S5 E4: Don't Let Conflict Make You Sick

The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Nicole Sachs, LCSW

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

4.9 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cure for Chronic Pain podcast with me, Nicole Sacks.
0:08.1	You are here.
0:13.1	Hi, everyone.
0:14.3	How are you today?
0:15.4	This is Nicole, and you have reached my podcast, The Cure for Chronic Pain.
0:19.6	Welcome to it.
0:23.0	Hope today is a good day.
0:29.9	Hope you are hanging in there. You know, not an easy time to be alive, but I guess when is.
0:41.2	So today we're going to talk about a really interesting and timely topic, which is people, for lack of a better word,
0:47.2	and how to handle ideas and opinions that are different than your own, how to deal with triggers and conflict, how to deal with the inherent conflict in ourselves between authenticity, being self-expressed,
1:00.1	feeling like we can say what we think and feel and attachment or belonging or being
1:06.3	in the flow of a community or a family, et cetera.
1:10.4	I just think these are really timely and very
1:12.8	triggering topics that can add a lot of emotions into that reservoir that gets repressed. And if it,
1:21.2	of course, reaches maximum capacity, we end up with a lot of TMS flares. And so it just seemed
1:26.6	like a really good topic for today,
1:29.8	right now, as we find ourselves. And speaking of right now, this podcast is airing toward the
1:35.9	end of September 2025. And if you are listening to it when it drops, there are a few days
1:41.5	left to take advantage of the fresh start fall sale on
1:46.2	everything on the website, nicolesax.com, that you can purchase, meaning everything except membership
1:53.2	and coaching is 25% off, meditations, retreat recordings, courses, even our practitioner
2:00.1	training, all of that is 25% off just for a few more days.
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