How a Specific Type of Journaling Can Heal Chronic Pain
If you’ve been struggling with chronic pelvic pain, bladder urgency, or tension that won’t go away, you might feel like you’ve tried everything—physical therapy, medications, diets—only to find temporary relief at best. But what if healing wasn’t about fixing your body, but instead about retraining your brain?
A powerful method called JournalSpeak, developed by Nicole Sachs, LCSW, can help you do just that.
Why Your Brain Holds Onto Pain
Chronic pain isn’t always caused by physical damage. Instead, it’s often the result of a nervous system stuck in protection mode, keeping your body tense and on high alert. Your brain has learned to use pain as a way to distract you from deeply stored emotions—anger, grief, fear—that feel too overwhelming to process consciously.
Journaling in a specific way can help release this emotional pressure, signaling to your brain that it no longer needs to hold onto pain as a form of protection.
How This Type of Journaling Works
This isn’t your typical “dear diary” journaling. Nicole Sachs’ JournalSpeak method is structured, raw, and designed to bypass your logical mind to access the emotions your body is storing. When done consistently, this practice helps:
- Retrain the brain to stop sending pain signals
- Release tension held in the body
- Calm the nervous system and reduce fear around symptoms
Paired with breathwork, this practice becomes even more powerful, helping you shift out of fight-or-flight mode and into a state where real healing can happen.
Ready to Learn How?
If you’re tired of chasing treatments and want a tool that actually teaches your brain to let go of pain, my Journaling & Breathwork for Chronic Pain Workshop is the perfect place to start. In this workshop, I’ll guide you step by step through this transformative practice, helping you unlock the emotions keeping pain patterns alive.
