After a misdiagnosis of a medical emergency in 1991, Lara required over a dozen surgeries that saved her legs but left significant nerve damage and decades of pain.  Learning about the new neuroscience of chronic pain in 2019 transformed her life, inspiring Lara to change her career. Formerly a sociology professor, Lara is now a mindbody empowerment teacher, as well as a resident expert at Curable in somatic tracking and structural symptoms. The mission of her life is to turn her decades of pain into something that helps other people soothe their suffering and find joy again.