Assessing, understanding, and treating chronic pain and symptoms is complex.  To heal, we need to make changes by incorporating the education and skills from a number of different approaches.

Here's the good news:

We've done the painstaking work (pun intended!) of bringing together the most useful research, practices and strategies, offering it all in one seamless course. The Somatic Safety Method utilizes the same therapeutic approach we use every day successfully with our clients at our clinic, Pain Psychotherapy Canada.

The evidence-based approaches informing this course include:

• Pain Reprocessing Therapy
• Polyvagal Theory
• Somatic Experiencing
• Emotional Awareness & Expression Therapy
• Qigong
• Mindfulness
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Systemic Family Therapy

It's all about increasing safety. When the brain and body feel safer, pain/symptoms decrease.

This course will help you increase safety in the brain by learning how neuroplastic pain/symptoms work, assessing your chronic pain/symptoms, changing fear-inducing beliefs about your body and breaking conditioned responses through brain retraining.

We provide a roadmap to help your body feel safer, utilizing guided somatic practices and tools to regulate the nervous system, process trauma, and build safety with emotions.

By offering a holistic approach that increases safety in our brain, body, and social world, we give you a complete toolset to recover from chronic pain and symptoms.

The course runs through your web browser on a computer, iPad/tablet, or phone. You will join us for 10+ hours of learning, in the form of video lectures. All presented information includes citations and references to research and clinical sources, in case you want to dig deeper. And don't worry, each lecture is broken up into a short module topic, so you can learn at your own pace! Access is unlimited; you can continue using all of the resources as long as you'd like.

You will learn and practice 60+ somatic practices using downloadable audio tracks and videos. Somatic practices include somatic tracking, mindfulness meditation, emotional exploration nervous system regulation exercises, Qigong movements, music therapy, and somatic practices that utilize the voice and breath.

You'll also download and complete worksheets focused on evidence-gathering, self-assessment, awareness exercises, cognitive safety, compassion, writing/reflection exercises, and behavioural action plans.

And you don't have to do it alone! You'll gain access the MBody Community chat. Here you can  learn from others, ask questions, share your healing wins, attend live events hosted by the MBody Team, and connect with those experiencing similar challenges and successes.

The course is designed to take about 10 - 20 weeks, depending on how quickly you choose to move through the learning content, but access is unlimited. You'll learn and build somatic practices into your life, incorporating new behaviours and habits to help you heal.

Pain and symptoms reduce when we retrain our brain and nervous system to feel safe with our bodily sensations, emotions, physical movements and social world. This safety building happens at a different pace for everyone.

We recommend an approach that reduces pressure to heal within a specific timeframe. Instead, you'll be encouraged to step back every couple of weeks and look at the positive changes you've made - we call these "healing wins!". When we focus on small incremental changes, these healing wins can stack up, build momentum, and lead us to healing.

By signing up for the Somatic Safety Method, you'll gain access the the MBody Community Group. In this group, you'll be able to ask questions, share your healing wins, attend live Q&A sessions, and learn tips and tricks from others.

Your course teachers will be monitoring and participating in the community group each day, answering questions, hosting live events, and encouraging connections.

Finally, for any technical difficulties or specific concerns, you're always welcome to email the MBody Team:

[email protected]