She Danced on Broadway. Then Chronic Pain Took Everything — Until She Rewired Her Brain | ft. Ashleigh Di Lello Heal Thy Self w/ Dr. G #469

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Episode Description Your body isn't betraying you. It's been trying to reach you for years — and it's been screaming because you stopped listening. Ashleigh Di Lello is a brain coach and creator of Bio Emotional Healing — but she didn't arrive here through academia. She arrived through four years of fighting for her life as a teenager, a failed surgery that stole her Broadway career and her ability to walk, nerve pain in nearly ten areas of her body, and a night on her bedroom floor when she finally ran out of ways to keep trying. What she built from that breaking point is one of the most embodied frameworks for chronic pain and nervous system healing Dr. G has come across — because she didn't just study it. She became her own guinea pig and got her life back. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why the brain creates pain as a protective mechanism — and how your life experiences, not just your injuries, determine where and how intensely you feel it • Why people who do everything right — the protocols, the diets, the biohacking — still can't heal, and what's actually missing from the equation • How to begin rebuilding trust with a body you've been at war with, and why compassion isn't just emotional — it's neurobiologically required for your brain to change If you've been told your scans are clear but the pain is very real, or you've tried everything and still feel stuck — this episode is the missing piece. Find Ashleigh: Website & Free Brain Body Blueprint: https://ashleighdilello.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleighdilello/?hl=en Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:26 - Meet Ashleigh Di Lello: Brain Coach & Creator of Bio Emotional Healing 2:35 - Hot Seat: Why Do So Many People Feel Stuck in Pain? 8:11 - Ashleigh's Story: From Dancing at 7 to Fighting for Her Life at 13 11:40 - Broadway, a Failed Surgery & Losing Everything Again 13:16 - The Night on the Bedroom Floor She Almost Gave Up 16:05 - The Turning Point: "I'm Going to Figure Out How to Flip It Back" 19:28 - Why Pain Is About Perception As Much As Protection 25:21 - Why Doing Everything Right Still Isn't Enough to Heal 33:28 - Does Your Body Trust You? The Two-Way Relationship You're Missing 36:26 - Healing the Grief Your Body Has Been Holding For You 41:39 - Where to Actually Start: The First Step Toward Healing 46:26 - The Daily Gratitude Practice That Rewires Your Brain 51:38 - The Rabbit Study That Proves Love Changes Your Chemistry 55:19 - What Is Bio Emotional Healing & How to Work With Ashleigh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I didn't think anything could be harder than nearly dying.
0:03.0	And while I was so grateful I wasn't dying, honestly, living in unrelenting nerve pain in nearly
0:09.5	10 areas of your body is the worst type of hell.
0:13.6	There's no escape.
0:14.6	In 2016, it's at the height of my professional career.
0:17.4	I have been on Broadway eight shows a week after being on film and television
0:21.4	and it was like, I made it, right? It's like this moment, pinch me moment, wow, this is so incredible.
0:26.0	And then everything was taken again. And honestly, this is when I had the worst, most desperate
0:31.9	moment of my life. Pain is the number one protective mechanism in the nervous system. For so long we thought pain was only an indication of something wrong in the body.
0:41.3	And now we know through neuroimaging and studies that something wrong,
0:44.3	like a damage, an injury, tissue, cancer, virus,
0:49.3	those are only one of the components that caused the brain to create pain.
0:53.3	All of the doctors and experts had told me
0:55.4	is, along with these chronic pain diagnoses, was, well, your nervous system flipped a switch into pain.
1:01.4	And so that night, I thought, well, I'm going to figure out how to flip it back. And the very next
1:04.7	morning, I started studying neuroscience because I knew the brain is the creator of all pain. And I
1:10.6	knew that my life's work was to create this process, not just for me, but for other patients.
1:15.6	So I became my own Gini Pig and got my life back and eight years later I've been helping clients do the same.
1:20.6	This is actually something I usually only share with my clients, but I feel like I want to share it here.
1:25.6	My guest today almost died, not once, but twice.
1:29.3	And what saved her life is not what you might think. It wasn't just another surgery, another
1:33.3	medication. It was actually realizing that the pain in her body was deeply repressed trauma,
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