21st Century Pain Solutions

Did you know that just because you have pain in a spot, it doesn’t mean there is damage there? Because pain and damage aren’t necessarily correlated, different approaches can be taken to overcome it. Joletta Belton joins me on this podcast to discuss her experience with chronic pain that ended her career as a firefighter and caused her to dive deep into understanding what happened to her and how others can do the same. Joletta Belton is a nature lover, bibliophile, and storyteller. She is cofounder of the Endless Possibilities Initiative, a nonprofit with a mission of empowering people with pain to live well. She is also the creator of MyCuppaJo.com, where she makes sense of pain and healing through science and stories. Both projects were born of her experiences living with chronic pain, pain that forced her to medically retire from her job as a firefighter paramedic, the career that had defined her. Her desire to understand her pain led her back to graduate school, where she earned her MSc in hum