Why Chronic Pain Is In Your Head | Ep. 661

Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist, international speaker, medical consultant, educator, and author of The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life.

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What We Discuss with Dr. Zoffness:
0:00 - Intro
0:06 - Why stress & anxiety give you stomachaches
12:27 - How your brain processes pain
17:53 - Heal your physical body with your mentality
19:50 - How COVID influenced pain
22:03 - The kid who couldn't be healed... until he met Dr. Zoffness
26:46 - How your emotion change pain volume
46:05 - People with chronic back pain actually don't have bad backs (failed back surgery syndrome)
53:34 - 3 ways to change pain volume
58:15 - Taking medicine to reduce mental pain (taking Tylenol for a broken heart)

Pain is one of the world’s greatest mysteries, but it doesn’t need to be. Every human will experience pain at some point, whether it’s back pain, the pain of childbirth, or living in an aging body, yet few of us are ever taught that pain is the result of an overlap between physical and emotional factors and needs to be treated as such.

On this episode, we’re joined by pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness (author of The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life) to discuss how pain works and why we have it; the ways in which trauma, anxiety, and depression amplify pain; why some of us are more sensitive to pain than others; and how we can alleviate the root causes of pain instead of seeking short-term relief from addictive painkillers that have given rise to our current opioid epidemic. Listen, learn, and enjoy!

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