Do you have complex chronic pain?

You can become a resilient warrior.

Have you recently been diagnosed with a complex chronic illness like CRPS?

I know you’re overwhelmed. Support groups can be very negative with few constructive solutions, doctors only have so many treatments, education and access around these things can very be limited or financially inaccesible, and what you find on Google is terrifying. The isolation that builds after you develop CRPS adds to the anxiety and depression, creating an overwhelming, lonely situation. I’m sure you’ve gone to a million different sites and doctors that at best could help to some degree or at least honestly said 'I don't know.' I know that’s how I felt. I was devastated. But there IS a way to manage this disease better, create more predictability in your life, and take your power back. To thrive more than survive.

MEET JUSTINE, PAIN COACH & MOVEMENT SPECIALIST.

Justine is Founder & CEO of Resilient Warrior Coaching, and co-host of It’s Not in Your Head podcast with Dr. Dan Bates. She is a Chronic Pain Coach and Movement Specialist who works with complex pain patients incl. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, hypermobility (HSD/EDS), and other central sensitization diseases or neurological conditions. She herself lives with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a spinal cord stimulator, hEDS, low back pain and has a history of traumatic brain injury, trigeminal neuralgia, and sensitization. She gets it.

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Once diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in 2019 after recovering from the TBI for 9 years, she set forth on learning everything she could about pain and human movement in this setting, so she’d have more tools to change the way her nervous system had become - and help others do the same. She realized our own bodies are the greatest tool to create change, yet as patients we often lack the tools, language and education to empower ourselves to take back more control of situations the current medical system is not built to support particularly effectively.

Justine works with complex, chronic pain patients who have tried most treatments medicine has to offer and either want to become less reliant on them or need to further decrease symptoms to so they can live more life. She picks up where doctors leave off and focuses on optimizing variables that decrease pain we as patients have control over through her signature MARSMethod.

Justine’s clients are able to further desensitize, decrease symptoms from their primary diseases and the central sensitization and compensations that often develop from living with them, and improve strength and confidence. You’ll gain better energy, mood and decrease feelings of helplessness, gaining the knowledge to feel safe doing more, have shorter, less frequent and less intense flares, and be able to more confidently manage symptoms when they do happen.

Justine has a B.A. from Washington State University, is an OPEX Certified Coaching Professional (CCP), and Level 3 Neurostudio practitioner. She began her movement career in Cross Fit, getting her Cross Fit L1 (CF-OL1), USAWL-L1 (olympic lifting) and Adaptive & Inclusive Trainer (AIT) certifications. She then began moving more into individual design and addressing compensations/mobility with OPEX, Pain Free Performance Specialist (PPSC) and Low Pressure Fitness L1-Trainer (LPF-L1) credentials, and has since grown to taking an even more individualized, sensory/brain based approach through a nervous system/neuro lens to her work. You can learn more about her story and work in this article as well.

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1:1 Programs

In the MARSMethod Mentorship we create a truly individualized program based on your unique medical and training history, daily routine and habits, stressors, struggles, resources and goals so you can develop more predictability over your symptoms, and sustainably decrease pain. In the Individual Design Program you get individualized stability, strength and aerobic programming, incl. monthly consults. In Private Movement Sessions, we focus on sensory neuro strategies so you can address underlying weakness and inhibition, brain mapping issues, sensory deficits, gait issue, and more.
Group Programs

Struggling with sensitization, the nutrition, stress, recovery and energy management pieces of pain, and would enjoy a community where you could work together through these common challenges? Base Camp tackles everything MARSMethod and central sensitization related. If you are ready to focus more on movement patterns and fitness despite complex pain, the Complex Pain Progressions (CPP) program is for you! There, I open up my playbook from a compensation and exercise programming perspective so you can successfully increase movement and decrease pain.
Courses

Are you a DIY-er who just want the information without the time and financial commitment of other programs? No worries, I gotchu! Grab Pain Academy where I take you through the main dial movers of my MARS Method in a 6 week course delivered straight to your inbox for some sustainable wins.
Masterclasses

On-demand Masterclasses for you to learn about the importance of diaphragmatic breathing, how to progress movement with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, better understand and treat central sensitization, and improving positional intolerance using brain-based sensory techniques - topics critical for complex pain patients to manage their nervous system and improve movement without increasing pain and flares.
Challenges

CRPS warrior who is sick of fighting so hard against painsomnia to fall asleep? Get the accountability, support and education you need to consistently include simple breathing and mindfulness strategeis in your wind down routine so you can shrink the time you spend in bed frustrated and anxious trying to fall asleep. Swifter to Sleep is 7 days of improving your sleep skills and learning how to manage shutting your brain and body down at night despite excriating pain, anxiety etc.

What makes Resilient Warrior Coaching different?

RWC was founded on the ultimate mission of improving access to different movement techniques and lifestyle medicine that can improve complex pain sypmtoms and patients’ quality of life. We are typically populations severely lacking evidence-based information and individualized care and support – especially when it comes to health, fitness and lifestyle factors outside of medical treatments that significantly affect our chronic pain experience. I developed my signature framework, The MARS Method and built Resilient Warrior Coaching with the goal of arming more pain patients with the tools and perspective needed to develop the resilience required to improve long-term.

“I’ve had the privilege of following Justine’s journey closely to advicate for the CRPS community and spread the word about this illness. She has truly changed my and so many others lives.”
- CRPS patient and 1:1 client
“Justine is an incredible resource for anyone and everyone looking for help/guidance/tools to help them manage their conditions. I wish I had someone like her in those early years, what a difference having someone who truly understood and heard you would’ve made. But even 12 years in I’m still learning so much from Justine!”
- CRPS community member
“Desperation is the unfortunate key word that defines living with CRPS and other chronic pain conditions. The other is searching for a credible medical professional who is knowledgable and possesses empathy…a very tall order. Always remember, first, be your own advocate and do your own extensive research. - you know more about your own body and care 100 x more than anyone else. Secondly, listen to Justine. She knows what you’re going through and is knowledgable and articulate enough to help.”
- CRPS patient, client and friend
“You are an extraordinary coach, who is a gifted communicator. Your heart is filled with empathy and kindness. You selflessly serve a population that is often overlooked and forgotten. You are kind and gentle, and always encourage me. You instill HOPE! You are a gift and an inspiration to all who know you!!”
— Joyce H.
“I’m really excited to chat with Justine, mainly because I really don’t know much about CPRS and I wanted to know more about it. I’ve been coaching people with autoimmune diseases for the last few years, and during that time I had a lot of people reach out for coaching who had CRPS or wanted information on it, and I really didn’t have any good resources on it. Justine and I connected through IG, I’ve been following her since, she puts out a lot of great information (go follow her if you don’t). Now, if I’m talking to someone on social media and they have that condition, I actually refer them to Justine. She’s a really great resource and she’s doing a lot of great things with the condition.”
- Paul, Autoimmunity Fitness Coach
“Justine didn’t run and hide from her diagnosis. Instead she rose to unprecedented heights. She has gained more knowledge in this field compared with providers I’ve worked with who work at chronic pain programs) and her desire to find solutions dueled this beautiful passion and calling that has become Resilient Warrior Coaching. Her struggle turned into motivation to help others crawl out of the darkness and despair that this disease can put you in. And she’s now created many programs to help CRPS warriors feel inspired that they too can find solutions to improve their CRPS.”
— Physician with CRPS
“I consider you to be a main reason why I’m at a place where I can accept having CRPS & not let it take me down or depress me. You are amazing.”
— CRPS warrior and friend
“I am very picky about the quality of teachers, trainers, coaches, and body workers I trust…Resilient Warrior Coaching all the way.”
— Dance & Movement Coach

Frequently Asked Questions

Though I began my work with schedule a free discovery callComplex Regional Pain Syndrome patients and I understand this disease particularly intimately and have uniquely tailored methods to it, the strategies and techniques I teach certainly apply to other chronic pain and diseases and how pain presents in them.
If you’d like to further discuss if a program is appropriate for your specific medical situation, please schedule a free discovery call or email justine@resilientwarriorciachingllc.com.
With the MARSMethod Mentorship if within two appts you feel we are not a good fit after all, I offer a full money-back guarantee. With digital products or Base Camp, if after having gone through the entire program you found no value, I will happily refund you.