How do we embrace the notion that our story has value? If we think that others have it worse than us, we often don’t get the care and attention we need and deserve. If we present with urgency, we risk being perceived as exaggerating. What if we embraced these pain messages and treat them as if they were a part of you? Pain IS a part of you. It’s a way to tune in and refine your body’s needs.

In today’s episode, we learn about how important it is to listen to the smaller signs that come up and how to be an advocate for your health with our guest, Paige.  Paige is an acupuncturist and contemporary movement artist who explains how her pain got her attention. Paige shares her stories about how holding stress in the body is a real thing and how she’s linking emotions and pain to change her behavior with self-care. What does it look like to take yourself and your pain seriously enough to get the help that you need?

Key Points From This Episode:

• Language for pain.
• Chronically ignored pain changes your brain relationship to pain.
• All pain has three contributing components to it: mechanical, biochemical, and emotional.
• Diagnosis is good, but it can really box someone in.
• Labels or diagnoses put a tangible concept to a potentially overwhelming situation to provide a roadmap out of it.
• Correlation between lower back pain and abdominal distress.
• SIBO - Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (under the umbrella diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome); occurrence happens usually after abdominal surgery and women over 40.
• Neuroscientist Candace Pert - the connection between body and mind.
• The psychosomatic network of proteins or neuropeptides.
• Alcohol use contribution to biochemical pain triggers.
• Self-care and the importance of emotional stress.

Links Related to This Episode:

• Stress Impact on the Body -https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/urban-survival/201505/5-ways-stress-hurts-your-body-and-what-do-about-it
• Emotions in the Body - http://candacepert.com/where-do-you-store-your-emotions/
• Psychosomatic Network -  http://candacepert.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Psychosomatic-network-peptides-receptors-Pert-JI85-Pert-820-6.pdf
• Candace Pert PhD. - http://candacepert.com/
• SIBO - https://draxe.com/sibo-symptoms/
• Small Intestinal Bacteriral Overgrowth and Irritabel Bowel Syndrome - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347643/

Featured Businesses:

• Peony Medicine

Connect With the Show:

• Facebook Page – Everyday Pain Guide
• Facebook Group – Everyday Pain Forum
• Twitter – @noeverydaypain

Music From This Episode: 

• Eric and Magill – https://ericandmagill.bandcamp.com/
• Samuel Vas-Y – https://samyel.bandcamp.com
• Lame Drivers - https://lamedrivers.bandcamp.com