What Sucks Most About Pain?

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The thing that sucks most about my job is the stigma associated with psychology and pain. 96% of medical schools in the United States and Canada have zero, dedicated compulsory pain education. Who doesn't deserve to understand pain? It's ubiquitous human experience. We are all going to have it. None of you are going to get away with not having pain. So we might as well know what it is and know what to do about it.

PAIN. What is it? Where does it come from? And how can we hurt less? Which hurts more, a kidney stone or heartache? Why does chronic pain persist? Can we turn down our pain dials? To answer these huge questions, pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness enthusiastically explains the brain, pain and how to retrain it. She is an unabashed neuronerd and a ray of hope in a field that is misunderstood, neglected and under-explained. A true life-changer of a person.

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Her Pain Management Workbook on Bookshop.org and Amazon

Her website, which has a resource page with a ton of free info: zoffness.com

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris