About Me

Karen Hummel is a Women’s Chronic Pain Coach and Speaker. She is dedicated to empowering women chronic pain sufferers to reach beyond the pain to a more fulfilling and joyful life. Women from across the globe are connected through her website www.chronicpaincoaching.com.

Karen’s formal education includes a Masters Degree in Health Services Management and a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. Karen is an AFAA Certified Personal Trainer with over a decade of training experience and has served as a Wellness Manager for several large corporations. As a Wellness Manager, Karen provided employees with health education and coaching, including one to one and group support on stress reduction, fitness, nutrition, weight management, body image, and smoking cessation, as well as seminars and specialty classes.

Karen’s heartfelt desire to help women with chronic pain stems from her personal experience battling chronic pain for the last eight years. In 1998, after years of training to meet her fitness goals, Karen was seriously injured in an automobile accident and told prior to surgery she would almost certainly be a paraplegic. The avid health and fitness enthusiast refused to believe it, and after three surgeries was told by her surgeons, that had it not been for the muscle she had developed through years of exercise she would not have walked away.

Several years later, after years of excruciating pain, doctor’s visits, and medical testing, a piece of hardware from Karen’s original surgeries was found to be piercing the spinal canal. This had caused tremendous nerve pain throughout her spine and eventually the loss of feeling in her right leg. Another surgery was scheduled, but the chronic pain continued.

Karen has not let this stop her from her commitment to help other women chronic pain sufferers realize their pain does not have to poison their future, and is proud to be a testament to the importance of sticking to one’s goals by walking through the pain and fear. Her passion is to coach women, so they too can reach beyond the pain!