Welcome to the #RunPainFree podcast! Today, Coach Jessica Marie Rose Leggio gives you a how-to guide on trusting your body again after getting injured. She serves it up the only way she knows how, with tough love. Enjoy! Are you running scared? It is all too common for people who have encountered an injury to be very trepidacious when they start to run again. That's ok; it's natural to feel that way. You're injured; you know what it is like to try to get through daily life with a running-related injury. In sum, it sucks. So you need to learn from it and do things differently.  Unfortunately, people trying to avoid getting injured reach for a whole range of commercial "solutions." Be it a new pair of shoes, braces, tape, compression shorts, or worst of all, advice from an Instagram certified coach with a great marketing team. Unfortunately, all these things are band-aid solutions and will ultimately end up hurting you. Sorry, that just how it is.  "You have all the tools you need in your body to run without injury pain. Leaning on the billion dollar industry is what is going hurt you." The #RunPainFree verdict: Stop looking for love in all the wrong places. If you want to run injury-free, you need to start looking inside.  Pain is feedback We've said it before, and we are going to hammer it home again, not all pain is harmful, but all pain is feedback from your body.  If you don't listen to this feedback and instead slam a couple of Advil's, or slap on a brace to get you through your run, you will injure yourself.  If you want to run for life, you can't be running in pain every time you step out the door. Don't be a fool; stop reaching for the quick fixes; you need to get your house in order and start building your foundations.  RunPainFree related podcast: Especially for Runners Who Live in Pain  Difference Between Pain And An Injury As an athlete, you are going to feel aches, niggles, and zingers. Running is a total body sport that requires your organs and muscles to perform consistently for hours. Running is demanding, so it's natural to feel soreness as your body recovers and adapts to increased training loads. But these training-related aches and pains should never become an actual injury.  Schedule Your Consultation With Jessica Today Despite what you likely have read, it is when you can no longer run because the pain becomes too much that you are injured. Everything up to that point is a red-flag of an injury on the horizon.  However, the silver lining is that everything is fixable, as long as you overcome your fear by putting in the work. Losing trust in your body Once you are injured, your fear becomes heightened because you are in protection mode. But if you lose trust in your body, everything goes downhill. That's why you see those Frankenstein runners held together by bandages, stability sneakers, orthotics, and braces. They are placing their trust on external fixes rather than trusting their body.   "I can fix anything, but the biggest thing I will give back to an athlete is trust in their body."  You need to give your body a foundation to grow. If your foundation cracks, it doesn't matter what you strap to your body; it will never operate correctly.  The problem with external solutions is you never address the core of your injury.  And boom! You are going to encounter even more questions as your body stops working as a rhythmic unit. Some muscles will be over-developing, while others are underdeveloped, and then hey presto, you have dysfunctional joints.  Sidebar: #RunPainFree Academy has a Top 10 Running Injuries Program. It talks you through what causes injuries and how to correct them. But most importantly, it teaches you to identify the red flags so you can address any problem before they become an injury.  Are you even injured? We're not saying you are not in pain, but you often think