Back in Control Radio
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsDiscover how to conquer debilitating chronic pain by using a groundbreaking, self-directed approach pioneered by Dr. David Hanscom. His methods have been used by hundreds of patients to eliminate chronic pain and regain control of their lives.
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Flipping the Switch on Anger
June 09, 2021 20:00 - 26 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with semi-retired business owner Tom Sullivan. He describes how, after becoming seriously ill from sustained anger over an incident with a neighbor, he “flipped the switch” on his anger. He was able to calm his mind, get perspective on the situation with his neighbor and release his anger so he could heal. He shares how as a result of this crisis, he feels stronger, better able to manage his anger and able to use the energy he was g...
The Danger of Anger
June 02, 2021 23:00 - 25 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Tom Sullivan, a semi-retired business owner who had made a remarkable recovery from a decades long series of medical setbacks and intense chronic pain. He shares how he had to confront his “addiction to anger” to begin the healing process. Then he describes how recently sustained anger over an incident with a neighbor overtook him and tipped him from his happy and healthy life into ill health. Tom Sullivan is 67 years old, and semi- retired after...
How Chronic Threat Leads to Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness
May 26, 2021 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with physiatrist and pain management specialist David Clawsen, MD. He discusses how the immune response works and the toll it can take on the body over long periods of time. He explores the physiologic, genetic and emotional factors that govern the threat response. He explains how chronic threat in our lives, which continually activates our immune response, can lead to chronic illness and auto-immune disorders. Ultimately, he believ...
The Deep History of the Body’s Threat Response
May 19, 2021 20:00 - 26 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with physiatrist and pain management specialist David Clawsen, MD. He explains how the body’s many defenses against threats evolved from the cellular to the organism level. He details the redundant signaling systems the body uses to coordinate a threat response, and how the immune system provides both defense and healing / repair. Dr. David Clawsen is a Physiatrist, based in Seattle, with backgrounds in neurologic, cancer, spine and sports rehabilitat...
Helping Surgeons Thrive Beyond Burnout
May 12, 2021 20:00 - 31 minutes - 27.8 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Orthopaedic Traumatologist, Certified Professional Coach, and CEO/Founder of SurgeonMasters, Jeff Smith, MD. He discusses large and serious problem of physician / surgeon burnout and the principles his team uses to help surgeons avoid and heal from burnout. His approach is customized to the client, focusing on their specific challenges and goals, and creating behavior change that will help them thrive. Dr. Jeff Smith is a clin...
A Surgeon’s Personal Story of Burnout
May 05, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Orthopaedic Traumatologist, Certified Professional Coach, and CEO/Founder of SurgeonMasters, Jeff Smith, MD. He shares his own experiences with burnout, anger, emotional exhaustion and chronic pain that led him to become a professional coach and form SurgeonMasters so he could help other surgeons avoid and heal from physician burnout. Dr. Jeff Smith is a clinically active Orthopaedic Traumatologist, a Certified Professional Coach, and CEO/Founder...
Patient Drawings and the Art of Healing
April 28, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 26.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with world renowned surgeon and best-selling author, Bernie Siegel, MD. He discusses the relationship between emotions and physical health, and how fear can destroy the body if it is persistent. He shares stories that illustrate the insights that can be found in patient drawings that can help with understanding a patient’s emotional landscape and play a pivotal role in the healing process. He also expresses his belief that today’s p...
The Key Role of the Patient’s Story in Healing
April 21, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with world renowned surgeon and best-selling author, Bernie Sigel, MD. He shares stories that illustrate the importance of the relationship between physician and patient. He stresses the key role of understanding the patient’s life situation, challenges, motivations and fears to the healing process, and how patient drawings can often reveal important insights that will help them heal. Bernie S. Siegel, MD, is a well-known proponent of integrative and ...
Working Toward an End to Parental Alienation
April 14, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Lisa Goodpaster, founder of the Stephood Project and a Parental Alienation Survivor, Childhood Trauma Educator. She explains how parental alienation happens following divorce when the mother and father are unable to co-parent. This can create extreme anger in the affected children and result in the formation of deep triggers that lead to negative patterns of behavior that can last a lifetime. She discusses the work she and her ...
Finding the Cause and Cure of Her Chronic Pain in Childhood Parental Alienation
April 07, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 19.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Lisa Goodpaster, founder of the Stephood Project and a Parental Alienation Survivor, Childhood Trauma Educator. A child of divorce, she broke her neck, and suffered for years with over 22 physical symptoms and intense chronic pain. She shares that by reading Back in Control, going through the Hoffman process and working with somatic therapist Kendra Bloom, she discovered the roots of her suffering in her childhood alienation from both her parents ...
Thinking Pain Away with Hypnosis
March 31, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Lois Prinz, Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnotism trainer. She shares the approach she uses to help clients train their brains to create a better outcome when confronted with any type of pain. She explains that hypnosis is really self-hypnosis and her approach focuses on repetition of thoughts to help create change. This is done through sessions that include setting intentional goals, followed by induction and suggestions. Lo...
The Guided Mindfulness Path to Healing from Chronic Pain
March 24, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Lois Prinz, Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnotism trainer. She explains that hypnosis is a type of “guided mindfulness” that can be used as a shorter term intervention to help patients heal from chronic pain. She discusses the evolution of her approach to treating chronic pain and the addition of nutritional hypnotherapy to her practice because of its potential link to pain. Lois Prinz, Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnotism trainer, has over th...
Getting the Word Out About a Better Way to Heal from Chronic Pain
March 17, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dan Hindsley and Penny George, chronic pain sufferers who used a mind-body approach to heal from chronic pain. They share how they met and teamed up to launch the website www.mindbodymedicineinfo.org in January 2021. It is designed to help raise the awareness of clinicians in the UK about the mind-body approach to treating chronic pain and chronic illness. They discuss their plans for future projects to expand their efforts, i...
Taking Back Control of Healing from Chronic Pain
March 10, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Penny George and Dan Hindsley, based in Fife, Scotland and Lancashire, England, respectively. Penny shares her story of battling and overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Dan talks about his struggle with and recovery from severe sciatica and back pain for over a decade. They met (virtually) in mid-2020 after both participating in online recovery interviews with Georgie Oldfield and have joined forces to raise awareness of the mind-body approach t...
Clearing emotions to heal from chronic pain
March 03, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with psychiatrist Dr. Allan Abbass, founding Director of the Center for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Canada. Dr. Abbass shares details of his approach—short-term dynamic psychotherapy—to treating chronic pain which includes: helping patients become aware of the emotions they have around their physical symptoms; understand how these emotions impact their symptoms and behaviors; and help them to experience their emot...
Discovering the Linkages Between Emotions and Health
February 24, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with psychiatrist Dr. Allan Abbass, founding Director of the Center for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Canada. Dr. Abbass shares his personal experience dealing with chronic pain, how he studied the mind body approach to treating pain developed by Drs. Sarno and Schubiner, and the discoveries he made that led him to using short-term dynamic psychotherapy for the treatment of chronic pain. Dr. Allan Abbass is a Professor in the Faculty ...
Crushing Pain by Crushing Doubt
February 17, 2021 21:00 - 29 minutes - 25.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Dan Ratner, a nationally known pain psychologist. He shares details of his approach to treating chronic pain which includes: helping patients understand the emotions they have around their symptoms, articulate and challenge their doubts and getting them to learn they have the power to heal themselves. Dr. Dan Ratner is a nationally known pain psychologist, who uses a mind body approach to treating chronic pain. He speciali...
Dr. Dan Ratner - Finding the Confidence to Heal Himself and Others
February 10, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Dan Ratner, a nationally known pain psychologist, about his own experience dealing with chronic pain, and the discoveries he made that led him to a career helping others heal from their chronic pain. He describes the importance that the work of Dr. John Sarno played in the evolution of his own treatment approach based on a mind-body perspective. Dr. Dan Ratner is a nationally known pain psychologist, who uses a mind body approach to treating ...
Patient Self-Determination and Healing
February 03, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Jen Souders. She shares details of her approach to treating chronic pain which include: establishing a strong doctor patient relationship; understanding the patient’s beliefs and values; conducting motivational interviews; and focusing on helping patients build autonomy, competence and relatedness as part of their healing. She also discusses how traditional medicine might improve its effectiveness in treating pain by encour...
A Coaching Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
January 27, 2021 21:00 - 26 minutes - 23.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Jen Souders about the evolution of her career from anesthesiologist, to clinical practitioner specializing in addiction medicine and chronic pain treatment, and most recently to serving in a coaching capacity for individuals in Dr. Hanscom’s weekly group sessions. She discusses how the desire to work more directly with patients in the healing process led her to a focus on the bio-social-psychological aspects of treatment that values the patien...
Getting on the Path to Radical Relief from Chronic Pain
January 20, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 21.3 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Joe Tatta, author of the best-selling book Radical Relief, about the details of his approach to treating chronic pain. He uses a combination of patient education, mindfulness and Acceptance Commitment Therapy.He stresses the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and understanding the patient's values and motivations as part of the healing process. Dr. Joe Tatta is a global leader in integrative pain care and an advo...
Radical Relief l from Chronic Pain
January 13, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Joe Tatta, a global leader in integrative pain care and author of the best-selling book Radical Relief, about his 5 step framework for treating chronic pain based on Acceptance Commitment Therapy. He focuses on helping patients develop psychological flexibility as a way to change behavior and give up their struggle with pain so they can heal. Learn more by visiting https://www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com. Dr. Joe Tatta is a global lea...
The Essence of Illness
January 06, 2021 22:00 - 25 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom discusses the essence of chronic illness and an approach to understanding it as the body's response to sustained threats in our environment. He outlines strategies for treating it based on developing coping strategie that allow our nervous systems to cope effectively with these threats. He reiterates his beifef that if applied, these could eliminate much of the ineffectiveness of approaches used in mainstream medicine today. For more information, visit: http...
Demonstrating the Process of Mind-Body Pain Treatment
December 30, 2020 21:00 - 24 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson, a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in the treatment of pain. She explains the specifics of her approach to treating pain which include: understanding the patient’s background; getting the patient to talk about their feelings; developing a timeline that connects symptoms with feelings and events; and educating the patient about pain and how to control it. She demonstrates her proce...
Helping Patients Discover Pathways to Pain Relief
December 23, 2020 21:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson, a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in the treatment of pain. She discusses the evolution of her approach to treating mind-body pain, which began when she trained with Dr. John Sarno. Key to her practice are making the patient feel safe in their body, understanding the patient’s background and exploring the level of attachment the patient developed from their early childhood. For more information, vi...
A Process to Discover the Strength in Being Vulnerable
December 16, 2020 21:00 - 26 minutes - 23.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Robert Paris, CEO of Myelin Leadership International. He describes his “RENEW” process which is designed to help people feel more comfortable with being vulnerable. The process works by explaining how the brain works and how it affects their behavior. He then uses visual stimuli to help them tell their story, starting with childhood. This can help expose the hidden emotions and motivations that are buried. Finally, he has indiv...
Using Neuroscience to Become More Authentic and Effective
December 09, 2020 21:00 - 26 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Robert Paris, CEO of Myelin Leadership International. He discusses the principles of neuro-leadership which focuses on developing authentic leadership skills within individuals and teams. Key to the concept of authentic leadership are: understanding your motivations and stories first; getting comfortable with expressing emotions; and seeing that vulnerability is a sign of strength. Using these principles, teams can build trust and become more effe...
Helping Patients Unlearn Pain
December 02, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Howard Schubiner, Director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He explains the specific techniques he uses to help patients heal from chronic pain, including helping patients change the neural circuits that govern their experience of pain, and working with them to develop greater emotional awareness and the ability to express and feel their emotions rather than suppress ...
The Principles of the Mind Body Approach to Chronic Pain
November 25, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Howard Schubiner, Director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He discusses the principles behind his groundbreaking approach to treating chronic pain. Key to his treatment are the concepts of assessment to determine if the pain is structural and / or neurologic, predictive coding (how the brain encodes and processes pain), educating the patient about how pain is processed in the brain, e...
Helping People with Emotional and Physical Pain Feel Better Fast
November 18, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Serena Sterling, who trained in clinical psychology and is a certified life coach. She talks about the importance of developing rapport with her patients to learn about the issues and relationships in their lives that may be at the root of their chronic pain. She details her approach to treating chronic pain and shares a patient story to illustrate how her technique works. Serena Sterling earned her doctorate in clinical ...
How a 9/11 Trauma Led to a Career Healing Others’ Pain
November 11, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Serena Sterling, who trained in clinical psychology and is a certified life coach, about the evolution of her approach to treating chronic pain. She describes a neuro-emotional technique which uses signals from the body to help determine what feelings are being suppressed that might be at the root of the patient’s chronic pain. She also shares her story of healing from disabling chronic fatigue after personally witnessing the traumatic events ...
One Woman’s Quest to Create Awareness of Patient-Empowered Healing
November 04, 2020 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Georgie Oldfield, a leading UK physiotherapist. She shares her insights about the key factors in healing chronic pain and the importance of a patient-physician relationship based on trust. She also discusses the evolution of the organization she created to help clinicians and psychologists learn these techniques and spread awareness among patients about her self-empowered approach to healing chronic pain. Georgie Oldfield MCSP ...
Pioneering a Patient-Empowered Approach to Treating Chronic Pain in the UK
October 28, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 26.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Georgie Oldfield, a leading physiotherapist and a pioneer in treating chronic pain using a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach. She discusses her own story of overcoming chronic pain and how she developed an approach to treatment based on spending more time with and listening to patients to better understand what was happening in their lives. She shares how she started an organization – called SIRPA – to help train other clinicians and ps...
The Three Questions Every Patient with Chronic Pain Should Ask Their Physician
October 21, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. David Tauben. He shares his insight that the key to healing chronic pain is for physicians to understand the isolation of patients with chronic pain and how important it is for them to listen to their patients. Ultimately, he believes, they must realize that the patient is the expert with respect to their experience of chronic pain. He also discusses in detail the three questions that every patient should ask their physician...
Pioneering Patient-Centered Approaches to Treating Chronic Pain
October 14, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. David Tauben, a pioneer in treating chronic pain holistically, using an interdisciplinary approach. He shares how he developed his insights while working in the first pain medicine department in the country. He also discusses the barriers he has faced in creating a new pain curriculum based on the holistic approach for the next generation of physicians, and the successes his program has achieved in changing attitudes in the medical community t...
Building Stronger Family Connections to Promote Healing
September 30, 2020 20:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with internist Dr. Matt Lederman and his wife, family practitioner Dr. Alona Pulde. They discuss how family relationships trigger us the most, and how the reactions to these triggers can amplify the experience of pain. Through a process of empathic listening, trust can be built and the needs of both the patient in pain and their family members can be met and the process of healing can be accelerated. They illustrate the process of e...
Making the Connection to Healing
September 23, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with internist Dr. Matt Lederman and his wife, family practitioner Dr. Alona Pulde. They share their approach to healing through building stronger human relationships and connections. They explain that having to live in a state of “artificial harmony” can be toxic and negative for our health, because it requires constant vigilance and draws down our immune resources. Healing can be fostered when we learn to value human connection above all else. Dr. A...
The Three Levels of Consciousness in Healing
September 16, 2020 20:00 - 28 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Jake Eagle, a psychotherapist and founder of the Live Conscious community. He talks in detail about the three levels of consciousness that we go through on our healing journey. The first level is safety consciousness, where we achieve a feeling of safety from threat. In the next level, heart consciousness, we live in a state of gratitude and appreciation. In the third level, spacious consciousness, we are able to access a state ...
Using Language for Healing
September 09, 2020 20:00 - 25 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Jake Eagle, a psychotherapist and founder of the Live Conscious community. He discusses how patients dealing with chronic pain often see themselves as victims and the world as “acting” upon them. He works with them to change their language to the present tense and avoid praise and blame, as a way of reclaiming their personal power and making meaning in their lives. This, he believes, is an important step to connecting with others and healing. Jak...
The DOC App – the Inside Story
September 02, 2020 20:00 - 25 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Chris Dimock, CEO of Elation, an app development company. He provides an overview of the DOC app and the design elements that went into making the app flexible so that it can be personalized to each individual’s needs. He also describes the tools available in the DOC app, and how the app can be used as part of the process an individual follows to get free of pain and take back control of their life. For more information about th...
Applying Artificial Intelligence and Digital Coaching to Healthcare Problems
August 26, 2020 20:30 - 27 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Chris Dimock, CEO of Elation, an app development company. He discusses how his background in psychology, organization development and digital technology informed his passion for creating apps that use artificial intelligence and digital coaching to solve problems in healthcare. He explains how he is using principles of complexity science to tackle such problems as preventing physician burnout and now, in collaboration with Dr.Hanscom, chronic pain...
27 Surgeries Later . . . A Story of Resilience and Healing from Chronic Pain
August 19, 2020 20:00 - 17 minutes - 15 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Tom Sullivan about his car accident, surgeries and subsequent journey through chronic pain. After enduring 27 surgeries and trying treatments and medications that didn’t work, he discovered Dr. Hanscom’s book, Back in Control, and applied the DOC principles to cure his chronic pain. His is an incredible story of healing and resilience against very considerable odds. Tom Sullivan is 67 years old, and semi- retired after 25 years of owning and oper...
Patient Outlook and the Process of Healing from Chronic Pain
August 12, 2020 20:00 - 23 minutes - 20.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Geralyn Datz, a clinical health psychologist specializing in the treatment of pain. She shares two very moving patient stories of recovery from severe trauma and chronic pain that illustrate the importance of the patient’s outlook in the healing process, as well as the power of a patient-centered approach to treatment. Dr Geralyn Datz is a licensed clinical health psychologist in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. She also...
A Whole Patient Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
August 05, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Geralyn Datz, a clinical health psychologist specializing in the treatment of pain. She discusses her approach to treating chronic pain which incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT); functional therapies (e.g., physical therapy and yoga); psychological testing; assessment by a team of physicians; and listening to the patient and getting them to share their story. She also talks about the placebo effect as one example of the body’s abi...
A Patient Centered Approach to Recovering from Addiction and Healing Chronic Pai
July 29, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Dr. Mel Pohl, the Chief Medical Officer of Las Vegas Recovery Center. He shares his center’s approach to treatment which focuses on both pain and addiction. He explains that typically the physical component of addiction and pain is about 20% of the problem with the other 80% being the emotional component. His details his treatment approach which incorporates a de-tox protocol, listening to the patient’s story, group sessions an...
Deconstructing the Pain of Addiction
July 22, 2020 20:00 - 29 minutes - 26.2 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Dr. Mel Pohl, the Chief Medical Officer of Las Vegas Recovery Center, about the nature of addiction and its relationship to chronic pain. He explains that addiction is a disorder of the brain in terms of its response to a particular substance. He discusses the symptomology of addiction, and the pro-inflammatory nature of opioids which can actually result in patients who use them for pain experiencing more pain over time. He also talks about the i...
Empowering People to Heal from Chronic Pain
July 15, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutes - 20.1 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Becky Curtis, founder and CEO of the pain management coaching company, Take Courage Coaching. She talks about the techniques her coaches use in working with patients to help them heal, and the importance of building trust and motivation in helping them make forward progress. She emphasizes the key lesson she learned in dealing with her own chronic pain - what you focus on, you empower. After a car accident left her with severe ...
Finding the Courage and the Skills to Recover from Chronic Pain
July 08, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutes - 23.5 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Becky Curtis, CEO and founder of the pain management coaching company, Take Courage Coaching. She recounts the car accident that left her with a severe spinal cord injury and intense chronic pain. She discusses how she discovered approaches to personally manage her pain while going through a functional restoration program. And it was these techniques that led her to start her company to help other chronic pain sufferers control their pain and hea...
The Importance of Feeling Safe in Healing
July 01, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with professor of psychiatry and neuroscientist Stephen Porges about the polyvagal theory. Dr. Porges explains the transformative power of feeling safe to keep us healthy. Using clinical examples from the treatment of pain and trauma, he illustrates how the nervous system responds to cues of safety or threat in the environment to alter the body’s physiology and either promote or inhibit healing. He discusses how these responses act ...
A Polyvagal Approach to Understanding Disease, Pain and Healing
June 24, 2020 20:00 - 29 minutes - 26.2 MBIn this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with professor of psychiatry and neuroscientist Stephen Porges about the polyvagal theory. He outlines the important role played by the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system in governing our response to threats, whether it is from disease, chronic pain or other environmental threats. He also discusses the implications for treatment and why it is important to calm down the nervous system to promote healing. Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Disting...