Things to read, watch, and sit with.
None of it requires coaching to be useful. Rob’s writing from the Substack, the books that map this field, and recordings worth your time. If something lands and you want company doing the work, that is what I am here for.
Short essays on pain, the nervous system, and what recovery actually feels like.
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Start with the one that sounds like you.
Both come at the same idea from a different angle. The first is the daily practice. The second is the deeper, older lineage. You do not need both.
The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook
Vanessa Blackstone & Olivia Sinaiko · 2024
This is the practical companion to the field. Worksheets, somatic tracking exercises, fear-reduction practices to do between sessions or on your own. If you want the daily how, this is it. We will use a lot of what is in here together.
Find it on Bookshop.org→Unlearn Your Pain
Howard Schubiner, MD · 2019
Howard Schubiner has been doing this work since before it had a clinical name. The third edition stays gently in the language of mind-body and TMS, which some people find more accessible than the neural-science framing. The narrative-writing exercises in the back are the heart of it.
Find it on Bookshop.org→Bookshop.org supports independent bookstores. The same titles are on Amazon and at your local library if either is easier.
Draw a card. Answer honestly.
A deck of permission questions from Rob. There are no right answers, only true ones. Sit with whichever one finds you, and let it be messy.
No. 1
Talks, practices, and conversations.
Recorded guided practices and conversations about this work. Each one lands here the day it is ready.
- 1Video coming soon
A guided pain-reprocessing practice
A short walk-through of somatic tracking you can follow along with.
- 2Audio coming soon
On fear, safety, and the nervous system
A conversation about why pain persists and what helps it settle.
- 3Talk coming soon
Permission to Ugly Cry, the talk
A recorded talk introducing the work in plain language.
Two doors worth knowing about.
Neither is me. Both are where I would send someone I love.
The field
Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms
The professional home of this work. Research, training, and a directory of practitioners who treat pain and symptoms the nervous system is keeping alive.
neuroplastic.org→Where I trained
The Pain Psychology Centre, UK
Evidence-based, pain-psychology-informed support delivered virtually across the UK. If you want a licensed clinical team rather than a coach, start here.
painpsychologycentre.co.uk→Want company doing the work?
Reading is a start. Company helps. The intro call is free, fifteen minutes, and there is no pressure to continue.
— Rob xx