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The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Hosted by: Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, and psychotherapist who has dedicated her life and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain and conditions.  She is the author of MIND YOUR BODY, and the creator of...

Episodes

S3 Ep43: Life With and Without the Baggage of Chronic Stress and Anxiety

Season #3 Episode #43

Anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and worry are natural and normal and many of us have them in spades. But let's consider, today, what it would be like to live each day doing the work necessary to quiet them. This is what I...
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S3 Ep42: Total Recovery From Autoimmune Disease and SO Much More with Mouse

Season #3 Episode #42

Mouse was a private client of mine many moons ago. When we met, she was in a wheelchair. Her doctors had her on a bevy of medications for autoimmune diseases like Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis (they weren't sure...
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S3 Ep41: The Kind of Gratitude that Affects Your Nervous System

Season #3 Episode #41

Gratitude is a verb. We need to learn how to live it. The nervous system is desperate for our input of calm, peace, and well being. The kind of gratitude we discuss today on the pod is the kind that brings us there....
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S3 Ep39: REAL TIME HEAL - When Emotions Turn Into Pain: Migraines and Neck Pain with Heather

Season #3 Episode #39

Heather was in a "bad mood" for months, even years. She had taken a job that was way too much pressure, and wasn't practicing self-care. One day on vacation, the occasional migraine that used to be nothing to Heather...
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S3 Ep40: RELATIONSHIPS and the Way They Affect Our Pain

Season #3 Episode #40

The hardest work in life is around relationships. They bring out the best but also the worst in us, as they challenge us to constantly look at ourselves, our roles, and our triggers. Join us today as we revisit this...
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S3 Ep37: Moving from Actual Fight/Flight/Freeze to Chronic Migraines with Kristin

Season #3 Episode #37

Sometimes when we are actually in crisis, we are free of chronic symptoms because the brain and the nervous system are actively engaged in saving our own lives or someone else's. When the crisis is alleviated,...
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S3 Ep38: How and Why Big Unacceptable Feelings are Channeled Through the Body

Season #3 Episode #38

The number one question I get is always around the brain and nervous system and WHY WHY WHY it somehow feels "safer" to be sick than to feel the darkest of our human emotions. Today we revisit an episode from the...
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S3 Ep35: Internal Family Systems, TMS, and JournalSpeak with Phil De La Haye

Season #3 Episode #35

What a fun and great learning experience to sit down with Phil De La Haye. Phil is an Internal Family Systems practitioner with a particular interest in the mindbody connection and chronic symptoms. He recovered from...
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S3 Ep36: Triggers, Why They Happen, and How We Get Free

Season #3 Episode #36

Being triggered is different than being uncomfortable or annoyed. When we are truly triggered, we are brought to a place in the past when we were traumatized in some way (Big or little t) and we lose ability to...
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S3 Ep33: The Neuroscience of Chronic Pain: POTS, Interstitial Cystitis, Fibro, CFS and more with Gigi

Season #3 Episode #33

Gigi is a brilliant TMS mind who lived through 10 years of chronic illness with no idea what was wrong with her. Diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome at the age of 14, it never made sense to Gigi that her myriad...
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S3 Ep34: A Deep Dive into Migraines with Abigail

Season #3 Episode #34

Migraines, as with all TMS equivalents, are a tool of the brain and nervous system to distract and protect us from that which feels impossible to handle - our daily stressors and repressed emotional worlds. This is...
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S3 Ep31: Success! Pelvic Pain, IC, Back Pain, and Anxiety with Shivani

Season #3 Episode #31

Some TMS stories are so textbook they make me want to laugh and cry at the same time. This is true for Shivani's chronic pain journey. She had TMS in childhood (didn't we all?) and then it moved from pelvic issues to...
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