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SUMMARY:SPIRIT: Living Well (Enough) with Chronic Pain
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 20\, 2025  12 noon EDT. \nLiving Well (Enough) with Chronic Pain \n\nWhat does it mean to live Well (Enough) with Chronic Pain?\nWhat supports are helpful to people living with Chronic Pain?\nWhat is not helpful?\nWho needs a support group anyway?\n\nPRESENTED BY: Michele Cohen\, LCSW\, FIPA\, Anne Brazer Ciemnecki\, MA and Janet (Jan) Stubbs \nMichele Cohen\, LCSW\, FIPA\, is a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in private practice\, based in New York City\, with an interest in group work as well as individual adult treatment. She is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) in New York City and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Michele is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She has taught in both CFS’s Psychoanalytic Training Institute and its 2-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. She has also supervised and taught at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP). Michele also has an ongoing interest in understanding the mind–body duality as it interfaces with patients suffering from physical pain conditions\, an area of practice that is often misunderstood by physicians as well as by mental health professionals. She has presented her work in this area at NEFESH International (2018) and at the FPA’s National Conference (2019). She currently facilitates online support groups for individuals with neuropathic facial pain. \nAnne Brazer Ciemnecki\, MA\, is a retired senior fellow from Mathematica\, where she specialized in health and economic policy. Her mother and grandmother had trigeminal neuralgia. Anne has seen treatment evolve from the ineffective alcohol injections her grandmother used to the high-tech magnetic resonance imaging\, microvascular decompression (MVD)\, and gamma knife ablation that alleviated her pain. She serves on the New Jersey Commission on National and Community Service and the Womanspace Advisory Counsel. She is a member of the Mercer County Medical Reserve Corps\, an advocate for domestic violence victims\, and a therapy dog handler. Anne is Secretary of the FPA Board of Directors and has been a peer mentor and support group leader for the FPA. She has been instrumental in designing the FPA Patient Registry. Anne is the coeditor of two books\, Facial Pain: A 21st Century Guide (Lulu\, 2020) and Facial Pain: Living Well with Neuropathic Facial Pain. \nJanet (Jan) Stubbs started having health issues when she developed rheumatoid arthritis at 20 years of age. She developed peripheral neuropathy and TN 18 years ago. She also had a below-knee amputation of her left leg 15 years ago because of a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. She has been a life-long volunteer with her church. Now in her 80s\, she continues to volunteer at church and in clubs in her retirement village. An important volunteer activity is driving people to their health appointments. Her TN was under control with Neurontin for several years until the drug depleted her sodium to dangerously low levels. Through a member of her son’s church\, she found a brain surgeon who performed a successful MVD in 2018\, and she has been pain-free from TN since then. She is a member of an online TN support group. \nClick here for the zoom link to register and receive the recording after the program. \n  \nThis program is dedicated to the memories of Moshe Ben Dov Ber (a”h) and Shayna Mirel bas Aharon (a”h) (Melvin and Mirele Steinig) \n  \nCORPORATE SPONSORS:   \nMEMORY MATTERS — https://renayudkowsky.com/signature-course/ \nCAPITIL REAL ESTATE — https://capitil.com/ \nMEDICARE INSURANCE SPECIALIST — https://www.65andready.com/ \nFORSPANKLEAR\, LLP — https://www.forspanklear.com/ \nWINSTON WEALTH ADVISORS — https://winstonwealthadvisors.com/ou/ \nSCHWARTZ BROTHERS JEFFER/SINAI CHAPEL/PARKSIDE MEMORIAL CHAPELS — https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/forest-hills-ny/schwartz-brothers-jeffer-memorial-chapels/4131 \nCITIZENS BANK — https://lo.citizensbank.com/nj/woodcliff-lake/david-siegel \nJRESPONDER — https://www.sosresponder.com/ \nKORINSKY & KLEIN\, LLP —  https://www.kklawfirm.com/ \nLET’S GET ORGANIZED — https://lgorganized.com/ \n____________________________________________________________________ \nWe have created a new SPIRIT website with archives and upcoming programs! 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