[GMV Restart] Thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person
We are excited to announce that Dr. Alexandra Perel-Winkler’s “Thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person,” is restarting May 8, 2025!…
Brain Mastery (8-part series)
Dr. Lau is a board-certified anesthesiologist, MindValley Mckenna certified hypnotherapist, and interventional pain specialist who shares 40+ years of changing pain-to-life lived experience to create this interactive and didactic 8-part series. She uses brain chemistry and neuroscience to achieve better pain control, applies group hypnotherapy to enhance brain function, and identifies where you are stuck in your healthcare journey and discusses possible solutions to move past your barriers. This series is open to ALL, irrespective of your prior knowledge of brain health. No preparation is required.
Brain Health for Life (8-part series)
This unique and didactic 8-part series is facilitated by pain specialist Dr. Lau. Each session delves into brain physiology, provides practical tips to improve brain function, body health and emotional resilience. In this series, we are excited to join you in sharing effective ways of keeping our brains healthy for life. Also with each session, we share you a couple of tips on how changepain services have changed and how these impact your care and communications.
Headache, Neck and Facial Pain (4-part series)
This didactic 4-part series is facilitated by pain specialist Dr. Burns. Sessions will cover the most prevalent types of primary and secondary headaches and facial pain, pathophysiology of acute and chronic pain, drug treatment, interventional procedures, medication overuse, multidisciplinary approaches, self-management and comorbidities associated.
Relaxation (9-part series)
This didactic 9-part series dives deep into the stress management and relaxation training concepts taught in the second session of Empowering You to changepain. Explore a variety of tools, including breathing, meditation, mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy, self-compassion, chair yoga, and emotion regulation. We want to support you in actively using these tools in your daily life; strategies for successful habit change will be explored.
Self-Compassion (6-part series)
This didactic 6-part series dives deep into higher levels of self-compassion taught in our Empowering program. We want to support you in breaking the habits of judging, shaming, and beating ourselves up and learning to be kinder to ourselves. You will be guided through a practical and experiential exploration of self-compassion applied to navigating pain, our health care system, relationships, productivity, emotions, and body image.
Healing After Trauma (4-part series)
This is a didactic 4-part series. Stress impacts us all – trauma occurs when stressful events or situations overwhelm our system, impeding healing and recovery. Trauma essentially results from circumstances that are too fast, too much, or too soon. In this GMV we will look at the physiology of trauma and introduce tools for self-regulation such as simple Qigong-based movements, breathwork, visualizations, strategies, etc.
GMV UPDATES
April 2025 GMV Updates
Good news! MSP changed their rules to increase accessibility for new patients. New patients without a referral can self-book and…
March 2025 GMV Updates
Good news! MSP changed their rules to increase accessibility for new patients. New patients without a referral can self-book and…
February 2025 GMV Updates
Good news! MSP changed their rules to increase accessibility for new patients. New patients without a referral can self-book and…
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