Terms
The short version: I am a fellow patient, not a clinician. I will listen properly and tell you honestly what has helped me. Keep your doctors.
What I am offering
A 50-minute telephone conversation with me about living with long-term chronic pain. It is peer support and spiritual companionship, drawn from thirty years of my own experience of pain, four spinal surgeries, fibromyalgia and arthritis.
What this is not
- Not medical care. I trained as a nurse, but I am not practising as one and I am not your nurse. Nothing I say is a diagnosis, a treatment, a prescription, or medical advice, and none of it is a substitute for your own doctors. Do not start, stop or change any treatment or medication because of something I said. Talk to your prescriber.
- Not therapy or counselling. I am not a licensed therapist, psychologist, or counsellor, and a session is not mental-health treatment.
- Not spiritual direction or pastoral counselling in any ordained or licensed capacity. I am a believer who prays, not a member of the clergy.
- Not a cure, and not a promise. I cannot tell you what will work for your body, and I make no claim that anything we discuss will reduce your pain.
- Not urgent or crisis care. If you are in danger, in a medical emergency, or thinking of harming yourself, call 911 or your local emergency number now. Please do not wait for a scheduled call.
Booking and payment
A single session is $75. Four sessions are $260, which works out to $65 each. Payment is due before the call. Prices are in US dollars.
I take a limited number of calls each week because that is what my health allows. If I have no space, I will tell you and offer to let you know when one opens.
Rescheduling, cancellations and refunds
- Reschedule any time. Pain does not keep a calendar. Tell me and we will find another slot — there is no fee and no limit.
- Four-session package: if you decide not to use all four, write to me and I will refund the sessions you have not used.
- If I have to cancel — and some days my body decides for me — you will be offered another time or a full refund, whichever you prefer.
- If a session went badly or was not what you expected, tell me. I would rather refund you than have you feel it was wasted.
The free book
Living Peacefully With Chronic Pain is my own work and remains my copyright. You are welcome to download it, keep it, and share it with someone who needs it. Please do not sell it or republish it as your own.
Your part
You are an adult making your own decisions about your own care and your own body. What you do with anything we discuss is your choice and your responsibility. Please be honest with me about your situation, and stay under the care of your medical team.
Limits
I offer these sessions in good faith and with real care, but without guarantees of any outcome. To the fullest extent the law allows, my liability for anything arising out of a session or out of this website is limited to the amount you paid me. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.
Contact
Write to me at ElizabethAnn@PeaceWithPain.today. I answer every message myself, though not always quickly — some days I cannot sit up.