I’m not a doctor.
But doctors couldn’t help me. For years I was just going through the motions and being consumed with chronic pain.
Finally, I realized the only person who could help me was myself. I decided to take control of my chronic pain and make it my mission to reduce the needless suffering of the millions of people across the world experiencing this debilitating condition.
Pneumanta is my journey to explore what works, what doesn’t and give you the information you need to make informed decisions about trying new ideas to reduce or eliminate pain.
My Story:
I started Pneumanta to share the daily practices, rituals and process of discovery that help me live my life with a failed fusion in my neck and piles of other chronic conditions—all of which cause almost unreal discomfort—every. single. day.
I want to share the hope I have found that allows me to process my pain without the daily use of narcotic pain medication. I barely take anything. EVER. And I live a life beyond my wildest dreams.
My whole life I’ve lived with a series of chronic conditions that doctors have told me are reasons to quit. I’m not kidding. I had one doctor tell me “If your genetic make-up was a poker hand, I’d fold.” I was 19.
What to expect
This journey will not be all peaches and light. One of the things that drives me crazy about the wellness world is it’s a bunch of “gurus” proclaiming they’ve found “the way” and your life would be better if you were only more like them.
While I’ve figured out a lot of amazing things to improve my life, I have good days, bad days and gut-wrenching terrible days. And I’m going to be transparent and tell you the good, bad and the ugly.
Your journey will be different
The circumstances and conditions that lead to my chronic pain will be different than yours. My techniques may not work for you – but I try a lot of ideas and you’ll be able to choose the ones you want to try. From my various habits and activities, it’s my hope that you discover what works best for you – and even share your progress and results with me. You might uncover something I didn’t know about. Let’s make this a collaboration!
The first step is to take a step…
You’ll never know if you can improve your chronic pain if you don’t try. As this website’s content grows, there will be a wide variety of things for you to experiment with, from easy and passive to very challenging. Think to yourself “What’s the least I can do today to fight back against my chronic pain?” Do that one thing and see if that inspires you to go further. Try to do as much as you feel comfortable with and build a habit of fighting back.
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I’m always on the hunt to find and implement the best pain hacks I can get my hands on in my battle against my chronic pain without the regular use of opioids.
No one is paying me to promote products to you. In fact, most of my techniques only require you to breathe, listen, and lay down. However, many of these companies were extremely helpful in my healing journey and I recommend them highly:
Oxygen is fundamental to cellular repair. It is used by elite athletes, warriors and rockstars to stay in shape and perform at superior levels day in and day out. The doctor who literally saved my life used the LiveO2 system. I’ve taken 2 years to learn every possible thing about using their system from that…
So that’s the good news and the bad news on that one. Whatever it is—it’s all in your head. I’m not implying that it didn’t happen or isn’t really non-virtual. I’m saying that whatever happens to us gets stored in our brain. ONCE IT IS IN MY BRAIN, ANYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED ON…
I was so nervous to have this repair on my botched C5/C6 fusion after 3 years of excruciating and constant pain that I documented the days leading up to and recovering from the operation. My hope is that my experience and process of going through this publicly is that someone else out there will see…
I know it’s not a great way to sell my theory on healing but sometimes healing is more painful than the original injury. No one sells their healing modality, treatment or therapy that way because people currently trend towards weak and lazy and probably wouldn’t pay to try their thing if you tell them up…
Yoga has emerged to be one of the most crucial all-around pain management technologies in my life. The ability to move, breathe, move some more til it hurts a lot and then learn to breathe through that is the perfect metaphor for life. It’s the disciplinary practice of yoking my mind and body using my…
From the moment I met FaithEE, I recognized something in her that I hadn’t seen in anyone else in years. I saw someone else who understood what it took to break through blinding pain to even get out of bed in the morning in the same way that I did. She was doing her journey…
For over 20 years I have been a huge fan of regular, weekly sauna. It helps me clear out my allergies, speed cellular detoxification and repair and manage incredible pain without the daily use of opioids. I can’t advocate enough for ways of heating the body gently to help heal and keep my system moving.…
The Juvent micro-impact platform is a cornerstone of my personal home pain-hacking lab. You stand on it for 20 minutes and it gives your skeleton the same amount of exercise as if you walked for 5 hours. Since sitting is the new smoking, this device holds great promise for a number of applications. I use…
This video explains a little bit about my use of the BioMat. This is a vital tool in heating my body and battling chronic sensation that most people call pain. You don’t have to do ANYthing but lay flat to enjoy the benefits of this handy tool. No, I’m not selling them but I believe…
I got home from recording in LA to a stormy sea of harsh news, long to-do lists, mind blowing physical discomfort and a looming surgery and recovery to top it all off. When I say that sometimes I’d prefer to be curled up fetal under the bed on ALL the pills, I’m not kidding. It’s…
