It is critical for you, as a healthcare provider, to realize that each patient's pereption of their pain is unique no matter what the diagnosis. As well, you can relieve your burden of conern about reducing your patients' pain by knowing where they are in their motivation to change; by realizing that there isn't one main solution to eliminating your patents' chronic pain and that there are many alternatives to prescribing opiate medications; and by knowing that you can empower your patients to take more responsibility to use different strategies and to self-manage their pain levels over time.