Lara founded The Sage Practice: MindBody Empowerment (helping people in pain rewrite what's possible) in 2020. Living with chronic pain is something she understands personally. 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 coach & teacher, as well as resident expert at Curable in somatic tracking and voice for those who have 'structural' in addition to 'neuroplastic' symptoms. Her advocacy in this field is her mission -- after all, she does not want her decades of pain to go to waste if it can help others soothe their own suffering to find joy again. For more somatic trackings, as well as courses and 1-1 or small group coaching opportunities: thesagepractice.com