Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist. And this

is Homecoming, a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself. While I will provide

weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this podcast is not the same as personalized therapy.

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Welcome home co-journers. I'm glad you're here for another episode. And I'm so excited that we

are joined by a special guest, Dr. Jennifer Kelly, who is both a past president of the Georgia

Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association. Her area of expertise is in

health psychology. And on today, we're going to talk about pain management. Welcome Dr. Jennifer.

Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm delighted to be here.

Oh, thank you so much for being with us. And the first question, which is just a basic question,

is what is pain? Oh, my goodness. So that's a very, very good question. Well, you know,

when you think about pain, you know, that there's something, pain is a signal that there is

something wrong with your body. It's supposed to be a signal that there is something physically wrong

with your body. Now, when you talk about pain, what you could talk about physical pain, you could

talk about emotional pain. But in this case, I'm really specifically talk about physical pain.

So the pain is a signal to your body that saying that something is wrong with the body. And so

that, if you think about it that way, and it's a sign that there's something wrong, and you need

to pay attention to it. Okay. So that is just the first basic attendant of what pain is.

And I know pain can occur anywhere in the body. Are there some areas that are more common for

people to have pain in? Well, I think so. What do you think about? And I'm going beyond just

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