Vanessa Blackstone, ACSW

Vanessa Blackstone, ACSW Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center
Co-Author of“The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook”

05/12/2026

Read, listen, follow my stubstack 🙂 see today’s’ post! And if you listen to my voiceover you MIGHT get some giggling enjoyment in retelling a hilarious (funny now, not the ) story.

This is what we mean when we say “talk to the inner child and let them know how far you have come.” 🫶🏽 they would think ...
02/09/2026

This is what we mean when we say “talk to the inner child and let them know how far you have come.” 🫶🏽 they would think you are so cool

It is an honor to be for others what you needed… it heals something in you.✨
02/09/2026

It is an honor to be for others what you needed… it heals something in you.✨

Just a little something for those moments where we can’t seem to get out of our head 🧠 ✋🏽
02/06/2026

Just a little something for those moments where we can’t seem to get out of our head 🧠 ✋🏽

Let it be.Not as a platitude.Not as a surrender.But as a practice.Because after years of bracing, pushing, trying to get...
07/29/2025

Let it be.

Not as a platitude.
Not as a surrender.
But as a practice.

Because after years of bracing, pushing, trying to get it right…
After cycling through treatment plans, diets, scans, experts, protocols
…it’s easy to forget that healing isn’t always about doing more.

Sometimes, it’s about loosening the grip.
Not needing the discomfort to disappear in order to feel safe.
Not proving anything to yourself, your body, or your past.

Just letting it be.

This moment. This feeling. This breath.
Not because it’s pleasant.
But because it’s here and meeting it without resistance is a kind of medicine.

Every time you soften around what is, rather than tighten your grip to force change,
you are showing your nervous system:
There is nothing to fear here.
We are allowed to pause.
We are allowed to live…even now.

You don’t have to chase healing.
Sometimes, it finds you in the stillness.

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