Ep 271. Anxiety and Chronic Pain/Symptoms with Christie Uipi
Not Another Anxiety Show
Kelli Walker
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Join Kelli and guest Christie Uipi as they discuss how anxiety and chronic pain/symptoms go hand in hand, creating an anxiety-pain cycle, and how we can support ourselves in breaking that cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today as guest, Christy Weepie. Hi, Christy. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi, Kelly. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:22.7 | I know I'm really glad to have you here today. Before we dive into our chat, which I'm very excited for, |
| 0:28.2 | do you mind if I share a little more about you with our listeners? I would love that. Thank you. |
| 0:33.3 | Wonderful. Christy Weepy is the executive director of the Better Mind Center and a psychotherapist |
| 0:39.7 | specializing in the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. She lectures nationally |
| 0:45.1 | on psychotherapeutic interventions to treat chronic pain and is committed to cross-disciplinary |
| 0:49.9 | collaboration between mental health and physical medicine. Christy is also a recovered chronic pain |
| 0:55.5 | patient herself. The healing process was so profoundly transformational for the quality of her life |
| 1:01.4 | that she has dedicated her career to supporting others through their recoveries. And you can find |
| 1:06.7 | Christy at bettermind center.com. So, Christy, can you start by telling us a little bit about how chronic pain and anxiety go hand in hand? |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, I would love to. |
| 1:22.6 | So to answer this, I think it's helpful to know what pain is. Pain, all pain, comes from the brain |
| 1:31.9 | 100% of the time. So yes, I'm a psychotherapist that treats pain from a psychological point of |
| 1:37.8 | view, but pain 100% of the time is generated by the brain. Even if you say break your leg or stub your toe, your leg and your toe have no ability to create |
| 1:48.3 | the sensation of pain, right? |
| 1:49.8 | It's the brain that generates pain sensation and then the brain that sends those sensations |
| 1:55.1 | down to the injured body part. |
| 1:58.6 | So all pain comes from the brain. |
| 2:00.7 | There's three little take-home messages that I want people to understand about pain. The first So all pain comes from the brain. There's three, there's three little take-home messages |
| 2:02.7 | that I want people to understand about pain. The first is all pain comes from the brain. The second one is |
| 2:06.4 | pain is a danger signal. The purpose of pain is to protect us. It alerts us to threat. And yes, |
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