Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain. I'm Alan Gordon and I'm Alonzev. Today we're going to introduce a technique that uses positive sensations to heal chronic pain. As always, we're excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with Curable. Curable is an app for treating chronic pain, and they have tons of great exercises

and techniques to help you on your path to healing. You can check them out at curablehealth.com.

So last episode we talked about somatic tracking, a way to teach your brain to interpret pain through a lens of safety.

Sematic tracking could be really effective, but it's just one technique.

There are a number of ways to overcome pain.

Yeah, just like there's usually more than one way to do something.

I was actually thinking about that last week.

I was hanging out with my daughter, she's seven and she loves unicorns.

Who doesn't? Yeah, who doesn't? She's a really big fan. And so she says, mommy bought me an

inflatable unicorn. Will you help me blow it up? And so my first thought was, why did mommy buy you

an inflatable unicorn? We do not need more unicorns in this house. But my first thought was, why did mommy buy you an inflatable unicorn?

We do not need more unicorns in this house.

But my second thought was, I want to be a good dad.

So yes, of course, I will help you inflate this unicorn.

So I get out my bicycle pump and I hook it up to the unicorn and I start pumping. Apparently the volume of the thing is like,

you know, the equivalent of a blimp because it took me so long to try and inflate this thing.

So my daughter's helping me. She's very sweet. But let's be real. I mean, she's seven.

She's, you know, does like a few pumps and then it's my turn again. So I'm probably doing like 98%

of the inflating of this thing. In the end, I think it takes us like a full hour to inflate this

thing. Yeah. So an hour's gone by. She's thrilled. It's fully inflated now. She's bouncing

around the living room. I'm literally lying on the floor just exhausted And, but also patting myself on the back.

Like, I'm father of the year.

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