The Body Knows the Way Back

Living with pain is never just physical.

It shapes identity, reshapes possibility, disrupts trust, and asks the body to speak in ways most people, including clinicians, aren’t trained to understand.

We’re always looking for women who are reshaping the meaning of healing and rewriting the story of pain itself, and today, we’re stepping into the world of someone doing exactly that.

Justine Feitelson is a Pain Coach and Movement Specialist based in San Diego, California.

Through her company, Resilient Warrior Coaching, and through her podcast, It’s Not in Your Head, she is changing the way pain is treated, spoken about, and lived with, not from a distance, but from the inside out.

When the System Doesn’t Have the Answers

Justine began her work in the same place her clients begin: inside the medical system, looking for relief that never seemed to fully arrive.

She is not just supporting people with chronic pain; she is living it too.

Traumatic brain injury.

CRPS.

hEDS.

A spinal cord stimulator.

Years of navigating specialists, diagnoses, treatments, and the empty space left when the traditional path ends.

She discovered what so many patients eventually face: after the tests, the surgeries, the procedures, and the protocols, there’s a cliff.

And beyond that cliff is a quiet expectation that patients should simply cope.

But the body doesn’t cope.

The body tries to speak.

And in that gap between what medicine could offer and what her life required, something began to shift.

She saw that chronic pain isn’t just a symptom, it’s a story.

A relationship.

A language.

And most patients have never been taught how to understand it.

So she created exactly what she needed, and what so many others needed too.

Pain is Not in the Mind but Mind Matters

Justine now works with complex pain patients, the people often overlooked or misunderstood: CRPS, hypermobility, fibromyalgia, neurological disorders, central sensitization, spinal cord injuries, and amputations.

She coaches 1:1, leads group programs, creates DIY courses, and educates inside the medical field itself.

Her work bridges a space that has been ignored for too long: supporting people once the clinical pathway ends.

She focuses on lifestyle medicine, movement patterns, and the body’s own capacity to change, teaching skills that patients can take with them for life.

Her mission is both simple and radical: To give people back control.

To show them their bodies are not broken, they are brilliant.

And to challenge the outdated narratives that pain is imagined, exaggerated, or unsolvable.

Building a Business While Living the Story

Entrepreneurship is rarely linear, but building a business while living with constant pain is another level of resilience.

There were seasons of burnout.

Moments of exhaustion.

Times when the work felt heavier than her capacity.

And because her niche is deeply specific a small percentage of people doctors often avoid working with it took time before the business gained traction.

But she stayed.

She listened.

She refined, reshaped, and rebuilt.

And over time, the work found its rhythm.

Patients found her.

Clinicians noticed.

The message landed.

Today, she continues expanding, improving systems, automating the customer journey, and refining her offerings so she can support more people without sacrificing her health.

She is exploring SEO, ads, and broader online visibility to reach more patients who are desperate for direction, people who have heard “there’s nothing left to try” far too many times.

What she offers is not just support.

It is a possibility.

The Return: What Her Story Teaches Us

At Reignelle, we are drawn to founders who don’t just build businesses, they build meaning.

And Justine’s story shows us what happens when someone refuses to let pain be the end of the narrative.

She teaches us that:
The medical system may offer treatment, but healing requires ownership.

Pain may narrow a life, but purpose expands it again.

What is misunderstood is not unfixable; it is simply waiting to be redefined.

Justine is reshaping what care looks like, what pain means, and what people deserve.

Through her lived experience and her professional expertise, she is making an invisible world visible and giving people language for something they have carried in silence for far too long.

Her story is not just about pain.

It is about power.

If you want to learn more, listen deeper, or simply feel less alone in the experience of pain,  you can find Justine here:

👉 Instagram: @resilientwarriorcoaching