How Can I Heal My Pain by Making My Brain Feel Safe?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Alan and Alon explain how making your brain feel safe deactivates chronic pain. Alan talks to Laura, a pain sufferer who's been in "danger mode" for many years. Due to her past experiences (getting bullied as a child) as well as the way she treats herself (pressure and anxiety), her brain feels very unsafe. Alan guides her through a somatic technique that calms her brain and puts it in "safe mode." Finally, Alan and Alon explain how you can use this technique to make your own brain feel safe, and overcome your pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain. I'm Alan Gordon.
0:05.0	And I'm Alonzev. Today we're going to talk about a really effective way that you can make your brain feel safe in order to overcome your pain.
0:13.0	As always, we're excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with Curable. Curable is an app for treating chronic pain,
0:20.0	and they have tons of great exercises
0:21.7	and techniques to help you on your path to healing. You can check them out at curablehealth.com.
0:27.2	So before we dive in, I wanted to let you all know that next month we're going to be doing
0:32.8	our first ever video training on the Tell Me About Your Pain Facebook group page.
0:38.1	So basically, Alan did a session with a woman with chronic shoulder pain, and he used a brand
0:42.5	new technique, and by the end of the session, her pain was gone.
0:45.9	And this is my favorite session we've ever gotten on video, and it's the first time we're
0:49.7	showing it.
0:50.7	And I'm really optimistic that this new technique could help you all with your own pain.
0:55.3	And I'm excited that you guys get to see what Alan and I look like. Oh yeah. They're very handsome.
1:00.2	Anyway, we're going to be doing the training on March 17th at 6 p.m. Eastern time. If you're not able
1:05.6	to catch it live, don't worry. We're going to leave it up on the page for a few days. So if you're not a member of the Facebook group yet, just go to Facebook and search for Tell Me About Your Pain Community and join.
1:17.1	So as Alan mentioned, this episode is about chronic pain suffers who struggle with feeling unsafe.
1:23.5	And that's a topic that resonates with me because growing up, my mom was like that.
1:28.6	She constantly was worrying, constantly feeling unsafe and nervous.
1:34.3	You know, I remember crossing the street with her when I was a little kid and she would hold my hand so tightly that it would like, it would like hurt my hand, you know?
1:41.9	And she was always, you know, worrying, whenever my dad was late,
1:46.2	she would say, she would look at me and she would say, do you think something happened?
1:50.4	Oh, terrifying. Yeah, it was really terrifying. But what's really silly about it is that my dad was
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