96% of Drs Weren’t Taught About Pain: The Recipe for Relief with Dr. Rachel Zoffness

Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist, neuroscientist, and
author of Tell Me Where It Hurts -- and she's here to
dismantle the biggest lie medicine has sold us: that pain is a
purely biomedical problem requiring a purely biomedical solution.


Dr. Rachel unpacks how trauma turns the nervous system into a
pain megaphone, why the brain literally gets better at producing
pain the longer it practices it, and why loneliness is as
dangerous to your physical health as poor sleep or a bad diet.


This one is for every woman who did the surgery, took the pills,
and still woke up hurting. The roadmap exists. You just haven't
been given it yet.


Episode Overview:
(0:00) Intro/Teaser
(4:55) Why "Psychosomatic" Is a Dirty Word That Needs
Retiring
(8:48) The Big Fat Lie: Pain Is Not Just Biology
(10:46) Biopsychosocial 101: The Three Ingredients of Every Pain
Recipe
(13:48) Big Pharma, Back Surgery, and the $54 Billion
Reckoning
(28:12) How Trauma Turns Your Brain Into a Pain Megaphone
(30:44) Central Sensitization: Why Your Brain Keeps Practicing
Pain
(36:57) The Pain Recipe: How to Map Your Triggers and Take Back
Control
(45:58) Loneliness Is a Pain Amplifier (Here's the
Neuroscience)
(54:16) The Healing Science of Touch
(57:33) Emotions Need to Move: Swearing, Rage Rooms, and Trauma
That Gets Stuck
(1:04:26) After Party: What Landed and Why I'm Getting Her Back


Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://drstephanieestima.com/podcasts/ep471


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