Group Naturopathic Program
Do you want to better understand your joint pain or endometriosis and gain meaningful support?
Groups are available for Endometriosis or Joint Pain.
Experience individualised consultations within a group setting
Connect with people who know what it is to be in persistent pain and can understand your experience.
Group Naturopathic Consultations aren’t just about pain, rather each 4-week course focuses on key strategies, education, individual treatment programs and prevention giving you deeper insight and providing healing outcomes. Informed by evidence-based research this group aims to empower you to understand and consequently manage your pain or condition and contributing underlying factors.
Group Naturopathic Consultations provide evidence-based strategies along with individualised care designed to help you manage your Joint Pain or Endometriosis.
Why aren’t I getting better?
When it comes to pain our bodies can be overprotective, and the pain system is one area in which this overprotective role can really excel.
Pain that lasts longer than a few months can be in part because your pain system is more efficient and sensitive – your nervous system has learned that pain is the ‘go-to’ response. Pain pathways become entrenched and the nerves in the spinal cord and brain change and become more responsive.
Understanding what neuroscience has informed us about how pain becomes persistent can actually help reduce pain, and there is a growing body of evidence to support this effect… that is:
Knowing how pain works in the body can help reduce the threat of pain and pain itself.
There is a science to pain and when you understand it, it makes heaps of sense. However, despite the growing tsunami of research in this area many health professionals don’t know about it or understand it.
To be clear, pain protection isn’t about weakness or mental issues. Neither is it about a worsening trauma or injury.
It is about your body doing a really good job of protecting itself.
When our pain system becomes overprotective, it can stop us, sometimes literally in our tracks. It means we are going to move less, participate less in everyday activities, and sometimes even engage less socially. These are the things that are actually necessary to help move us away from persistent pain and towards recovery.
We look at the key factors that drive overprotection in each group; Endometriosis or Joint Pain.
We look at the key factors that drive overprotection in each group: Endometriosis or Joint Pain.
The good news is that re-training can help you to wind back over-protection so that your system is less sensitive, and this can mean less pain.
Understanding your pain can help!
Feel connected, establish strategies that work for you, find the help you need.
Group Naturopathic Consultations can help you find individual solutions. This 4-week course covers:
01 — The Neuroscience of Pain
Explaining how the pain system works in the body including the factors that amp it up and those that calm it down. We will look at strategies to re-map the brain’s pain pathways and shift the body’s stress responses. You will be supported to create your own acute flare plan and work out what helps ‘wind down’ your pain.
02 — The Role of Sleep & Hormones
Understanding its role and how to increase sleep can reduce the severity of your pain and feelings of depression around your situation. We will look at supportive strategies that work for you including factors such as optimising blood glucose levels to support sleep, quietening brain activity and providing the ‘energy’ your brain needs to clear toxins and reset overnight. Also covered is the role of hormonal balance, a particular focus in the Endometriosis Group.
03 — Food, Inflammation & Immunity
Getting to know how food and inflammation in the body are connected, and the role of inflammation in your ongoing pain. Get support to know what dietary strategy is going to work for your needs to down-regulate inflammatory responses, support a balanced immune system and restore optimal gut-brain axis functionality.
04 — Safe Movement and Mindset
Gain new understanding and skills when it comes to how you interact on a daily basis with your pain. There are numerous ways to help un-map your pain. We find out what works for you and your needs to help optimise physical function, and get back into life.
Group Naturopathic Consults connects you to people who understand and offer support.
“The Group Pain Management programme helped me in so many ways”
You don’t have to do it alone.
Get back in the driving seat with an understanding of the pain system & what you can do to influence it.
At Vibe Natural Health, we have an integrated team of therapists that can support you in your journey towards recovery, including Group Pain Management facilitator Ananda Mahony.
Want to find out more? Pain education facilitator and senior Naturopath Ananda Mahony will help you make sense of your condition and provide experienced advice, informed by your individual case history, as to which treatment options might benefit you best.
Want to know more?
Discover how you can start experiencing relief.
If you have Endometriosis or Joint Pain, group consults are a good way to start.
If you are suffering from chronic pain that stems from a different condition, or you prefer one-on-one care, please get in touch.