After a misdiagnosis of a medical emergency in 1991, I required 17 surgeries that saved my legs but left significant structural challenges and decades of pain. The Curable app was my introduction to the empowering new world of pain science education. The changes I saw in myself were profound enough that I left my career as a sociology professor so that I could help other people in the work that has been so transformative for me. It is gratifying to now partner with Curable, the very people that started me on this path, and to be on their panel of Experts, giving talks, teaching classes, facilitating groups, leading live guided somatic tracking practices, and hosting live Q & A’s. It is wild to give talks at the same hospitals where I have been a patient. There is nothing like witnessing people discover their own agency and build back their self trust. When they begin to recognize how strong, resilient, and wise they really are, they even look different to me. Even on the other side of the Zoom screen, they seem taller, lighter, freer. I know we have truly gotten to a good place when a person who has been serious for weeks suddenly smiles and laughs for the first time. Honestly, what I am most proud of is that in building The Sage Practice, I get to be with people in that sacred moment of transformation: they often show up feeling desperate and helpless and leave empowered and motivated to get back to really living. Many clients say that in the end they legitimately feel *thankful* toward the pain. I know what they mean. I feel the same way: it was, after all, the beginning of my awakening.