#757 Chronic Pain - Vanessa Blackstone

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Blackstone is a therapist specializing in chronic pain and the Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center. She outlines the success she’s found in the Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) modality. She also shares her personal journey to this work, growing up in foster care and learning to manage her chronic pain. Look for her book, The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook.

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Website: www.blackstonewellness.com

Center: www.painpsychologycenter.com

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0:55.2	Welcome to episode 7557 with my guest Vanessa Blackstone.
1:00.6	If you're new to the podcast, welcome.
1:04.0	Make yourself comfortable.
1:07.2	This podcast is a place for honesty about all the shit bouncing around in our skulls i am not
1:14.4	a therapist in this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling i
1:20.1	hope you find it to be a place um ofasionally enlightening.
1:30.2	Sometimes funny.
1:32.6	Sometimes sad.
1:35.7	But always interesting.
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