How Do I Get to the Root of My Pain?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Living with chronic pain means living with chronic worry. But it's actually this fear, frustration, and despair around the pain that keeps your pain signals activated. Even once you know how destructive these thought patterns are, it’s so hard to keep your mind from going there. In this episode, Alan and Alon explain why your brain keeps pulling you to pain, and how you can break this habit. Alan talks to Chris, a chronic pain sufferer with so much fear and frustration around his pain, he can think of little else. Alan teaches him a new technique to calm these thoughts, cutting off the fuel source for his pain. Then Alan and Alon describe how you can use this same technique to overcome your own pain.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain. I'm Alan Gordon. And I'm Alonzev. Today we're going to talk about
0:08.3	why your brain is always pulling your focus back to pain and how to break free of that habit.
0:14.4	As always, we're excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with Curable. Curable is an app for
0:20.3	treating chronic pain. And if you like
0:21.9	our approach to pain, we think you'll like curables, exercises, and techniques. You can check
0:27.4	them out at curablehealth.com. So as you guys know, I record a lot of calls with pain suffers for
0:34.8	this podcast. And a couple of weeks ago, I talked to a woman named
0:38.0	Sue, and Sue had as much fear and preoccupation around her pain as anyone I've ever seen.
0:44.2	And that's saying something. Yeah. I was trying everything to help reduce her pain,
0:48.0	somatic tracking, leaning into positive sensations, and nothing was working. And then, almost
0:53.9	magically and kind of surprisingly,
0:56.3	we tapped into something and within five minutes Sue was like a different person. Her pain was
1:02.3	way down. Her fear was way down. It was seriously the most amazing turnaround from like terror
1:08.9	to triumph that I've ever seen. Wow.
1:11.2	Anyway, we're not going to play that clip on this episode.
1:13.8	What?
1:14.4	You're such a tease.
1:15.9	I know.
1:17.2	Because it's kind of off topic.
1:19.3	But we did want you guys to hear it.
1:21.0	So we're putting it up on our Tell Me About Your Pain community Facebook page.
1:26.0	That's right.
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