Self‑Compassion Tools for Chronic Pain In-Person
This educational session offers an overview of recent advances in pain neuroscience and evidence-based approaches from mind-body medicine for chronic pain. Participants will have the opportunity to explore psychological tools that can help calm the nervous system, increase self-efficacy, and reduce pain‑related fear, focus, and suffering. They will also receive a handout with additional resources to explore on their own, including apps, workbooks, websites, and podcasts.
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- Date:
- Sunday, May 17 2026
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Location:
- Boulder Creek Room, Main Library
- Audience:
- Ages 18+
- Categories:
- Health & Wellness
About the presenter: 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.