661: Rachel Zoffness | Managing Pain In Your Body and Brain
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Rachel Zoffness (@DrZoffness) 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.
What We Discuss with Dr. Rachel Zoffness:- Pain lives in the brain, not the body (which is why amputees often report sensing it in limbs they no longer have).
- The overlap between physical and emotional pain, and why they co-occur 100% of the time.
- How the "pain dial" in your brain works: what turns it up, and what turns it down.
- The ways in which trauma, anxiety, and depression amplify pain.
- Why pain medicine is broken and how we can fix it.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.7 | Pain is one of the biggest stressors on the human body. |
| 0:05.3 | Like moving cross country is stressful, |
| 0:07.6 | and death of a loved one is stressful. |
| 0:09.7 | But being in pain day in and day out is a huge stressor. |
| 0:14.2 | So not only are we facing pain, |
| 0:16.4 | but our brain is in this state of fight or flight emergency. |
| 0:19.7 | And we know that amplifies the pain alarm. |
| 0:21.9 | So it's just so important for people with pain to know |
| 0:25.0 | that part of what's happening for them |
| 0:27.3 | is that their brain has become extra sensitive, |
| 0:30.0 | and it is alarming when it doesn't need to. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:38.6 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, |
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| 0:42.0 | of the world's most fascinating people. |
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