S4 E32 - The Vertigo and Anxiety that Brought Jonah to His Knees (and helped him to Wake Up)

The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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When Jonah Primo, host of the in-app podcast Work in Progress on the WAKING UP app contacted us, Lisa and I were elated. We are long time fans of WAKING UP and its founder, neuroscientist Sam Harris, and we were enthusiastic about sharing space with such a like-minded person. But that was just the beginning. Jonah's own pain story was stunning, and we quickly jumped on the chance to have him on our podcast to tell his tale of complete despair to recovery using the mindset and tools of MindBody medicine. After being a totally health and athletic 27-year-old, Jonah found himself so swallowed by a laundry list of symptoms that he quite literally struggled to walk. As he became skeptical of the medical model to cure his pain, he turned in our direction and the rest is history. Join us for a striking tale of recovery from some of the most common (yet most terrifying) symptoms we hear about - vertigo, migraines, anxiety, and the dreaded Long Covid. I know you will get so much out of what we discuss. Much love! xoxo n.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cure for Chronic Pain podcast with me, Nicole Sacks.
0:07.0	You are here.
0:12.0	Hello, hello, how's everybody today? This is Nicole and you have reached my podcast, The Cure for Chronic Pain.
0:20.0	Welcome to it. So as we continue rolling
0:24.2	through the end of the summer and preparing what I'm really excited to share with you, which is going to be
0:32.4	the premiere of Season 5 of the Cure for Chronic Pain podcast, which will coincide with the beginning of fall,
0:39.3	early September. We are bringing you some of our best episodes that tell some really fantastic
0:46.5	stories and will be accompanied by never before released videos on our Breakawake membership that
0:53.8	you will be able to watch.
0:55.8	And today we are going to feature a conversation I had
1:00.2	about a year ago I'd say with Jonah Primo,
1:04.4	who went through quite the long COVID slash chronic fatigue
1:08.9	slash unexplained really intense symptoms and was in a really,
1:16.4	really bad place coming from a healthy, active, athletic, unlimited life into a story
1:25.5	that you'll hear where he was literally crawling on his hands and knees,
1:31.8	trying to get back to his home after he had walked down the driveway. So these are the stories
1:38.4	that I like to highlight because I never want anyone out there no matter how much they feel unique or they feel
1:48.8	disabled or they feel bereft because they don't have a solution or they don't yet understand
1:55.7	this solution. I never want you to feel alone because the bravery and the honesty that happens when people come share their stories here is so stunning.
2:05.9	So Jonah was really wonderful to come and share his story with us.
2:11.1	And I'm going to bring it here for you today.
2:14.7	And I just want to tell you also that I recorded a podcast today with Phil De LaHaye,
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