Helping Your Child Quiet Chronic Pain and Dizziness
- Jamie Shafir
- Jul 26
- 2 min read

Watching your child struggle with ongoing pain or dizzy spells—and hearing doctors say “all tests are normal”—can feel bewildering. You’ve sat through every exam and come away with more questions than answers. Rest assured: your child’s pain and dizziness are real, even when no structural cause shows up on scans.
Pain and dizziness are our brain’s protective alarms. When that alarm stays on high alert, harmless sensations feel threatening—like a volume knob cranked too loud. This overprotective response can trap your child in a cycle of fear and avoidance, making every ache or spin feel unsafe. If this sounds like something that applies to your child, check out our online courses.
From Fear to Freedom: Free Introductory Course
In our free course, we provide:
Psychoeducation: Pain is meant to be protective, and how it can become overprotective.
Strategies: To identify and address worry thoughts
Graded movement: Gentle, playful steps to rebuild confidence in their body.
We teach how brains learn—and unlearn—threat responses and pain. One evening, I discovered a rattlesnake in my backyard. For weeks, every glance at my green garden hose made me freeze in terror. Likewise, after a construction worker thought a nail pierced his foot, he endured excruciating pain—even though the nail went between his toes, without a scratch! These stories reveal how powerful—and reversible—our neural alarms can be.
Diving Deeper: Fee-Based Program
When you’re ready to explore the emotional roots of chronic pain and dizziness, our comprehensive course offers:
Supportive communication: Guidance for parents to validate feelings without fueling fear
Psychoeducation: Understand how unprocessed emotions can keep the alarms buzzing
Building advanced skills: Research-based breath work, visualization, and grounding tailored for children and adolescents to calm their alarm systems
Play-based emotional exploration: Art, storytelling, and guided imagery to safely bring hidden feelings into the open.
Customized action plan: Targeted strategies for muscle tension, dizziness, and worry—so your child works towards regaining trust in their body.
As emotions surface and are processed, neural circuits rewire. Over time,
the pain and dizziness alarms can calm down, and kids can rediscover play
and joy.
Enroll Today!
Begin with our free introductory course to address fear and avoidance. When you’re ready for deeper emotional healing, upgrade to our fee-based program for more robust tools. Let’s help your child unlearn overprotective pain responses and embrace childhood with confidence and joy.
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