Encore: Managing Chronic Pain with Vadan Ritter

Encore: Managing Chronic Pain with Vadan Ritter

Today on the podcast, we talk to Vadan Ritter who is a Lead Facilitator and Mindfulness Instructor for the Integrative Pain Management Program in San Francisco. She share's her wealth of knowledge and experience with us on how we can use mindfulness and self-compassion to help us manage chronic pain. The program that she teaches emphasizes a unique holistic approach to pain management that incorporates bio/psycho/social elements. Vadan shares how mindfulness helps us subtract the stories that the mind creates when managing chronic pain. In order to tap into our resilience, we need to accept things as they are. Take a listen and share your takeaways with us.

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Vadan is the Lead Facilitator and Mindfulness Instructor for the
Integrative Pain Management Program in San Francisco and a graduate from UCLA's year long Mindfulness Facilitation Program in 2019. She began her exploration and training in Meditation and Mindful Movement Practices 40 years ago as a teenager through her study of Tai Qi, Yoga, Vipassana, Sufi Meditation and Taoism. She is also a certified Awakening Joy teacher, which brings together the insights from the study of happiness, neuroscience and Mindfulness. In her public health work as a Mindfulness teacher and Licensed Acupuncturist she is able to work with underserved communities to make Integrative-holistic practices widely accessible.

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