The Forest Floor
 16th Feburary - 10th May 2025
A 12-week program for people living with chronic pain who are ready to feel safer in their bodies, steadier in daily life and less afraid of their symptoms
Chronic pain doesn’t just hurt - it quietly shrinks your life and takes your sense of agency.
Over time it forces you to wait - for answers, appointments, treatments - taking away your permission to live again. It rewrites your identity, leaving you feeling uprooted - like the ground you once trusted has disappeared beneath your feet.
You hope something outside of you will change, while feeling increasingly disconnected from your own body and unsure what to do when symptoms flare.
The Forest Floor exists to give you that power back, by helping you understand your system and work with it to rebuild a sense of steadiness and trust inside your own body again, so you can reconnect with your life again.
“I will take this course with me for the rest of my life.”
This is perfect for you if
You've been uprooted by chronic pain and:
- You feel like your nervous system is always on high alert
- You don’t trust your body or yourself anymore
- You’re exhausted from managing symptoms or trying to control potential triggers all the time
- You’ve tried nervous system and mindset tools, mind-body work, or neuroplastic pain education, but struggled to integrate it into real life
- You don’t feel like yourself
- You want depth, not hacks
If you’ve been told there “nothing else to try” or that stress “makes it worse” (without anyone explaining what that actually means) you are in the right place. The latest pain neuroscience shows us that there is so much more we can do to help ourselves.
What changes when you do this work?
This is an invitation into a different relationship with your body and your life.
Over 12 weeks, people often experience:
- Feeling safer inside their body, even when symptoms are present
- Less fear around flares and sensations
- More steadiness and capacity in day-to-day life
- Greater trust in themselves again
- A reconnection to identity beyond “the sick one”
- Moments of joy and meaning returning - without waiting for pain to be gone
For many this can help turn down the volume on symptoms and reduce the impact of flares.
Client Experience
“The work we did on neuroplasticity and rewiring my brain have had a huge impact on how I deal with chronic pain in my life. I now have strategies to help me cope, even in the acute phase of my attacks, by truly understanding that even the worst of pain is transitory. It is a huge win for a mind that lived most of the time in fear of the next attack. It helps me feel grounded." - Client with chronic migraineÂ
What The Forest Floor Includes
A 12-week guided container (February - May 2026)
Weekly live group calls (90 minutes)
Teaching, reflection, nervous-system-informed group coaching and live Q&A/discussion
Three private 1:1 sessions with Lily
Deep, personalised support to apply the work to your nervous system, pain patterns, and life
(On weeks with 1:1 calls, there is no group call)
Weekly audio trainings
Grounded, evidence-aware teachings you can absorb without overwhelm and each includes reflection prompts and practical integration guidance
Telegram as the main container
Ongoing support, community, reflection threads, and space to integrate. This is where the work lives to help support you in real time
A small and carefully held group
Maximum 10 participants - because nervous-system work requires a safe and connected container
The goal of this program is not to make you reliant on support, it’s to help you leave with skills you can trust and return to.
The live calls, audios, and community are there to teach, guide and integrate - so these tools become part of how you live. The support here is about building capability, not creating dependence.
The Core Pillars of the Work
This program is a unique blend of pain neuroscience, nervous system regulation and mindset coaching, brought to you through the lens of joy and sorrow coexisting and supported by Lily’s lived experience of chronic pain. All supported by the lastest pain science and research.
Together we will look at ways to support your system and increase your capacity by:
1. Understanding the pain-brain connection
Learning how overprotection, prediction and threat responses shape pain - without blame or reductionism - so that you feel less afraid of your body and more equipped to respond when symptoms arise.
2. Rebuilding safety and reducing hypervigilance
Tools to lower background tension, widen capacity and help the system stand down and that you - so that you spend less time scanning for danger and more time feeling grounded, present and at ease in your body.
3. Rewiring thoughts, fear and the inner dialogue
Softening the narratives that increase threat - without toxic positivity or bypassing -Â so that your inner voice becomes a source of steadiness and support rather than pressure, fear or self-blame.
4. State-shifting and emotional regulation
Practical ways to move out of high-threat states when pain, stress, or overwhelm spike -Â so that difficult moments feel more manageable and you can return to a sense of calm and control more quickly.
5. Reclaiming identity, confidence and direction
Chronic pain can shrink your world but this work helps you grow it again - from the inside out -Â so that your life becomes about more than managing symptoms and you can reconnect with meaning, joy and who you are beyond pain.
Client Experiences from Lily's Last Course
“I will take this course with me for the rest of my life.”
“Thank you Lily. This course has been incredibly insightful and empowering.”
“Thank you Lily - this is life changing information.”
“This is a game changer!”
Why this approach works (and why it’s different)
Modern pain science shows us that pain is influenced by threat, safety, attention, memory and nervous system state - these are all levers we can work with.
When your nervous system has been under threat for a long time, it becomes overprotective. It amplifies sensation, scans for danger and braces for pain before you’re even aware you’re doing it. The Forest Floor works because we reduce the load on the system, rather than trying to overpower it.
We work across all layers that influence pain:
- The nervous system and threat response
- Attention and hypervigilance
- Language, narratives, and fear loops
- Emotional state and capacity
- The body as a source of safety - not an enemy
This is deep, science-backed and compassionate work that allows real integration to happen.
But it's not for you if:
- You’re looking for health hacks or a quick fix
- You want someone to tell you what’s “wrong” with you
- You’re not willing to engage with your inner experience
- You’re dealing with an acute injury or a systemic illness where pain is driven by active disease processes (for example Lupus or MS)
This program is for people who are ready to stop waiting for rescue and start rebuilding a sense of agency, steadiness and trust inside their own body. You need a willingness to engage with your system differently - and be open to support while you do.
Why is the group so small?
 The Forest Floor groups are capped at 10 people because:
- Nervous systems need safety to change
- Depth work requires attunement
- We are supporting integration - not just content consumption
Feedback from Lily's last course
Investment
ÂŁ1,497 for the full 12 week program
or 3 monthly payments of ÂŁ499
Super Earlybird:Â ÂŁ1,197 (save ÂŁ300!)
or 3 payments of ÂŁ399 per month
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If you're wondering...
“What if I still have pain at the end?”
Then this work is still for you - becuase the goal isn’t just symptom reduction.
The goal is to empower ourselves to reconnect with a life that feels safer, fuller and possible again - even with the uncertainty of symptoms.
Ready to step onto The Forest Floor?
If you sense that this is the next right layer of support - the next right step for you and your body…
I’d love to welcome you in.
Join The Forest Floor nowWhy I do this work
Hi - I'm Lily, I spent years navigating chronic pain and the grief, fear, and hypervigilance that comes with it. My life felt small and unpredictable, and I didn’t believe joy was available to me until things changed.
Through pain neuroscience, nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, and the deep work of changing how I related to myself, I rebuilt my internal safety - I stopped fighting myself and my life began to open again.
Now, as an ICF-certified resilience and mindset coach, I support others in doing the same. My approach blends science and soul: pain education, state-shifting tools, mindset work, and the belief that joy and sorrow can coexist. That even when pain is present, you can feel more grounded, more capable, and more you.
This group program is everything I have learnt in 15 years of navigating chronic pain and rebuilding my health. It is all I will I'd had over those years.Â
