Somatic Pain Coaching for High-Performing Women: Stop Micromanaging Your Symptoms

Living in a body that feels unsafe is a full-time job you didn’t apply for. For midlife women, persistent pain is often a signal of a nervous system in protective overdrive, not a broken body.

Discover the true mechanism keeping you stuck in the “Management Trap”—and exactly how to break free.

Living in a body that feels unsafe is a full-time job you didn’t apply for. For midlife women, persistent pain is often a signal of a nervous system in protective overdrive, not a broken body.

Discover the true mechanism keeping you stuck in the “Management Trap”—and exactly how to break free.

When Movement Hurts, We Lose More Than Mobility. We Lose Trust.

In our bodies. In our strength. And in our vision for the future.

When movement signals danger to your nervous system—especially as bodies shift through perimenopause—your brain’s safety mechanism kicks in. It limits your range, tightens your muscles, and urges you to stop.

The natural instinct is to pull back from the hiking, lifting, and playing that fuel your soul to avoid the payback later. But this protective retreat creates a vicious cycle: stiffness sets in, energy drops, and the normal impulse to avoid pain begins to shrink your world.

My Mission: To help you rebuild that essential trust using neuroscience-backed somatic strategies. We move beyond generic “gentle” advice to retrain your system to feel safe again—restoring your agency so you can move with ease, protect your future mobility, and refuse to settle for a smaller life.

Somatic Pain Coaching for High Performing Women

If This Sounds Familiar, You Aren’t Just "Getting Older." You Are Stuck in a Protection Loop.

You’ve likely been told that the aches, stiffness, and fatigue are just the “new normal” of midlife. You may have even been advised to simply “learn to live with it.”

Here is the science-backed truth: While the hormonal shifts of perimenopause are real, they are not a sentence to a life of pain.

The acceleration of muscle and bone loss isn’t just about age—it’s about avoidance. When pain signals danger, you move less. When you move less, you lose capacity. The key to aging vibrantly isn’t just “resting more”—it’s learning how to signal safety to your nervous system so you can move again without fear.

The Signals of a Neural Alarm:

Unexplained Pain: Joint or muscle aches that your doctor can’t explain and that standard treatments (chiro, patches, rest) haven't fixed.
The "Tin Man" Morning: Waking up with stiffness that makes you dread the first steps of the day.
Deep Fatigue: Exhaustion that doesn't resolve with sleep, leaving you running on fumes.
Fear-Based Avoidance: Skipping the hikes, lifts, or even housework because you’re afraid of "paying for it" later.
Loss of Trust: Feeling like your body has become an unpredictable enemy rather than your best friend.
Resignation: Starting to believe that your strongest, most capable days are behind you.

These aren’t signs that you are broken. They are signals that your Neural Alarm is stuck in the “ON” position. You don’t need to force your body to work; you need to restore the alarm to a more manageable and realistic level of sensitivity.

Discover your Nervous System Score & Unlock Your Path to Relief

Your Brain Learned the Pain. It Can Learn the Freedom.

Transformation isn’t magic. It’s Neuroplasticity.

You might believe that at this stage of life, decline is inevitable. That your “bad knee” or “stiff back” is just a permanent feature of your anatomy.

Here is the evidence-informed truth: Pain is an output of the brain, designed to protect you. When you’ve been in pain for a long time, your nervous system becomes over-protective, treating safe movements like dangerous threats.

But because your nervous system is plastic—meaning it can change and adapt at any age—you have the power to recalibrate that alarm.

Imagine what becomes possible when you retrain your system for safety instead of survival:

Frrom Bracing to Ease

Picture waking up and stepping out of bed without the mental checklist of what hurts. Instead of "guarding" your body against the day, you move through it with fluid, unconscious ease.

From Fragile to Anti-Fragile

Envision lifting a heavy suitcase, hiking a steep trail, or getting on the floor with your pets—not with a wince, but with the quiet confidence that your body is robust enough to handle the load.

From managing symptoms to moving forward

Stop spending your energy on appointments and ice packs. Reclaim that mental bandwidth to plan your next trip, launch your next project, or simply be present with the people you love.

This is the promise of Neurocentric Pain Care. It’s not about fixing a "broken" part. It’s about building a resilient whole. It is the difference between surviving your physiology and mastering it.

Pain Care Coach

I’m Mandy Ryle—Chronic Pain Specialist, E-RYT 500, CSCS, and Certified Nutrition Coach. For over a decade, I’ve helped hundreds of women move past pain and reclaim their strength through a science-based blend of pain neuroscience education, somatic movement, mindfulness, and progressive strength training. My mission is focused on women in perimenopause and beyond—because hormonal changes can magnify pain, stiffness, and fatigue. And I know from both personal experience and professional expertise that it doesn’t have to be your “new normal.”

As a Pain Care Specialist My Practice Prioritizes:

Find Out If this approach will work for you

I weighed 236 pounds and had difficulty going up and down the stairs in my own home without becoming breathless. My joints hurt and my back was sore most of the time. I wanted to lose some weight, and gain stamina and muscle strength again but I was so overweight I was afraid that I had waited too long. I’ve lost 50 lb (and counting), and several inches. My stamina is greatly improved and I feel better over all. I’ve also been able to drop two prescribed medications.

Deanna R.Strength Beyond Pain

I was beginning to believe that I’d have to live the rest of my life in pain. Mandy taught me so much about chronic pain and gave me the tools to help manage it. I’m a firm believer now that mind body and soul are all connected and equally important. I’m doing things again that bring me joy- working out, playing with my children and cooking - all things that were put on hold when I would experience a pain flare up. My quality of life has drastically improved"

Chris JMove Beyond Pain

As a result of the program, I gained wonderful and sustainable “tools" for managing my chronic lower back pain. First, Mandy is truly an expert in pain care management. I learned more from Mandy about pain than any doctor’s office I have visited and trust me I have visited many over the years. Next, Mandy provides daily homework and extremely responsive to each individual’s mobility level. Overall, I would highly recommend the program as it is life-changing!

Barb S.Move Beyond Pain

This program helped me to understand what pain really is, and just how complex it is! Throughout the process I found that the practices decreased my pain which helped me to trust the process, commit to the process and to trust my body too.I now have an understanding of pain and the tools to navigate pain when flares happen. The biggest benefit is that I am now so much more aware of my body. I’ve learned so much about not just my pain, but myself and what I am capable of. I’ve developed a mindfulness practice and finally have the tools to care for myself to manage my pain better. The lessons, practices and weekly group sessions are provided in a way that you can do things at your own pace while still holding you accountable for what needs to be done. It was helpful to have the daily reminders and accountability.

Lori BMove Beyond Pain

Somatic Pain Coaching for High-Performing Women: Stop Micromanaging Your Symptoms

When Movement Hurts, We Lose More Than Mobility. We Lose Trust.