BASE CAMP Program

Are you stuck in a viscous cycle with poor nutrition, exhaustion, brain fog, out of control stress and uncomfortable symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, leaving you with intense flares, cognitive issues, poor recovery, depression/anxiety, digestive problems, and increasingly widespread pain?

Welcome to BASE CAMP: The 4 month group program for complex patients to learn exactly how to decrease persistent pain and symptoms, and dramatically increase quality of life.

Systematically addressing and linking each of the primary symptom buckets of central sensitization to the appropriate conservative treatments we as patients impact, is how we turn the dial WAY DOWN on their intensity, allowing us to: get better sleep, have more energy, increase mental clarity, mitigate stress, increase movement/mobility, and most importantly, decrease intense pain.

This program is called Base Camp because it is where we start to unlock everything else that is possible despite complex pain. Here, you learn all the critical skills from someone who actually understands the barriers, with other unique warriors just like you who have similar weird stories. Why? Because there are patterns and reasons we all develop similar symptom clusters and diagnosis.

 

Many of us are so overwhelmed surviving, we don't recognize the impact of what we do during the day having a dramatically negative effect on what our body does at night. That’s why getting a handle on your sleep wake cycle, nutrition, energy management, pacing, wind-down and other skills around recovery and fueling sustainability can so significantly

affect your resilience - which is essentially the amount of space your nervous system has to take on more stress and absorb it without overflow i.e. flaring. This is where the stress bucket analogy comes in! When your nervous system is maxed out without the recovery to support any additional onslaught, it can’t cope and it results in additional flares and crashes.

I created Base Camp because I got tired of seeing so many patients with unmanageable pain for whom central sensitization was not only never well explained, but definitely not treated. This happens because there is currently not a clear, defined, way of identifying symptoms in the traditional medical system and linking them to exactly what patients can do about them.

t is the aspect of complex chronic pain that is most neglected, yet has the potential to have the biggest impact on symptoms since central sensitization is THE greatest amplifier of pain. Improving inputs like ones sleep, fueling, stress, and energy management etc. is always at the top of the priority list when I work with people individually.

Reaching your goals and layering in more life or movement requires increasing capacity by addressing symptoms of sensitization like:

  • Sensory hypersensitivity

  • Sleep disturbance

  • Chronic fatigue

  • Cognitive dysfunction

  • Mood disturbance

  • Dysautonomia

  • Motor dysfunction

It’s like Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs - you can’t get to the higher levels of purpose and fulfillment if you’re stuck in survival mode. If your body has no sense of safety and predictability, and all the alarm bells are screaming at you with the volume turned up to 20, you MUST address that first. This is actually great news! If you’ve maxed out medications and treatments but you haven’t addressed variables that are most amplifying pain, there is significant room for improvement.

Ready to change your life with complex pain? Join the Base Camp interest list!

Testimonials and Comments From Past Participants

  • “Guess what, my sleep’s been freaking epic! From where I was when I started Base Camp to where I am now is astounding. Most nights I am asleep without even remembering falling asleep. Compared to what was sometimes 90 minutes of tossing and waiting for sleep in the past. My circadian rhythm is ON POINT! I wake up at 5:20, 10 minutes before my alarm regularly now. Thank you for this amazing gift. I had insomnia from ages 8-34. I think I’m past that phase in my life now. Just wanted you to know that months later I am experiencing incredible results that have only continued to grow since the program. THANK YOU!!!

  • “Working hard making changes to my relationship with food. Staring to view it as fuel/medicine to help my healing. I had no idea the depths of incredible and ACTIONABLE information I was going to acquire doing Base Camp with Justine. It’s been such an incredible journey.”

  • “This course has been amazing. Insights have me mind blown. So, so grateful for Justine”

  • “If you are dealing with CRPS, especially chronic pain, check out Justine’s group program! It’s a game changer.”

  • “You were in my morning journaling as I was expressing gratitude for this program. It’s so amazing to not stress about whether or not I’m going to get any sleep at night because of pain. I know I am going to sleep not because of the systems and routines I’ve put in place. Slept 9:30-5:30 and it was beautiful. Thank you for that”

  • “Your BASE CAMP was my wake up call to how little protein I was having and how simple it could be to add little extra amounts instead of something else, be it an egg, a protein bar, a protein shake (which is what I can manage more so) and meat. My protein has skyrocketed since doing your group and I have maintained it and my cholesterol has improved because of it, the doc says, funnily enough as that was the only thing I changed! Opposite of what the doctors and health world would normally tell you eh.”

  • “My mindset on what I can do and that I am not alone has changed. That CRPS does not need to define me and that somehow i can gain back independent living. I am still adjusting but I am going forward instead of focusing continually on what I have lost”

  • “For most of my life I’ve lived with insomnia. For MANY years I considered a 4 hour sleep night a great night. Adding in the tools/techniques I learned from Base Camp with Justine I am now sleeping at least 7 hours a night!! It really is MUCH more than a sleep program though. I now have so much more knowledge on how to fuel my body, and set myself up for success.”

  • Gaining awareness of how to "sneak protein" into my diet totally changed my inner health, and possibly overall health as my gut began to slowly heal. I still have issues but i am much better than before and have hugely increased protein and feel way better.”

  • “Should you do Base Camp? Go for it! You will totally feel supported and not alone. You will take away something, even if its a new outlook, because a new perspective on life changes thought patterns, and then that can transform into actions changing your life more.”

  • “I have increased and continued small mapping of foot and individual muscles, being aware of keeping them moving, separating them from each other, therefore increasing strength”

  • “Chronic pain affects me the most in wanting to eat because I am so nauseous from the pain I experience. I’ve been working hard with Justine on taking back the joys I’ve lost because of my diagnosis and learning how to live in my new body!”

  • “I am asleep without thinking about it 28/30 days the last 2 months! From 25 years of serious insomnia to this - it’s AMAZING!! You have given me the incredible gift of information and tools to have this amazing new relationship with sleep. You’re the best. Rockstar status!!”

  • “My morning routine starts with a glass of ice cold water and time in front of the sunlamp while stretching. This has been a key factor in changin my sleep habits. Insomnia for 26 years to sleeping 6-8 hours a night. It’s been a process but so worth it. Learning even more new tools in Base Camp.”

  • “Been sleeping like a boss the last couple nights! I only have to work evenings a few times a year when we have sales…I got home about 7, but didn’t let that change my wind down routine time. I was asleep before 10pm!!!”

“Addressing the central sensitization component of pain that accompanies chronic illnesses like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, hEDS/EDS (hypermobility spectrum disorders), Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), POTS, GI disorders, or other forms of dysautonomias, is how we shed the layer of amplification that is most increasing underlying symptoms.”

— Justine Feitelson

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