EP 268: Tess Driessens — Tools for Chronic Pain, Learning to Move Effortlessly, & Three Sentences That Will Change Your Life

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Tess Driessens is a professional climbing coach and lives with chronic pain. We talked about getting diagnosed with five herniated discs from a cliff jumping accident, tools for chronic pain, why hope can be negative, finding true acceptance, meditation, Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais Method, finding happiness within, why love is the key to life, and three sentences she tells herself every day. You can work with Tess at motion-coaching.be

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:07.6	My guest today is Tess Dresens. Tess is a professional climbing coach. She had a back injury when
0:14.5	she was young and had five herniated discs in her back and developed chronic pain and has
0:19.9	been dealing with it for a very long time.
0:22.3	And she's figured out how to manage it through nutrition, through visualization, through
0:27.9	meditation, through working on stress and practicing self-love and finding happiness within
0:34.4	herself and all these beautiful things. This was a really cool episode.
0:39.1	This is a heartwarming one. I hope you enjoy it. Here's Tess Dresens.
0:45.7	Cause, cast, cast. No one can do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it. I want to kick things off where every good climbing conversation should start, which is with the North Pole.
1:03.0	I think you might be my first guest who's been to the North Pole and I find that really intriguing just because it's one of those things that, you know, obviously you hear about, but it's just really hard to actually imagine
1:14.9	what that's like. So I'd love to hear how that opportunity came about and what it was like
1:21.4	to visit the North Pole. Yeah, cool. My, thanks for asking that question because it really, yeah, was a huge experience in my life that definitely changed me as a person.
1:35.5	So I got this opportunity actually from the government in Belgium.
1:40.5	So they were doing a kind of project and they wanted to stimulate the choice for studying
1:48.4	science in people that go to the university. And so they kind of started a program with all the
1:58.0	high schools in Belgium and you could participate to a lot of these selection
2:02.6	procedures. And then they would choose six 18-year-olds out of the 200 or maybe. And then you could
2:12.1	join a scientific expedition to the North Pole, which was organized by the University of Antwerp, actually.
2:20.3	And there would also be a professor joining and some students from the university,
2:24.3	from veterinary studies, biology, science.
2:29.3	And I was directly attracted to the idea of, yeah, of joining that expedition.
2:38.8	I remember as a kid, I was always fascinated by Alaska, like these mountains with snow.
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