Restoring Hope and Healing for Those with Chronic Pain In-Person
Harnessing the power of pain neuroscience and mind-body medicine, we'll explore the latest insights from pain neuroscience and new integrative treatment approaches that target the complex interplay between the biomedical, psychosocial, and lifestyle factors that shape our experience of pain. This interactive session will include:
1. An opportunity to explore and practice evidence-based approaches and tools from Mind-Body Medicine that can be used in one’s daily life to increase a sense of safety, soothe the nervous system, and reduce pain-related fear, focus, and suffering
2. Additional resources that attendees can explore on their own (apps, workbooks, websites, podcasts, virtual or in-person groups and individual pain counseling)
- Date:
- Sunday, Sep 7 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Location:
- Meadows Meeting Room, Meadows Library
- Audience:
- Ages 18+
- Categories:
- Health & Wellness
Speaker Background: Carol Bandura Cowley, MSN, APN-BC, is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner. She received her BA in psychology from Mount Holyoke College and her Masters in Nursing from Yale School of Nursing. She has over 39 years of experience providing direct patient care (at Salud’s Teen and Young Women’s Clinic and the Women’s Clinic within CU’s Wardenburg Student Health Center). Since 2019, she has worked at Spine West, where she offers evidence-based Pain Counseling services. Carol has advanced training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Pain Neuroscience Education, Mindful Self-Compassion, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Pain. She is a Stanford Medicine-trained and certified instructor for the Empowered Relief™ and My Successful Surgery™ programs, and she is a traveler on her own journey with chronic pain and a rare, inherited muscle disease.