Healing Chronic Pain Begins with Finding Safety in Your Own Body
Research shows that women are at a substantially higher risk than men for many common pain conditions. Yet too often, women are told their pain is “in their heads”, and is too often often not taken seriously.
In my work, I see so many women living in a constant state of tension and overwhelm. When they’re not working, caring for family, or exercising, they’re often worrying about the future or replaying the past. Coffee fuels the morning, but sleep is restless.
This cycle of push, push, push keeps the nervous system stuck in chronic stress mode—and most women don’t even realize it’s happening.
Why the Nervous System Matters
A healthy nervous system helps you process and respond to your environment. It:
Protects you from danger
Allows you to feel joy, intimacy, pleasure, and connection
Supports digestion, muscle relaxation, and healing
But when chronic stress takes over, your nervous system becomes dysregulated. Life starts to feel like a battlefield:
Muscles stay tense
Digestion slows or flares
Sleep suffers
Pain increases
Emotions feel heavy, numb, or overwhelming
Anger comes quickly, while vulnerability and intimacy feel out of reach
You may feel like you’re constantly bracing—against stress, against life, even against your own body.
When Stress Overwhelms the System
An overwhelmed nervous system can’t process the ordinary demands of daily life—much less major life transitions like:
Pelvic pain or postpartum recovery
Parenting stress
Menopause or hormonal changes
Divorce, grief, or trauma
Moving, caregiving, or career changes
Eventually, the body shouts. Pain intensifies. Fatigue deepens. And many women feel disconnected from their bodies—and from the woman they used to be.
The Good News: Healing Is Possible
You can learn to regulate your nervous system and, in doing so, support your healing. This means:
Coming back into relationship with your body
Creating safety from within, so your body doesn’t stay in survival mode
Building resilience for both daily stress and life’s bigger challenges
When your nervous system is supported, your body can:
Decrease pain and inflammation
Improve digestion and sleep
Support intimacy and pleasure
Restore emotional balance and boundaries
Deepen connection with your children, partner, and yourself
You begin to feel like you again.
How I Support Women
As an integrative pelvic health practitioner, I help women understand their own unique nervous system traits so they can:
Learn what’s happening in the brain during stressful moments
Interrupt “hair-trigger” stress reactions
Respond with more ease to partners, children, and colleagues
Reduce the physical effects of stress—like pain, tension, and fatigue
✨ If you’re ready to regulate your nervous system, decrease pain, and reconnect with your body, you don’t have to do it alone. I’d love to support you on your journey. Schedule a free consultation with me using the link above or go to darasteinberg.janeapp.com.
