Many people believe pain is just physical- meaning it’s your body. What most people don’t understand is the role of the brain in physical pain and neuroplastic symptoms- physical symptoms that are produced by the brain not the body. In this video I review a paper from 2020 (link here) that looked at the role […]
Please join me live tomorrow September 10th at 10am Pacific 1pm Eastern time. I will be talking about about the mind-body relationship on the TMS Roundtable Recovery. I am grateful to host Doc Tovah and co-host Jeannie Kulwin for having me on. If you are interested in joining the broadcast live or watching later here […]
One of the well-studied mental-emotional constructs with chronic pain and symptom disorders is called pain catastrophizing. It is a cognitive distortion where one thinks for the worst when it comes symptoms. Here I lay out some of the strong evidence which shows the negative power of catastrophizing and why we need to shift for healing. […]
Emotions are undercurrents running in our bodies. Many times emotions sit underneath thoughts, physical symptoms, behaviors and actions. Research indicates we are feeling at least one emotion 90% of the time during the day. Some research also shows many people (upwards of 50%) with chronic pain and other medically unexplained physical symptoms have what’s called […]
So important to distinguish the cause of physical symptoms in the body. What many people don’t realize and I didn’t either until I started specializing in this field, is that the brain itself can produce the very same symptoms the body can produce. We have to look at a person’s full history to understand where […]
I spoke with Dr. Rebecca Kennedy about her transition from traditional primary care to the mind-body practice she runs today. Slowly, gradually, the medical world is starting to wake up to the mind-body connection and the role the brain, stress, emotions, and trauma play in the production and persistence of somatic symptoms. I hope you […]
I shared a few videos about this concept which you can check out below. It’s true what we resist will persist and what we can embrace we can erase. Especially when it comes to emotions. And emotions are one of the main causes of unexplained medical symptoms in the body. The key thing to being […]
Check out this video to understand that your diagnoses may not be chronic fatigue, migraines, IBS, or chronic pain, or any other medical diagnoses. It may be one or both of these official diagnoses I lay out here. How many of your health practitioners have given you either of these diagnoses? My guess is not […]
I went over in this video how anxiety is one of the largest producers of somatic symptoms in the body. Most people equate anxiety with a classic panic attack, but they don’t realize anxiety can show up in your body in 100’s of different ways. Check it out to learn more.
Today I review a 2021 research paper (link here to paper) which shows how your attention is associated with fear conditioning and then chronic pain. Attention is one of the 4 categories I address with people suffering from chronic somatic symptoms. I call the 4 categories B-E-A-T which relates to your behaviors, emotions, attention, and […]
