143. Brains and Pains - Healing Chronic Pain with Deb Malkin

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Worldwide, the rates of chronic pelvic pain for women of childbearing age range from 14% to 32% Deb Malkin is a plus size, body positive, LCS certified life coach, massage therapist, movement enthusiast, and client zero of her pain recovery coaching work. She had only been taught that pain is related to issues in the tissues and was never taught the link between the brain, nervous system and the experience of chronic pain. Her mission has always been for people of all sizes, abilities and genders to feel at home in their bodies. She shares her story of chronic pain. The brain can continue and perpetuate pain long after the body has healed. Why is chronic pain everywhere? Does pain tell us lies or is it in how we interpret the pain that gets us in trouble? The role of fear and being able to feel. We talk about pain with sex and pelvic pain and tips for that issue. The “perfectionist personality” and suppressed rage and how it is involved with pain. The role of self-acceptance and body image and pain. The process of just being aware changes your brain. The “lazy detective”. “The brain talks to us in thoughts, emotions and body sensations” Deb Malkin CURIOSITY IS THE ANTIDOTE TO FEAR Recommended Book The Way Out by Alan Gordon https://amzn.to/35vybLY 1:1 chronic pain coaching program - www.debmalkin.com https://www.instagram.com/movewithdeb/ Podcast “Move With Deb” - https://movewithdeb.libsyn.com/ March’s Sponsor – Tabu Code YANB for 15% off of your intimacy kit at www.heytabu.com This Podcast is not approved for credit by CMEfy, however, you may reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and engage to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ via point-of-care learning activities here: https://earnc.me/EL95aG --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.
0:15.5	And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:26.0	Thank you. board-certified female urologist, Dr. Casperson. Hey friends, March's podcast sponsor is the amazing company, Taboo, T-A-B-U.
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0:58.0	Hey, everybody. I'm so excited today to have Deb Melkin with us. She is a LCS certified coach,
1:03.2	just like me, and her specialty is chronic pain. And for women who listen to this podcast,
1:08.8	who care about their sexuality, chronic pain and pelvic
1:11.6	pain and pain with sex is a huge issue. They think worldwide rates of chronic pain for women,
1:17.2	just of childbearing years, is 14 to 32 percent at any given time. So pain is real and it's
1:23.2	way more prevalent than we think it is. So thank you so much for joining us today.
1:27.7	You are so welcome. It is my pleasure to be here. And I know it sounds kind of silly to say
1:32.8	I'm excited to talk about pain, but I am excited to talk about pain. I know. You had said
1:38.9	because we were talking or you were writing about like your favorite thing to talk about is healing
1:43.2	chronic pain, helping people.
1:45.4	It's awesome. Can you tell us your story with pain and your journey and kind of how you got to this
1:49.8	point? So I am a fat person over 50 and I was having knee pain and that comes with this kind of
1:59.0	osteoarthritis diagnosis. Like I did get a diagnosis of osteoarthritis diagnosis.
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