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Pain cafes

We all know cafes are informal spaces where people can pop in, get some sustenance and chat with people around them. Pain cafes are the same with a focus on talking about our experience of pain and how we manage it. It is a chance to talk to about pain and lots of other things – we are not defined by our pain. We can share ideas, develop new tools to help other people understand our experience and just chat about everyday life.  Cafes are supported by;

Baristas – people who have training and knowledge about pain (like making coffee).

Menus - of activities and strategies to whet your appetite.

Come and go atmosphere

Intelligent and understanding conversations with some banter and fun thrown in.

The Cornwall wide Café will meet every 4 weeks to offer everyone across Cornwall the chance to meet, share and develop skills and methods of managing pain, sharing experiences and help other people understand what it can feel like.

We can improve experience education and environments to help us all and those around us.

Last Thursday of every month, 12-13:30

We can all change the way we think (and therefore feel) things. We can literally change our brain no matter what age. Try this exercise. Look at the diagram below. Read the words first e.g.yellow, blue, orange, black, red etc. Quite quick and easy I imagine. Now try reading the colours of the words e.g green, red, blue, yellow, blue etc. I guess it took longer and your stumbled across some words as your brain wanted to read the words rather than the colours. Through practice you can learn to read to colours of the words as quickly as reading the words himself.