Chronic Pain Coaching

Reduce pain, improve concentration, boost performance

Living with ADHD and related neurodivergent conditions bring unique challenges. When chronic pain is part of the picture, the struggle can feel overwhelming. Pain can drain your energy, disrupt sleep, and make it harder to focus or follow through — while symptoms like stress, restlessness, or poor sleep can make pain worse.

You may feel caught in a cycle where pain and ADHD feed off each other, leaving you exhausted and frustrated.

But you don’t have to navigate this alone. Chronic Pain Coaching gives you the tools, strategies, and support to manage pain more effectively and reclaim a sense of control.

Are you having lingering pain long after you’ve recovered from an illness or injury?

Are you feeling lasting and persistent effects that are causing you to experience life very differently now?

Pain and neurological problems can have you experiencing back and neck pain, headaches, difficulty concentrating, unabating fatigue, insomnia, loss of memory, and brain fog.  

Long periods of isolation after an illness, injury, grief, stress from job loss, and financial difficulties can leave you with the haunting experience that your life has been turned upside down. 

Does this sound like you or someone you love?

• I’m so tired I can’t think clearly.
• I can’t even concentrate enough to watch TV.
• I feel forgetful and confused. 
•  I don’t remember what I have to do.
•  Planning and goal-setting don't feel possible for me. I just don’t know what I’m going to feel up to doing each day. 
•  I’m not as sharp as I used to be. I’m having trouble keeping up at work.
• I struggle with keeping up with conversations and forgetting what I wanted to say. 
• It takes me forever to complete the smallest task and stay organized. 
• Even though I’m so tired, I have trouble sleeping.    
• Sometimes I feel like I’m getting better, and then I relapse and get really discouraged. 

Chronic Pain Coaching helps you focus on what you need today to move forward and start living the life you want. By deepening your learning and improving your performance, you learn as much as you can about your unique brain without it being overwhelming.

We work together so you can stick to healthy habits and keep your brain vital and active. Providing you with the opportunity to share your experiences, we explore strategies that align with your values to bring out the best in you to live the life you want.

Chronic Pain Coaching will help you to:

• Break the cycle of stress, ADHD/neurodivergent symptoms, and pain flare-ups
• Improve energy and sleep with routines that work for your unique brain
• Develop stress-reduction strategies that calm your nervous system
• Learn new ways to work with your memory
• Respond adaptively to manipulate and access information
• Improve attention and concentration
• Change your perspective when you feel stuck
• Problem-solve and prioritize tasks that are most important to you
• Use your strengths to transform your actions
• Identify triggers that control your responses
• Appreciate that self-care is not being selfish  
• Deepen your awareness that leads to your best options for success.
• Feel more in control of your health and daily life
• Create space for productivity, relationships, and joy — even with pain in the background

Together we determine your strengths, challenges, and capabilities in the context of your life -- based on what you CAN do rather than what you can't - and develop a game plan to get you where you want to be. The coaching process is individualized and focuses on action.

You get clarity in choosing the next steps while you consistently build new patterns and routines.  You get the support that guides you in creating a more fulfilling life with less stress and more joy. 

As your coach, you can expect me to:

• Draw from my personal experience with chronic pain, the neurodivergent brain, coaching, and productivity.
• Listen patiently with a nonjudgmental ear.
• Guide you through decisions.
• Share knowledge to help you move forward with confidence.
• Keep our sessions strictly confidential.
• Offer a fresh perspective on challenges and opportunities.

Chronic pain may be part of your life, but it doesn’t have to define your life. With ADHD-specific coaching, you can find new ways to live with more ease, energy, and confidence.

What clients say about Cheryl:
I now have the tools to assess for myself what works and what doesn’t, and why… My coaching sessions with Cheryl helped me understand why I was struggling and what I could do differently. She’s nonjudgmental, compassionate, and, insightful. - Lena Lazar

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