What Happens With Chronic Pain?

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Chronic pain is its own animal. It's considered its own disease process. Over time, your brain gets more and more tuned in to the sensory messages coming from your body. With chronic pain, here's what happens. Have you noticed with the Yucalale, like eventually your fingers sort of know what to do? Yeah. Absolutely. Give me a thing. Oh, that's the best one. Yes.

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