Pain Rebels
Our Promise
- We believe your pain
- We will not patronize
- We will not stigmatize
- We will not condescend
- We will support you along the way
- We will guide you in your practice of each biohack
- We deliver the information in manageable chunks
- We will provide links to the articles we reference
- We believe what works for you does and
- What doesn't work for you doesn't
- We will provide scientific details
- In ways that make it usable
- We believe you because
- Your pain is
- REAL
About Us
Jill Casey PhD
- Pain Nerd
- Retired Psychologist
- Person with Chronic Pain
Dr. Jill Casey is a pain rebel expert who has helped thousands of people find relief from their chronic pain. She has over 20 years of experience in the field and is dedicated to empowering others to transform their pain.
Pain Rebels History
The Pain Rebels biohacking system has been a passion project for over a decade, created by founder Jill Casey.
Frustrated by the judgmental, condescending, and unhelpful self-help, therapeutic interventions, and training available for chronic pain, Jill set out to do something entirely different. She applied her passion for science and her focus on pain to scour pain research. She gleaned important insights from methods that altered biological systems, ensuring these methods were measured with well-established tools like blood tests, fMRI, EMG, and EEG.
Originally presented in the book Master Your Pain and online as The Mastering Pain Method, the core biohacking skills have remained largely intact due to their strong track record and immediate results.
Despite the approach's successes, it was hard for people to learn without 1:1 coaching. So, Jill spent the last several years improving the delivery and packaging of the complicated concepts of pain biology, pathophysiology, and biohacking. Through this improvement process, she created concepts like The Four Parts of Pain and The Nine Foundational Skills while focusing heavily on empowering and non-stigmatizing language.
The old Mastering Pain Method has glowed up into what it is now: Pain Rebels.
The Timeline
- 04/01/2009 Creates the first outline of The Mastering Pain Method, compiled from worksheets created for Jill's patients.
- 12/2010 Contract with Visceral Books, LLC to publish “Master Your Pain.”
- 03/2012 Jill provides CE to the medical and CAM community in Vancouver, WA, at the Spine Symposium on “The Interaction of Pain and Psychological Distress.”
- 09/2012 Jill provides CE to the Pain Society of Washington, Vancouver Chapter, on the advances in psychological care for chronic pain management.
- 09/2012 Jill speaks at the Western Pain Society meeting on the back pain panel, discussing the psychological treatment components of back pain management.
- 11/2012 Master Your Pain workbook is officially launched.
- 02/05/2013 The Mastering Pain Institute website is launched.
- 02/2013 Jill and Dr. Smith speak at a Cedar Hills Hospital CE event on The Mastering Pain Method.
- 02/2013 Jill speaks at the Washington State Psychological Association regional meeting about using neurobiology to treat chronic pain.
- 04/2013 Jill speaks with the Psychology Club at Washington State University about Pain Psychology.
- 04/2013 Jill speaks via webinar to the Portland, Oregon Fibromyalgia-ME/CFS support group on “Neuroplasticity: How it Hurts - How to Make It Help.”
- 06/2013 Jill speaks via webinar to the Portland, Oregon Fibromyalgia-ME/CFS support group on The Mastering Pain Method: Changing Pain - Changing Lives.
- 07/2013 Jill speaks via webinar to the Portland, Oregon Fibromyalgia-ME/CFS support group for Part III in the “Endogenous Opioids” series.
- 08/2013 Jill speaks via webinar for the final part of the four-part series, “Mindfulness: Making the Neurobiological Change.”
- 10/2013 Dr. Smith presents at Portland State University, introducing The Mastering Pain Method.
- 11/2013 Jill provides CE at the Pain Society of Washington Meeting on the importance and methods of teaching the neurobiology of pain to the public.
- 04/2014 MasteringPainMethod.com launched.
- 12/2014 Jill joins forces with Legacy Pain Management in Vancouver, Washington, to support the pain community.
- 06/2015 Jill and Dr. Smith provide a 2-day 12-hour CE training on The Mastering Pain Method sponsored by the Washington State Psychological Association.
- 11/2015 Jill and Dr. Smith provided another 2-day, 12-hour CE training on The Mastering Pain Method.
- 02/2016 Jill brings The Mastering Pain Method to an interdisciplinary pain program for injured workers.
- 10/2017 Jill speaks at the Academy of Integrative Pain Management on the role of stigma and how providers should do better with their patients with chronic pain.
- 03/2019 Jill looks for tech boot camp programs to expand the reach of The Mastering Pain skills beyond individual therapy.
- 09/2019 Jill enters the tech field and begins her quest to understand how to launch the right app at the right time.
- 05/2020 Clinic closes due to pandemic.
- 2020-2024 Continual editing and revision of core concepts.
- 07/2024 Jill and Tonia form Pain Rebels to focus on biohacking skills and empowerment against negative stigma for people with pain!
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