🔄 The Pain Paradox: When Healing Hurts (and When Pain Is Actually Helpful)

We’re taught to fear pain. But what if pain isn’t always a problem?

Healing often hurts — and not because something’s wrong, but because something is changing.

Like sore muscles after exercise or emotional discomfort in therapy, pain can be a sign of growth, not damage.

In Regenerative Pain Theory, pain is a form of intelligence — your body adapting, updating, responding.

It doesn’t always mean stop. Sometimes, it means keep going, wisely.

Pain isn’t always protective. Sometimes, it’s productive.

The trick is learning to ask: Is this pain harming me — or helping me heal?

Pain that leads somewhere isn’t suffering. It’s signal.

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