Living Well with Pain Café
Living Well with Pain Café
🌿About Living Well with Pain
Living Well with Pain is all about helping people who live with persistent or long-term pain find ways to take back control of their lives.
Rather than focusing only on pain itself, we explore how to shrink the part of life that’s about pain — and grow the parts that bring meaning, joy, and connection.
Many people living with pain find themselves caught in a cycle of frustration, fatigue, and isolation. Living Well with Pain helps to break that cycle through a self-management approach — encouraging people to discover practical tools, new skills, and small steps that make a real difference day to day.
We believe that:
🌸 You are the expert in your own experience of pain.
🌱 With support, information, and understanding, you can find your own best ways to live well.
💬 Sharing with others who truly understand can be life-changing.
🌿 Welcome to the Living Well with Pain Café
A friendly, monthly drop-in café for anyone living with the impacts of long-term pain.
We offer a social, welcoming, and safe space where everyone can be heard, supported, and encouraged.
☕ What to Expect
At our café, we focus on living well — not just managing pain.
Here’s what usually happens during our sessions:
💬 Peer Connection – Meet others who truly understand what it’s like to live with pain. Share experiences, ideas, and encouragement.
🧭 Learning & Growth – Each month, we explore one of the Ten Footsteps from the Live Well with Pain programme — learning new skills and finding practical ways to live better with pain.
🪑 Gentle Movement – Try simple, seated or standing exercises to help build confidence and ease movement.
🎙️ Guest Speakers – Occasionally, we invite inspiring speakers to share knowledge, tools, and stories.
❤️ Self-Care Focus – We can’t take the pain away, but together we can learn ways to make it a smaller part of life — and grow the parts that bring us joy, purpose, and connection.
🌸 Our Approach: Self-Management
“Self-management is about shrinking the part of your life that is about pain, and growing the other parts, so that pain no longer dominates.”
We don’t focus on what pain stops us from doing — we focus on what’s possible, what works, and how we can help each other move forward.
💕 Practical Details
🗓️ When: The Last Wednesday of every month
📍 Where: Your Voice Inverclyde Hub, 51 Hamilton Way, Greenock, PA15 1RQ
🕒 Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
💬 What People Say
“The most important part is being with others who understand.”
“It’s given me new ways to think about my pain — and new friends.”
🌼 Join Us
Everyone is welcome — whether you’re newly exploring self-management or have been living with pain for years.
Come for a chat, a cuppa, and a little hope.
