96% of Drs Weren’t Taught About Pain: The Recipe for Relief with Dr. Rachel Zoffness

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

You've been told your pain is either a structural problem or it's all in your head. Dr. Rachel Zoffness, pain psychologist and author of Tell Me Where It Hurts, is here to dismantle both lies. Pain is never just biological -- it's biopsychosocial, and that distinction is the difference between chasing symptoms forever and actually healing. Watch the full episode at https://youtu.be/Sc0RY-6zpHQ

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0:00.0	Finish this sentence.
0:02.1	Most women in chronic pain are not broken.
0:05.5	They're blank.
0:06.6	They are stronger than they think they are,
0:08.9	and they've been led down a false rabbit hole about what pain really is and what healing requires.
0:15.7	I love it.
0:16.7	That's so great.
0:18.0	Yeah, that's the mic drop.
0:19.4	Thank you.
0:19.9	Okay, cool.
0:29.7	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie. It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie, Seema. If you have ever been told that the solution for your pain is either
0:36.3	a pill or a procedure, And if you have been dealing
0:39.6	with pain of any kind, especially chronic pain, then this episode is going to flip that
0:45.9	on your head. My guest this week is Dr. Rachel Zoffinus. She is the author of Tell Me
0:52.1	Where It Hurtz and was trained at Brown University
0:54.7	where she majored in human biology, brain and behavior, and conducted her honors thesis on
0:59.4	pain neuroscience.
1:01.0	She earned a master's degree from Columbia and a second master's at SDSU and a PhD in clinical
1:06.4	psychology at UCSD.
1:07.9	She completed additional pre- and postdoctoral training at NYU,
1:11.9	Rockefeller University, and Mount Sinai Hospital. I think my favorite part of this conversation
1:17.4	was the conversation around the healing power of touch. So I want you to listen for that in the show.
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