Colleen Jorgensen speaks with authority, warmth, and practical clarity on chronic pain, nervous system health, movement, and the language of healing.
Invite Colleen to SpeakColleen brings nuance, lived insight, and evidence to each of the areas below. These topics work equally well for healthcare audiences and general public listeners.
Accessible, evidence-based explanations of how chronic pain works — and why the story most people have been told is incomplete.
What the latest research tells us about pain, recovery, and what is truly possible for people living with persistent symptoms.
How the nervous system learns, amplifies, and holds pain — and what we can do to support greater safety and ease in the body.
How movement — done wisely, with awareness — can restore confidence, reduce threat, and rebuild a trusting relationship with the body.
The profound impact of how we talk about pain — with ourselves, with practitioners, and in public health messaging.
How healthcare and movement professionals can bring better pain understanding into their clinical and teaching practice.
A selection of Colleen’s recent speaking appearances and podcast features.
D.A.R.E. to Heal: Becoming your own best expert when you have pain. Discover yourself to recover your health.
Watch → YouTube
In this episode you will learn the reasons people remain stuck in pain, the definition of pain, and how the link between pain and emotion can help resolution.
Listen → Brad Walsh Podcast
Colleen's journey from Athletic Therapy to overcoming spinal surgeries, inspiring a holistic approach to pain care.
Listen → UnWeaving Chronic Pain Podacst
Colleen explains the nervous system and its importance for health, particularly for those navigating endometriosis.
Listen → Aligned Womb, Aligned You Podcast
A discussion on why pain does not equal damage, why mindful language matters in teaching, and emphasizing play in classes.
Listen → The Pilates Exchange Podcast
Colleen offers a message of hope: pain is changeable. Learn about the interconnection of body, mind, and spirit.
Listen → The Mindset Game Podcast
You can do a lot to treat yourself and move from fearful to curious.
Watch → Lifeology
A resilient individual with an inspiring story of courage and acceptance.
Listen → YouTube
Communication and co-regulation with Colleen Jorgensen in the fit pro success series.
Listen → BuzzSprout
Are Painful Periods Making You Dread Your Cycle? Interview with Colleen Jorgensen ,D.O.
Listen → Spotify
How to Cope with Physical Pain - Conversation with Osteopath Colleen Jorgensen, D.O.
Listen here → Spotify
Discussion on communicating permission, exploration and play within pain care and trauma-informed practices.
Listen → Buzzsprout
The invisible nature of living with chronic pain while at the same time having it affect every aspect of life. The difficulty relating to people around us and how important it is as a patient to be heard.
Listen here → BuzzSprout
Connections between the breath and the nervous system and how we can quickly activate or calm the nervous system using the breath. We discuss how important it is to give yourself the space and grace to rest and allow the body to do the work to repair and heal.
Listen → Buzzsprout
The 3 hierarchical stress states + to hybrid states of the nervous system and why we need them for balance. Then we explore simple ways that we can get back to our social engagement system when we're feeling too activated and how to energize ourselves when we feel too calm
Listen → BuzzSprout
Our nervous system is designed to protect us at all times from all things and because of that it is connected to every system in our body. When we are suffering from an injury, chronic pain or illness, big t or little t trauma, chronic stress and anxiety it’s easy to forget just how important those connections are to our physical, mental and emotional health.
Listen → BuzzSprout
Speaker at the 35th Annual BMCA Conference.
Watch → YouTube
Answering common community questions regarding chronic pain and its management.
Watch → YouTube
Guest speaker for Holistic Journaling Ink. Listen to a pain science education nugget combined with a guided practice. - Shinzen Young’s Emotional Reactions to Pain.
Watch → YouTube
Tips on what you can do at home to help manage your pain during this time without access to your usual resources
Watch → YouTubeColleen does not lecture. She illuminates. Her conversations move between science and story, between clinical detail and lived experience, in a way that makes complex ideas feel accessible and genuinely hopeful.
Listeners and attendees consistently describe her as someone who makes them feel understood first — and then gently, skillfully changes the way they see the topic. She is direct without being blunt, evidence-based without being dry, and deeply human throughout.
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