I appreciate your take on a holistic stance for chronic pain. Traditionally I've been more of a science-based person, but am recognizing as I age there may be more to the world than that.

Sorry to hear that your girlfriend also experiences chronic pain. I hope you are able to support or uplift her where you can in a way that doesn't drain you.

The holistic approach can be very helpful. With the way our minds and bodies operate from within the same vessel, there definitely are interactions that can be used to improve. I hope it will work well for you. Do take care that you don't feel guilty for having pain. You can influence it, but it is not your fault.

(My girlfriend has chronic pain, I have some experience unfortunately. The guilt is a part we could definitely do without.)

My go to is Wikipedia. I know an awful lot of people do not rate it (and it does have issues) but you may get some good links to primary sources, which in turn can give you ideas to pre-prepare.

I'm being referred because traditional meds for my type of chronic pain do not work. So we are looking to address pain in a non-medication sense (kind of a holistic approach, I think).

So questions could be about how to deal with the pain. How to implement the things you know to be helpful. How to keep heart when the pain is overwhelming. How to deal with people who don't understand. They will probably ask about what you want to get out of the treatment.