Why is 'No' the Most Important Word for Healing Pain?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alan and Alon talk to Christie Uipi, Director of the Better Mind Center, who recently participated in a groundbreaking study on the treatment of chronic pain. Christie explains how they treated the patients in the study and what the results mean for the future of chronic pain. Christie also talks about her own struggles with chronic symptoms (knee pain, wrist pain, stomach issues) and how she overcame them. Alan, Alon, and Christie discuss the power of 'No' - a word that's difficult for many chronic pain sufferers. And finally, Christie reveals what she thinks is the single most important thing for overcoming pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain.
0:03.7	My name is Alan Gordon.
0:05.3	I'm the director of the Pain Psychology Center.
0:07.8	And I'm Alon Ziv.
0:09.8	Today we're going to talk to Christy Weepie, an amazing pain therapist who participated in a groundbreaking new pain study.
0:17.0	Christy's going to talk about her experiences treating patients, her own journey in overcoming pain,
0:23.2	and the single most important component of recovery.
0:26.5	As always, we're excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with Curable.
0:31.2	Curable is an app for treating chronic pain, and they have tons of great exercises and
0:35.8	techniques to help you on your path to healing.
0:38.3	You can check them out at curablehealth.com.
0:42.3	Now, before we start talking to Christy, we have some news, and that is that we're going to be ending the Tell Me About Your Pain podcast.
0:52.3	I know, I know we're really sad about it too, but to be ending the Tell Me About Your Pain Podcast.
1:00.1	I know, I know we're really sad about it too, but when we started this podcast, you know, almost two years ago, we set out to explain a certain set of ideas and techniques that we know
1:07.7	can help people get out of pain.
1:09.4	And we feel like we've done that.
1:11.4	You know, we didn't want to get to the point where we're just kind of repeating the same
1:15.2	things over and over like one of those TV shows that Jump the Shark in season five,
1:20.1	but they just keep going.
1:21.2	You know, we wanted to be like breaking bad, where we get to go out, you know, before
1:25.2	getting repetitive.
1:26.7	Right. We didn't want to be like one of those athletes that hangs on like two years too long
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