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.
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Things to read, watch, and sit with.
Rob's writing from the Substack, the books that map this field, and recordings worth your time. None of it requires coaching to be useful. If something lands and you want company doing the work, that is what I am here for.
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From the Substack.
Short essays on pain, the nervous system, and what recovery actually feels like. New posts show up here on their own.
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Start with the one that sounds like you.
Each of these comes at the same idea from a different angle. The first is the daily practice. The second is the science. The third is the deeper, older lineage. You do not need all three.
Alan Gordon co-led the Boulder Back Pain Study that put pain reprocessing on the scientific map. He explains the modality in plain English, with patient stories that read like our sessions feel. If you want the case for why your pain can be unlearned, start here.
Find it on Bookshop.org arrow_outwardHoward 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.
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style The Crying Games
Draw a card. Answer honestly.
A deck of permission questions from Rob. There are no right answers, only true ones. Shuffle through, sit with whichever one finds you, and let it be messy. One day this will be a real deck you can hold. For now, it lives here.
The Crying Games
No. 1
What is something you haven't given yourself permission to say out loud yet?
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Talks, practices, and conversations.
Recorded guided practices and conversations about this work. The first ones are on the way.
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A short walk-through of somatic tracking you can follow along with. Placeholder — this becomes a real video when it's recorded.
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A conversation about why pain persists and what helps it settle. Placeholder — swap in the episode when ready.
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A recorded talk introducing the work in plain language. Placeholder for the recording.
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