Your Pain is a Normal,
Human Response

Use these free science-based tools to help calm persistent pain in these stressful times




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If you’re struggling with worsening pain, anxiety, or physical symptoms, we see you. Your body is not broken – your nervous system is just responding to a very real threat by trying to protect you even more fiercely.

Regulating your nervous system is one of the most important actions you can take right now. Here are some free resources to help you take care of yourself, so you can continue to be there for your loved ones and community.

If you'd like more support, the Curable app is ready when you are. Ask your clinician to give you 6 weeks free or get started yourself right here.

Calm a Flare-Up

"Control Room" Visualization

Imagine you are able to access your brain's control room and turn the pain dial down.

Identifying Emotions in a Flare-Up

Use this audio guide to work through strong emotions that often arise during a flare-up of pain.

Relax the Nervous System

Dropping Into Your Body Meditation

Notice where you may be holding tension or bracing for impact, and learn to soften and release.

with Vanessa Blackstone, MSW

Safe Place Visualization

Escape to a place where you feel wrapped in safety, both physically and mentally.

Learn About the Science of Pain

The Basic Neuroscience of Pain

Understand more about how pain works in the brain and body.

Pain Catastrophizing

Learn how your thoughts and feelings about pain can impact its persistence.

More Help from Leading Experts


These live sessions were recorded in front of Curable members who joined virtually and engaged with these experts in real time.

Grounding Yourself in an Unsteady World

Political shifts and global uncertainty can activate fear, anxiety, and overwhelm in the nervous system.

In this guided session, meditation and mindfulness teacher Jessica Dixon offers calming, grounding practices designed to help you reconnect with a sense of safety and steadiness – even when the world feels unsteady.

Tapping Practices to Calm Your System

In this guided session, Nicky Cameron, LCSW, walks you through the basics of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and leads multiple rounds of soothing tapping practices.

EFT tapping is a gentle, body-based tool that can calm the nervous system, support emotional regulation, and reduce feelings of stress or overwhelm, all of which help ease persistent pain and other negative physical sensations.

How to Actually Process Your Feelings

Attuning to emotions is an essential part of mindbody healing – but many people aren’t taught how to actually process their feelings.

In this session, Dr. Justin Barker offers clear, compassionate guidance for beginning emotional processing in a way that feels safe and doable.

You’ll learn practical tools, language, and strategies to help you move through emotions rather than avoid or suppress them. 

Regulating Practices to Reduce Chronic Pain

Your nervous system is constantly communicating through sensations, emotions, and symptoms. By learning how to attune to these signals, you can access more support, build self-trust, and feel more connected to your body.

In this session, Christie Uipi, LCSW, offers a compassionate framework for understanding symptoms through a nervous system lens and creating greater safety and regulation.

If you need more support, ask your clinician to give you 6 weeks of access to the full Curable app for free or get started yourself here:

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Curable's Approach to Healing

Chronic pain is different from acute pain. When pain persists, it’s often no longer just about an injury or damaged tissue. The latest research shows that long-lasting pain – and other ongoing physical symptoms – are amplified by high stress and a nervous system that’s been under pressure for a long time.

Your body isn’t broken – it’s doing its best to protect you. When your brain senses danger, your nervous system shifts into fight-or-flight mode, triggering physical changes in your body. You’ve felt it before: sweaty palms, a racing heart, shallow breathing. But when the perceived danger doesn’t go away – like during periods of sustained fear, overwhelm, or stress – these responses don’t turn off. The nervous system gets stuck in this overprotective, heightened state, making sensations like pain and fatigue feel louder, sharper, and harder to ignore. This growing discomfort then causes more stress, and a vicious cycle is created.

The good news? You can break this cycle. By practicing skills that help your body feel safer and more regulated – like education, writing, meditation, somatic tracking, breathwork, and visualization – your nervous system learns new patterns, turning down the volume on pain and physical symptoms.

Curable turns this research into easy, step-by-step guided lessons, exercises, and expert-led classes that help calm your physical symptoms.

Want to learn more? Check out our clinician-favorite infographic: Path Into (and Out of) Chronic Pain