I'm back from my trip to The Galapagos Islands and had a experience of knee pain that I couldn't wait to share with you! I guess that's an upside to being a pain coach, everything is content? Well I'm sharing with you Part 1 - Navigating Disappointment. Have a listen! There will be more coming next week.

Phil de la Haye is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and coach with a particular interest in the mindbody connection and chronic physical symptoms. He has a degree in Psychology and a background in education. Phil has his own history of chronic pain recovery and he’s passionate about supporting others through their own process of healing. He and I have a fantastic conversation that can only happen when two people who speak the same language and share some overlaps in our experiences...

I LOVE A METAPHOR! They're some of the best ways for us to convey meaning and embody understanding without a lot of confusion. Enter my own Drama Club vs. Debate Club as a way to help our mindbody navigate the metabolically taxing and cognitive overload of uncertainty. We all have survival strategies, habituated ways of relating to our internal and external sensory world. Our brain has a meaning making mandate which it pursues through the nervous system and cognition to understand the world...

This week's episode is another practice. This time it's a follow along repeating sentence relaxation + repetition practice called Autogenic Training. I'm reading to you a script I discovered in a great overview document from the VA. I also share the research about this practice showing that it's a very effective self led activity to help with pain + fear reduction. Which of course are the two main issues with neuroplastic pain.

This week's episode is an interview that I did with Natasha and Maria from the podcast Making Work Fun. I was so excited to talk to them because so often my clients have chronic pain in conjunction with stressful jobs, or find the idea of trying to work while also experiencing chronic pain impossible. Let's face it, work often has a lot of pressure, demands both internal and external, as well as complex social landscapes that can be challenging to navigate. How we deal with our physical body...

Did you know that you can train your brain waves? Did you know that different types of brain waves are useful for different types of focus activities and learning. Since the research behind chronic pain explains it as a type of learning done by the brain, we can use a brain wave entrainment practice to teach the brain a new way of experiencing attention and focus. The work of neuroscientist Dr. Les Fehmi and his wife, therapist Susan Shor Fehmi, explores practices to help us reach a state...

My hypnosis teacher Melissa Tiers and I geek out about the brain and how hypnosis and coaching through metaphor can have profound benefits for the body. Melissa Tiers is the founder of The Center For Integrative Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Ethical Coaching Collective. She is also a multi-award-winning author, coach, hypnosis trainer, and a three-time recipient of the International Medical and Dental Association's prestigious Pen and Quill Award for her books. Melissa was featured in...

Today's episode was inspired by an experience I had with a client in which we reframed triggers as cues for action or behavior. Even if the cue is to check in with herself and offer herself some love and care when she was having a hard time. When we framed trigger=avoidance. Cue=Curiosity, her body's energy and her orientation to what was happening shifted in a positive direction. In this podcast I take it one step further and explore the foundations of cue conditioning and how learning...

Maureen is one of my coaching besties. She and I talk all about emotions, and the importance of getting 1% curious about your pain as a step towards healing. Maureen shares her process for recovering from 6+ years of back, leg + hip pain. I think this episode is a wonderful example of the power of having support and loving friendship. We could talk forever but I did you a solid by keeping this to an hour.

This podcast is inspired by a number of conversations I've had with clients and online where I've witnessed a lot of frustration and distress that all had the same, "I know this stuff" variety. People who are like, I read The Way Out. I've taken a course with Dr. Schubner. My back pain went away for years after reading Dr. Sarno, but I can't do the same thing with X symptoms. Or I should know better. This is totally understandable and one of the most insidious obstacles to healing. It's the...

Today I'm sharing an article in the Los Angeles Times from Nathaniel Frank. It is about a new study that is published in the Journal of Pain, basically saying that a majority of neck and back pain comes from nociplastic or neuroplastic causes. I'll link to the article and the study and I'm sharing my takeaways from the article and how you can apply this data to get curious about your pain in a new way that can change everything. I'm sharing my parts of my conversations with clients and what...

Today I lean into the story of my pain recovery, a recent experience having two days of activity in a row, and then I share 3 fantastic mindbody self directed neuroplasticity skills for you to practice and integrate into your life. And my mash up of hypnosis and somatic tracking. Learning how to attend to the sensations AND create change using subconscious hypnotic visualization. Enjoy!

Calling all sh*t talkers! I see you, I am you! Here's my best offer to you for feeling more better more of the time.... GENTLE NEUROPLASTICITY! Or if you want to say it like Bond, it would be neuroplasticity, gentle neuroplasticity. 🤩 Let's dive into the embodied process of inviting in gentleness to your self growth process.

My client Joan and I talk about her experience in one on one coaching, using the tools of thought work, somatic skills, and the benefit of a gentle neuroplasticity approach. Note, what I didn't make clear in the episode is that when I was coaching Joan on her pain, she was also pursuing medical attention for her issue. Our work helped her dial down the fear + anxiety and redirect her mind so that the pain was not at the forefront of her mind or not experienced at all. She went to her Dr. to...

This episode I share with you three important parts of rewiring the habit of worry. I discuss the hypnogogic and hypnopompic states of entering and leaving sleep and how they are times when our subconscious is very suggestible. So in those times, it's very important to explore our internal coping strategies of what we are saying to ourselves, and I make suggestion on how to notice, change and repattern your habitual patterns around worry to help you feel more better more of the time.

Somatic Tracking goes by many names and has had many incarnations. In the 1983 book, Taming Your Gremlin, Rick Carson teaches about the extraordinary power of simply noticing. Sound familiar? Today I'm leading you through an experience of somatic tracking with a strong sensation, an ice pack. And you can do your own version. Getting good at the skill of simply noticing can create huge shifts in your physical and emotional life. Listen as I lead you through the exercise and some examples...

I'm so thrilled to present this fun and informative conversation with Coach Callie on her journey of healing from Fibromyalgia as well as her incredible insights as an experienced Mind Body Coach. She's the queen of somatic tracking with positive sensations. I hope you enjoy her kindness and caring approach to doing the work of brain training and hope building.

I'm so excited to bring this conversation to you, my audience who may not be familiar with the innovative and groundbreaking work of adrienne maree brown. I don't think we even scratched the surface on the idea of a "social body" but I do think this conversation is full of nuance, warm hearted, radical thinking about how to be connected both internally within ourselves and externally to the world around us. We may not all agree on the right course of action for the events that are happening...

I'm sharing with you some of my favorite researchers, educators, and pain helpers quotes about neuroplastic pain or mind-body symptoms. I know that when we understand what's happening with pain we can experience our bodies differently and then feel differently. I hope there's something that really hits that aha button for you.

This is a little quicky conversation with my friend and client Emily about her lasting experience of doing hypnosis work with me before visiting her family for Thanksgiving. I am sharing this with you because I believe small changes have big ripple effects and if you're feeling stuck around this time of year I created a holiday hypnocoaching opportunity for the month of December just for you!

Hey we are talking about CURIOSITY! You might be getting the cue that it's my favorite word, concept, prescription, process, skill, homework.... Curiosity is the underlying mechanism of somatic tracking, the cornerstone practice of pain reprocessing. In this episode I share some of my thoughts and a little practice about this foundational piece of my mindbody coaching. Let's embody change together.

Dr. Joan Chan and I had a great conversation on her podcast The Other Human in the Room about getting curious about chronic pain. IWhich is also the title of a workshop we are doing for healthcare humans next week on Tuesday November 28th, 2023. If you want to join this workshop, I'm offering it at 50% off the original fee. 50% off code is FIRSTFIVE https://www.joanchanmd.com/learnstore/p/getting-curious-about-chronic-pain-workshop

Welcome to season 2 of The Curiosity Cure podcast from Pain Coach Deb. It's going to be an incredible season of interviews, insights and expansion of understanding the mindbody experience, pain recovery and how YOU can feel more better in the body you have today. This is my kick off in my off the cuff style with an intro or a reintro to me and what my work is all about. I'm so glad you're here!

In this podcast I discuss my recent pain and emotional overwhelm, due to many current life stressors including the war in Israel + Palestine. I share my process of awareness, attunement, tending and orienting towards life and connection while navigating this flare. Content note, brief mention of suicide.