Mandy Mercuri

Mandy has lived with chronic back pain for over 30 years stemming from corrective surgeries for scoliosis in her teens. After attending a 3-week intensive pain management course in 2009 she came off all medications and started self-managing her pain. She is a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator and certified Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) coach. Mandy has been practicing mindfulness for over 15 years and finds it to be a critical part of living well, building meaningful connections, finding peace and ease in daily living and encountering more joy. She confidently now reports she is recovered from chronic pain… and passionately shares her story because she loves letting other people experiencing pain know that yes, recovery is possible. Mandy aims to live aligned to her values of love, patience, kindness and awareness, taking a playful view of life as an experiment - one that requires many shifts, changes, tweaks! As Jon Kabat Zinn said "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf!" She readily admits to often getting it wrong but is comfortable accepting living this one incredible, wondrous life moment by moment, breath by breath.

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