143. Brains and Pains - Healing Chronic Pain with Deb Malkin

Published: March 9, 2022, 1 p.m.

Worldwide, the rates of chronic pelvic pain for women of childbearing age range from 14% to 32%\nDeb Malkin is a plus size, body positive, LCS certified life coach, massage therapist, movement enthusiast, and client zero of her pain recovery coaching work. She had only been taught that pain is related to issues in the tissues and was never taught the link between the brain, nervous system and the experience of chronic pain. \n \n Her mission has always been for people of all sizes, abilities and genders to feel at home in their bodies.\nShe shares her story of chronic pain.\nThe brain can continue and perpetuate pain long after the body has healed.\nWhy is chronic pain everywhere?\nDoes pain tell us lies or is it in how we interpret the pain that gets us in trouble?\nThe role of fear and being able to feel.\nWe talk about pain with sex and pelvic pain and tips for that issue.\nThe \u201cperfectionist personality\u201d and suppressed rage and how it is involved with pain.\nThe role of self-acceptance and body image and pain.\nThe process of just being aware changes your brain. The \u201clazy detective\u201d.\n\u201cThe brain talks to us in thoughts, emotions and body sensations\u201d Deb Malkin\nCURIOSITY IS THE ANTIDOTE TO FEAR\nRecommended Book\nThe Way Out by Alan Gordon https://amzn.to/35vybLY\n1:1 chronic pain coaching program - www.debmalkin.com\nhttps://www.instagram.com/movewithdeb/\nPodcast \u201cMove With Deb\u201d - https://movewithdeb.libsyn.com/\nMarch\u2019s Sponsor \u2013 Tabu\nCode YANB for 15% off of your intimacy kit at www.heytabu.com\nThis Podcast is not approved for credit by CMEfy, however, you may reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and engage to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)\u2122 via point-of-care learning activities here: https://earnc.me/EL95aG\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices