and lifestyle knowledge base of your patients, and empower them to implement progressive, and transformative changes.
The Foundational Building Blocks of Health provide the framework for gentle, consistent, nutrition, health, and lifestyle changes through which your patients will discover that chronic pain symptoms can be ameliorated. When combined with the medical care that patients receive in your office, the benefits of this chronic pain reduction program become synergystic. Addressing known root causes that both create and amplify chronic pain, in conjunction with the reduction of insalubrious habits, and implementation of gentle, consistent health promoting changes creates healing momentum. The time frame required for chronic pain reduction will differ for each patient referred due to the complexity of variables which have created and/or amplified their chronic pain, in addition to program compliance, and consistency.
“Quality of life can be restored.”
This inclusive, comprehensive chronic pain reduction program is suitable for patients with all levels of mobility, ability, and disability, including your patients who require a wheelchair, and your bedridden patients. Program subjects include nutrition, with focus placed upon reduction of inflammatory foods, increased consumption of anti inflammatory high antioxidant superfoods, oxidative stress reduction, toxin intake reduction, and natural support of the body’s detoxification pathways. In conjunction with inflammation and pain reduction, non-opioid pain management strategies will be encouraged. Optimizing mitochondrial health, and improving overall cellular health will be emphasized.
When indicated, strategies to facilitate an improvement in sleep patterns, and increase natural melatonin production will be discussed, in conjunction with strategies to reset the circadian rhythms of your patients. A gentle and gradual increase in movement will be encouraged as inflammation and chronic pain decrease. Safe daily outdoor light exposure will be encouraged due to its ability to down regulate pro-inflammatory cytokines, and improve mitochondrial health. Your patients who require medications that increase photosensitivity will be advised to consult with you regarding your specific recommendations. The goal is to increase mobility and exercise gently and gradually, without aggravating chronic pain symptoms.
“Chronic pain can be reduced.”
Health harming insulin resistance, and metabolic dysfunction will be explored during this program due to the high prevalence of these conditions within our society. Therefore, fasting and intermittent fasting will be discussed due to their health benefits which include autophagy, mitophagy, gut microbiome health, reversal of insulin resistance, and improved metabolic health. Diabetic patients will be instructed to dicuss intermittent fasting with you, and advised to receive medical approval prior to initiating any form of fasting to ensure safety, and to ensure that their medications and blood sugar levels are monitored closely.
Gut health including increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut), gut microbiome dysbiosis, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), and Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth (SIFO) will be covered due to their etiological prevalence when a chronic pain diagnosis exists. Since this program does not diagnose, treat, or provide any course of treatment, chronic pain patients will be encouraged to discuss any symptoms or concerns with you. Effective and ongoing communication with health care providers is encouraged to ensure that nutrition, health, and lifestyle changes are appropriate medically.
When a history of abuse, trauma, or chronic stress exists, their health harming impacts will be addressed in conjunction with the emotional and social impact of living with chronic pain. Mental health support for your chronic pain patients is an integral component of this program, with a focus placed on building resilience, and creating positive changes. By focusing on the mind-body connection involved in chronic pain recovery, we address both the emotional and physical aspects of healing.
If indicated, the healing power of forgiveness, restoration of joy, and strategies to encourage natural weight loss without dieting will also be covered. The Autonomic Nervous System will be explained, and techniques to reduce time spent in Sympathetic Nervous System mode will be discussed. If indicated, progressive relaxation will be taught to facilitate an increase in time spent in Parasympathetic Nervous System mode. The healing benefits of stress reduction will be emphasized. When indicated, gut-brain axis, hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis, neurotransmitter production, epigenetics, and how the aforementioned factors affect health will be discussed. The benefits of massage therapy, and gentle chiropractic care will be mentioned when appropriate.
Following my 25-years of practice experience as a Registered Nurse, resignation from practice due to my personal descent into debilitating chronic pain, and my subsequent recovery, I am positioned uniquely to provide both the education and support that your chronic pain patients require. I’m happy to share that I no longer experience symptoms from fibromyalgia, lower back pain, bursitis, nerve pain, or migraine headaches. Neuropathy in my right hand, hypertension, and baseline tachycardia have resolved, and every aforementioned health improvement occurred because I embraced the Foundational Building Blocks of Health. My body continues to heal and strengthen. Ray of Hope Chronic Pain Recovery Support was created because I understand the suffering that accompanies chronic pain, both personally, and professionally. I’m passionate about helping your patients to improve their quality of life, and my dedication is unaparalleled. Better tomorrows are not only possible, but achievable for your chronic pain patients!
“I would be honoured to provide the comprehensive, peer reviewed research-based education, and individualized support your chronic pain patients require to decrease their chronic pain levels, and improve the quality of their lives.”
"My quality of life has improved dramatically, and joy has returned."
Although I no longer practice as a Registered Nurse, I continue to help people by providing nutrition, health, and lifestyle education. Having recovered from unrelenting chronic pain from multiple medical conditions, I am positioned uniquely to support people who are suffering from chronic pain, and provide them with encouragement and hope that better tomorrows are possible.