INTRO to PRT

Lara shares a recent twist to her own personal story with pain, and she teaches a few of her favorite pain reprocessing strategies.

FINER Program, Spaulding Hospital (October 2024)

INTRO to SOMATIC TRACKING

Lara introduces somatic tracking, using her characteristic style of mixing metaphors and using unexpected analogies to get her message across.

On the Curable app, free to Curable users

FLARE TRACKING

Most PRT practitioners say you shouldn’t do somatic tracking during a flare. Lara heartily disagrees and calls her method “Flare Tracking,” which she guides you through here.

On the Curable app, free to Curable users

LIVING with STRUCTURAL and NEUROPLASTIC SYMPTOMS

Lara talks about the often taboo subject in the mindbody medicine and pain reprocessing world: that you can have structural and neuroplastic pain — and this work can help you too. It just looks different.

On the Curable app, free to Curable users

LARA’s MESSAGE of HOPE

Lara shares some of her own story and describes the fundamental building blocks for becoming skilled in pain reprocessing.

FINER Program, Spaulding Hospital (March 2024)

BEING YOUR OWN ADVOCATE

Lara gives Dr. Stracks an update one year after her 17th surgery, and she talks about the unbelievably powerful notion of agency - using your voice, speaking up, and being your own advocate.

On Dr. John Stracks video podcast (September 2023)

HOPE for HEALING

Lara talks with Dr. Stracks about her own healing journey after finding Curable and discovering the power of Curable Groups, where she is now a facilitator and content creator.

On Dr. John Stracks’ Hope for Healing podcast (December 2021)

Chronic pain & symptoms are more nuanced than we like to believe.There is a false binary out there in the way people tend to think about chronic pain / symptoms - that it must either be “structural” (physical or medical) or it is purely neuroplastic (or mindbody or “TMS”), and so it will require either medical intervention or a mindbody approach. This is not only a false dichotomy, but it can keep people from getting the care they need. Many of us have a complex blend of issues that may require multiple treatment modalities for healing - and that’s OK.

Reclaiming your agency & self trust is key.Take your power back, get quiet, and listen to yourself. Remember that no matter what is happening that you do not have control of, you do still have some control. Agency is about building self-trust, using your voice, and taking the next step that is right for you.

Healing is a social process.People need people, and hurt people especially need people. We cannot do this alone, and it is the myth of the “rugged individual,” such an American mentality, that we can - or should - do it alone. The physical pain can create social trauma (not being heard or believed amplifies the trauma and the suffering), and so the healing must be social too. Finding people who can validate and encourage you can repair that fundamental alienation in a way that is deeply healing.