March 27, 2025 • 26 mins
Chronic pain often persists because the brain misinterprets normal signals as dangerous, creating a self-perpetuating cycle that conventional medicine struggles to address. Neuroplastic pain is real, valid, and responds to mind-body approaches that recognize how emotional stressors, unresolved trauma, and unconscious beliefs amplify pain signals long after tissue healing should have occurred.
• Neuroplastic pain occurs when the nervous system stays in a heightened state of alert after an injury
• Emotional stressors and unresolved trauma amplify pain signals in the body
• The subconscious mind reinforces pain patterns through deep-seated fears and beliefs
• Dismissal by the medical system creates additional stress that can intensify pain
• Understanding the mind-body connection doesn't invalidate pain but provides new pathways for healing
• Asking "what would you like to do in your body if it felt good?" shifts focus from what's wrong to what's possible
• Validation through skilled touch provides both confirmation that pain is real and hope that it can be solved
• Addressing unconscious patterns through tools like hypnotherapy and superconscious recoding accelerates healing
• Trauma stored in the nervous system often emerges as physical symptoms decades later
• Your body was designed to feel good and last—pain patterns are learned responses that can be unlearned
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Have you ever experienced real pain, chronic
pain, pain that's lasted overthree months or pain that keeps
coming back?
I used to have chronic backpain, like my back would go out
at least once a year for a longtime, and when I mean out, I
(00:22):
mean I couldn't walk.
As a body worker, I use my bodyto make money, so I would also
have to go to work with my backkilling me.
I've always believed that thereare solutions to pain outside
of what we currently know, and Ibelieve during COVID was when I
(00:44):
really saw it escalate becausepeople did not have access to
healthcare.
They did not have access totheir normal providers and when
they started coming back inafter the lockdowns were
released, their pain was so muchgreater than before and it
(01:05):
really got me examining themind-body connection between
pain, physical pain, emotionalpain, mental pain and spiritual
pain.
If you haven't met me, my nameis Tabitha MacDonald and I am an
intuitive coach and a bodyworker.
I love solving pain.
(01:25):
I love helping people out ofpain.
It is what gets me going, whatgets me excited in the morning
and what I absolutely lovetalking about that and intuition
.
But today I want to talk aboutsomething called neuroplastic
pain.
There is a new book out.
It's called the Way Out andit's by Alan Gordon and I just
(01:48):
got it and I don't know how newit is, but if you're really
looking for a solution to pain,this book is fantastic.
It basically put research andscience to everything that I
have seen in my clinicalpractice and just intuitively
known for a very long time.
That pain that has been withyou for a long period of time
(02:11):
has now created an addiction toitself in your mind, and I know
I talked about this on theepisode where I talked about my
step mom and her journey withchronic pain and when it was the
end of her life and I could seethe addiction to the pain
medicine actually amplifyingpain so that she could get more
(02:33):
pain medication.
And trust me, I'm not sayingthat from a blaming way at all.
It was a vicious cycle that Idon't think anybody ever really
talks about.
But that's not what I want totalk about right now.
What I really want to talkabout is understanding
neuroplastic pain.
Neuroplastic pain occurs whenthe brain misinterprets normal
signals from the body asdangerous, keeping you locked in
(02:56):
a loop of pain and fear.
This happens when the nervoussystem stays in a heightened
state of alert after an injury.
Emotional stressors andunresolved trauma amplify pain
signals and the subconsciousmind reinforces pain patterns
due to deep seated fear andbeliefs.
Does that mean that the painthat the person is experiencing
(03:21):
is not real?
No, that does not mean that atall, because all pain happens in
the mind, because the receptorsin the body communicate to the
mind to let you know how muchpain you're in.
Why does that matter?
Because I think when a lot ofmy clients come in, they have
felt very dismissed by themedical system and I know
(03:42):
they're doing the best they can.
I think everybody's doing thebest they can.
I think everybody's doing thebest they can with the
information that they have, butthey feel very dismissed by the
medical system.
And when they feel dismissed bythe medical system, it actually
creates a whole new loop thatcreates even more pain, so that
somebody will finally validatethe experience that they are
(04:03):
having in their body when theycome in.
And usually people will come seeme when they have kind of
reached the oh I was going tocuss, but I'm not going to when
they have reached that like thatpoint where they don't have any
answers and they're kind ofdesperate.
Usually that's when they'llcome in and see me and I like
(04:30):
taking a science and anintuitive look at their pain.
So I look at things like okay,are we dealing with postural
distortions?
Are we dealing with triggerpoints?
Are we dealing with a tear orsome of the more standard like
nerve pinching and things likethat that will increase physical
symptoms of pain, are we?
And then, if that's notresolving, then I look and go
(04:50):
okay, well, is this an oldbelief pattern that you know,
maybe inherited from the parents, for instance?
You know, after 40, your bodyfalls apart.
That's a really common one thatI see a lot of.
Or maybe a doctor told themwhen they were 30 that they had
the spine of an 80-year-old, andnow they have this unconscious
(05:11):
pattern that says they're really80 instead of the youthful body
that they have.
So when we're looking atneuroplastic pain, if you've had
an injury and that pain has notresolved itself over a long
period of time, the mind-bodyapproach is what you need,
because the drugs willeventually stop working.
(05:34):
And I'm just going to say thisI am not telling you not to
follow your doctor's advice.
I am not telling you to walkaway from the Western system.
If that's what you're in, I amsaying that there needs to also
be included an additional levelof support to help you on your
journey, and the neuroplasticpain is what we really need to
(05:54):
address Now.
If you've ever done any workwith like NLP neurolinguistic
programming, you would also havebeen exposed to parts.
Parts are aspects of ourconsciousness that are trapped
in moments in time, andsometimes a pain pattern might
have been created as a way ofkeeping you safe.
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For instance, I had this oldpattern where every time it was
time for me to break up withsomeone, my left calf would
become so injured I couldn'twalk and I'd be like oh great,
it's time to break up.
Like my body never lies.
So you know now that I've beendoing super conscious work for a
long time.
(06:37):
I no longer have that issue.
Now I use intuition, but yourbody might have an old pattern
trying to communicate with youthe only way that it knows how,
for instance, my low back usedto go out because of many
reasons, but one was fear,financial fear, and the more I
had financial fear and worry,the more my back would go out,
(07:00):
which then created morefinancial fear and worry, which
is ironic.
But that's the pattern that mybody was in.
So when we're looking at yourpain, I want to ask you a couple
of questions.
Do you have pain that haseither repeated itself over the
years or been chronic, meaningit has been over you know three
(07:24):
months that it has been presentand not resolved?
If the answer is yes, then thisis for you 100%.
I have a free access, like14-day access to my Somerflow
Library of Healing and I have awhole module on pain and it also
includes some recodes for painand hypnotherapy sessions to
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help resolve the underlyingcause of chronic pain.
If you're interested, the linkis down below in the show notes.
You can also go tosoma-massagenet that's my
clinic's website and there willbe a link off of there to get a
free trial.
And I just invite you to beopen-minded, to try something
(08:12):
different, to be open to thepossibility that maybe there is
an aspect of your mind that istrapped in pain and it doesn't
know how to get out.
That is trapped in pain and itdoesn't know how to get out.
That's where super consciousrecode, structural integrity and
(08:36):
also hypnotherapy can help Withstructure and that's like
structural alignment notphysical structural alignment,
but more like visualization andgoal setting can really play a
huge part in healing andrecovery.
One of the first questions I askmy clients is what do you want
to do with your body when youfeel good in it?
And I can always tell thepeople who have been in pain a
(08:57):
long time because they look atme very confused, like I can't
even fathom feeling good in mybody.
Confused Like I can't evenfathom feeling good in my body.
And so I say, okay, well, whatwould you like to do?
Or what would you haveenvisioned your life doing if
you never had pain?
What would you have done?
(09:18):
And sometimes it might be,especially with my older clients
, like I just want to play golf,or I retired and I want to go
on vacations in Europe and beable to walk on the cobblestone
streets and enjoy myself withoutworrying about falling or
breaking a hip.
It can also be things likeactivities of daily living, like
I want to be able to get offthe toilet and not have my back
go out or my hip give way, andyou know it could be getting out
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of the shower with ease or inand out of the car without pain.
It doesn't always have to besome grand adventure horseback
riding, it could just be.
I want to be able to go fromsitting to standing and not feel
like I'm 105 years old.
So I want you to think aboutwhat you would like to do If
you're someone who's had chronicpain.
What would you like to be doingin your body if it felt good?
(10:04):
What would you be doing If youdidn't have headaches every time
you were in burnout, if youdidn't have low back pain every
time you played pickleball?
What would you be doing in yourbody?
What would you want to do?
How would you want toexperience life?
What would bring you joy andpurpose and meaning life what
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would bring you joy and purposeand meaning?
I had a client come in the otherday who was just doing his
honeydew list and carryingcement in it through his back
out.
He also uses his body for work,and so there amplifies this
pain, because not only are wenow like oh great, we're
disappointing the family, butnow we're also not going to be
able to go to work.
That's stress, and that stresscreates extra cortisol in the
(10:51):
body.
And then now we are actuallyincreasing pain even more.
So when I asked what would youwant to be doing when there is
no more pain in your body.
As always, confusion set in andI said I bet you'd like to be
fishing more.
And the smile came across hisface and obviously that's what
(11:11):
he would want to be doing withhis time is spending more time
fishing and, you know, enjoyinglife, not always worried about,
oh my gosh, if I go out on aboat, is my lumbar spine going
to be compressed and then myback's going to go out?
Do I have to pay for my bodynot cooperating every time?
I want to have fun, so thinkabout it.
(11:31):
What would you like to be doingFor me?
I'm going to be 50 this year andmy big goal and what gets me to
the gym every day is I want togo on a backpacking trip for my
50th birthday, thinking 50 miles, but I also am not sure about
that.
I really just want to besomeplace beautiful and to
challenge my body physically andto let go of the identity of
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someone who has ill health,who's obese and who doesn't feel
athletic and fit.
So this is my year of reallyfocusing on finally crossing the
finish line of no, I feel goodin my body and my body actually
feels better as I age because Ihave been using the hypnotherapy
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and recode to tell myself thatand it's interesting because I
actually feel younger and I feelstronger and I look younger
than I did 10 years ago.
So I know mindset works, I knowsuper conscious recode works, I
know intuition works and I knowbody work is an important part
(12:36):
of that.
Part of the reason body work isso important is because touch
is healing Like having someoneput their finger on your body or
their hand and that's your painis probably one of the most
validating experiences for ourclients, because the minute you
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find their pain, they know, one,they were not making it up and
two, that it's solvable becauseyou found it and something that
can be found can be solved.
And something that can be foundcan be solved.
That is hope, and I would sayhope is probably the first stage
of overcoming chronic painissues.
Now, if you're not in thePortland area and you can't come
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into SOMA, I encourage you toread the book the Way Out and I
encourage you to still downloadthe free trial to my app because
you can still receive thebenefits of retraining the
unconscious mind outside ofthose pain patterns.
You're not alone.
There are a lot of peoplesuffering with pain and there's
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not a lot of great solutions outthere except oh, you're getting
older, get used to it, yourbody's falling apart.
That's terrible advice and alsonot true.
It really frustrates me when Ihear people saying that over and
over again.
And yeah, I like all the funnymemes on like, you know,
facebook or whatever that youknow have the like over 40
(14:08):
problems at the gym.
But I also think that itnormalizes not taking care of
ourselves over a certain age,not understanding that our body
and the chemistry of our body ischanging and that the needs of
our body is changing.
Instead, we tend to try toblock it out and pretend like it
isn't happening and then slowlywe stop moving and stop taking
(14:32):
care of ourselves and that's howwe become old.
Not because we become old, butbecause we stop caring.
So when we look at neuroplasticpain, getting back to that, I
want you to also think about theeffect of long-term trauma on
the body.
If you had a lot of abuse inyour childhood or in your early
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adult, maybe you had an abusiverelationship.
I just want to offer that thattrauma gets stored in our
nervous system and I would sayin your 40s is when it really
wants to be released and thereare so many tools to do that
faster than you were ever toldpossible.
I know because I found outduring my own journey through
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pain and through losing weightthat I had so much trauma that I
had to recover from.
That.
I really didn't think wasaffecting me or my body and it
wasn't on a conscious level.
It's what it was doing on anunconscious level.
Unconsciously it was creatinghorrible relationships, it was
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creating a completedisconnection from my physical
body and it was creatingaddictive patterns with, like
social media or you know,periods of binge drinking or
binge eating or binge lazying Idon't even know if that's a word
, but I don't think it is butjust not taking care of myself
(16:05):
because I didn't prioritize orvalue my body.
And it's interesting coming upon 50 because I'm so excited
about taking care of my body.
And don't get me wrong, I havebad days Like I don't think you
could not have bad days.
Maybe you could, I don't know,maybe I look forward to that one
day.
I do have bad days where I'mnot in full alignment, and
(16:28):
that's just when I lean into mytools and I use my intuition or
I'll listen to a hypnotherapysession and just get my mindset
back where I want it to be,which is health and vitality.
So when we look at likestructural alignment and I ask
someone, okay, well, what wouldyou like to be doing with your
body, then we have to go and say, well, what is it like now?
(16:48):
What is it like to be in yourbody now?
And I know at the beginning ofthe year for me, I had gained so
much weight and I had become soimmobile, I just stopped moving
.
I was not walking very much, Iwas eating a lot of junk food at
night.
(17:09):
Probably when my daughter movedout, I don't think that I
realized how difficult it wouldbe for me when she left the
house.
I mean, part of me was like,but then the other part of me
was like, oh no, what do I do?
I'm so used to worrying abouther, like no, she's not here.
So I kind of went into a deepfunk of I think that empty
(17:33):
nester is the term, but I didn'treally consider myself an empty
nester, but I guess technicallyI was.
And it made me feel a littlebit lost and I really stopped
taking care of myself and, youknow, sitting on the couch at
night, eating and watching TVand not really caring anymore,
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made me gain more weight andthen also just stop moving.
And then it started hurting tomove and so I just stopped
moving more so that I didn'thave to really be aware of how
much my body hurt.
You relate to that.
I know a lot of people who theyjust slide into it and they
don't even realize they've doneit.
So I want to ask you, like whatis it like now to be in your
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body?
So I want to ask you like, whatis it like now to be in your
body?
What are you ignoring, what areyou not paying attention to?
Is it sluggish, is it heavy?
Is there pain that you pretendisn't there and work through?
And a lot of us are just afraidto look at the pain because we
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think that it means we have toacknowledge defeat or we don't
have the solution to it.
But that's where, like recode,superconscious recode is
probably the most magical toolon the planet that I have found,
because what we do is we gointo the field and intuitively,
I'll go into the field andconnect in and I'll like scan
your body and scan your field.
So I look at, like, thespiritual body the mental body,
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emotional body, the physicalbody, your family history, past
lives, timelines, all that kindof stuff and I just look for the
biggest boulders of resistanceto you having a life that you
love, to you feeling empoweredwith your health and to you
feeling good in your body.
And we just start removing theboulders using your
superconscious, and when thathappens, we can then step into
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an intuitive state and say, okay, what is the next aligned
action to feel good in your body?
Now it might not make logicalsense.
It might go against all of thethings that you thought you
needed to do.
However, the information thatcomes in intuitively is usually
the answer that's going tocreate the fastest result for
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you.
So with me in particular, myintuition said to do isogenix,
which is a shake program, and Ithought, wow, like I've had so
many people tell me that thatwas not safe and there was all
these issues with it and maybethat product wasn't great.
But I decided this year totrust my intuition and then I
(20:14):
had like three synchronicitiesand signs that validated the
intuition I got, and I alwaystrust those way more than
people's opinions.
And since I started Isagenix, Ifeel younger, stronger, fitter.
I have lost 18 pounds, I'velost a lot of body percent of
fat and I'm less hungry, whichis fascinating.
(20:38):
And I love it because I don'tthink about food as much,
because I find it easier to justdo the shakes and the isogenic
program without having to likemeal prep and plan, and I can
just drink them between clients.
And for me it fits into mylifestyle, which is probably why
my intuition told me to do that.
Also, adding in creatinesupplements has helped
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tremendously with my muscles,especially since I'm working out
four or five days a week atOrange Theory.
That's what my intuition alsotold me to do.
So when we get the intuitiveguidance in that's step four and
then step five we have tofollow it.
And if we're not following theguidance that we're receiving,
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then we have to look and go.
Why not?
Do I not trust myself?
Am I listening to peopleoutside of me?
Am I not prioritizing my needsstill?
And then we go back in and welook for more boulders,
unconscious patterns, beliefs,family history, um, and we just
(21:45):
keep chipping away until youstart taking action towards
feeling good in your body,towards feeling good in your
life and to be really empoweredand purpose-driven.
So that is what I wanted to talkto you about today as far as
pain goes, because so many of us, especially the over 40 market,
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are struggling with pain or oldinjuries and really don't feel
supported, seen, heard or evenknow where to turn to resolve
the pain.
And I believe that the newscience of mind-body medicine
and energy healing and body work, massage, hands-on therapies
(22:35):
are going to transform the worldof pain care.
Therapies are going totransform the world of pain care
, and I really hope that youtake at least a small step on
that journey.
You have nothing to lose bytrying out my 14-day free trial.
You have nothing to lose at all.
It's a gift that I would loveto share with you, and you can
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just go through the pain modulein there.
I have other hypno recodesaround obesity, weight loss
relationships and autoimmunedisorders, things like that, so
feel free to check it out.
But if you're really strugglingin your body and you're not
feeling good in it, it's timethat we start listening to your
intuition.
You start listening to yourintuition.
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You start listening to yourintuition and connect in and
figure out.
What is it going to take for meto feel good in my body?
And that is my favoritequestion to ask what is it going
to take for me to feel good inmy body today?
You get really quiet and youjust listen and start writing.
If you're a writer I'm a I'm biginto automatic writing.
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I love it.
I do it every day.
It's where I get the bestinformation.
Um, that's just how myintuition is strongest.
Um, some people just see like avisual.
Maybe they might get, like ayou know, a visual of their
chiropractic friend and thenthey might call them and make an
appointment, or perhaps afriend later that day might give
them my card, or they mightreach out and give them someone
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else's card who helped them outof pain.
Perhaps it's an acupuncturistor someone else, maybe it's a
physical therapist.
Listen to your intuition,because your body was designed
to feel good, your body wasdesigned to last, and there's
just something in yourunconscious programming or your
patterns that are getting inyour way and blocking you.
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And if I could gift the worldsomething, it would be the
knowledge that we've got to lookat pain in a new way.
We really do.
We've got to address all fourlayers of pain so that people
can really choose to feel goodin their body, because it is
(24:45):
probably I think one of thethings that gets stolen from us
when there's pain or illness isthat connection to our body and
getting to feel good and walkaround and feel confident in it
and to, you know, evict the meanperson in your head that says,
you know, you can't do it, thatthis is just your lot in life.
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It's time to just get them outand leave the prison of pain.
My favorite quote from Rumi,the one that really changed my
life, was why would you stay inprison when the door is wide
open?
Changed my life was why wouldyou stay in prison when the door
is wide open?
So I'm going to invite you tocheck your pocket for the key to
your personal freedom, so thatyou, too, can feel good in your
(25:27):
body.
Thank you so much.
I hope you have a great day.
Have you ever experienced real pain, chronic
pain, pain that's lasted overthree months or pain that keeps
coming back?
I used to have chronic backpain, like my back would go out
at least once a year for a longtime, and when I mean out, I
(00:22):
mean I couldn't walk.
As a body worker, I use my bodyto make money, so I would also
have to go to work with my backkilling me.
I've always believed that thereare solutions to pain outside
of what we currently know, and Ibelieve during COVID was when I
(00:44):
really saw it escalate becausepeople did not have access to
healthcare.
They did not have access totheir normal providers and when
they started coming back inafter the lockdowns were
released, their pain was so muchgreater than before and it
(01:05):
really got me examining themind-body connection between
pain, physical pain, emotionalpain, mental pain and spiritual
pain.
If you haven't met me, my nameis Tabitha MacDonald and I am an
intuitive coach and a bodyworker.
I love solving pain.
(01:25):
I love helping people out ofpain.
It is what gets me going, whatgets me excited in the morning
and what I absolutely lovetalking about that and intuition
.
But today I want to talk aboutsomething called neuroplastic
pain.
There is a new book out.
It's called the Way Out andit's by Alan Gordon and I just
(01:48):
got it and I don't know how newit is, but if you're really
looking for a solution to pain,this book is fantastic.
It basically put research andscience to everything that I
have seen in my clinicalpractice and just intuitively
known for a very long time.
That pain that has been withyou for a long period of time
(02:11):
has now created an addiction toitself in your mind, and I know
I talked about this on theepisode where I talked about my
step mom and her journey withchronic pain and when it was the
end of her life and I could seethe addiction to the pain
medicine actually amplifyingpain so that she could get more
(02:33):
pain medication.
And trust me, I'm not sayingthat from a blaming way at all.
It was a vicious cycle that Idon't think anybody ever really
talks about.
But that's not what I want totalk about right now.
What I really want to talkabout is understanding
neuroplastic pain.
Neuroplastic pain occurs whenthe brain misinterprets normal
signals from the body asdangerous, keeping you locked in
(02:56):
a loop of pain and fear.
This happens when the nervoussystem stays in a heightened
state of alert after an injury.
Emotional stressors andunresolved trauma amplify pain
signals and the subconsciousmind reinforces pain patterns
due to deep seated fear andbeliefs.
Does that mean that the painthat the person is experiencing
(03:21):
is not real?
No, that does not mean that atall, because all pain happens in
the mind, because the receptorsin the body communicate to the
mind to let you know how muchpain you're in.
Why does that matter?
Because I think when a lot ofmy clients come in, they have
felt very dismissed by themedical system and I know
(03:42):
they're doing the best they can.
I think everybody's doing thebest they can.
I think everybody's doing thebest they can with the
information that they have, butthey feel very dismissed by the
medical system.
And when they feel dismissed bythe medical system, it actually
creates a whole new loop thatcreates even more pain, so that
somebody will finally validatethe experience that they are
(04:03):
having in their body when theycome in.
And usually people will come seeme when they have kind of
reached the oh I was going tocuss, but I'm not going to when
they have reached that like thatpoint where they don't have any
answers and they're kind ofdesperate.
Usually that's when they'llcome in and see me and I like
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taking a science and anintuitive look at their pain.
So I look at things like okay,are we dealing with postural
distortions?
Are we dealing with triggerpoints?
Are we dealing with a tear orsome of the more standard like
nerve pinching and things likethat that will increase physical
symptoms of pain, are we?
And then, if that's notresolving, then I look and go
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okay, well, is this an oldbelief pattern that you know,
maybe inherited from the parents, for instance?
You know, after 40, your bodyfalls apart.
That's a really common one thatI see a lot of.
Or maybe a doctor told themwhen they were 30 that they had
the spine of an 80-year-old, andnow they have this unconscious
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pattern that says they're really80 instead of the youthful body
that they have.
So when we're looking atneuroplastic pain, if you've had
an injury and that pain has notresolved itself over a long
period of time, the mind-bodyapproach is what you need,
because the drugs willeventually stop working.
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And I'm just going to say thisI am not telling you not to
follow your doctor's advice.
I am not telling you to walkaway from the Western system.
If that's what you're in, I amsaying that there needs to also
be included an additional levelof support to help you on your
journey, and the neuroplasticpain is what we really need to
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address Now.
If you've ever done any workwith like NLP neurolinguistic
programming, you would also havebeen exposed to parts.
Parts are aspects of ourconsciousness that are trapped
in moments in time, andsometimes a pain pattern might
have been created as a way ofkeeping you safe.
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For instance, I had this oldpattern where every time it was
time for me to break up withsomeone, my left calf would
become so injured I couldn'twalk and I'd be like oh great,
it's time to break up.
Like my body never lies.
So you know now that I've beendoing super conscious work for a
long time.
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I no longer have that issue.
Now I use intuition, but yourbody might have an old pattern
trying to communicate with youthe only way that it knows how,
for instance, my low back usedto go out because of many
reasons, but one was fear,financial fear, and the more I
had financial fear and worry,the more my back would go out,
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which then created morefinancial fear and worry, which
is ironic.
But that's the pattern that mybody was in.
So when we're looking at yourpain, I want to ask you a couple
of questions.
Do you have pain that haseither repeated itself over the
years or been chronic, meaningit has been over you know three
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months that it has been presentand not resolved?
If the answer is yes, then thisis for you 100%.
I have a free access, like14-day access to my Somerflow
Library of Healing and I have awhole module on pain and it also
includes some recodes for painand hypnotherapy sessions to
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help resolve the underlyingcause of chronic pain.
If you're interested, the linkis down below in the show notes.
You can also go tosoma-massagenet that's my
clinic's website and there willbe a link off of there to get a
free trial.
And I just invite you to beopen-minded, to try something
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different, to be open to thepossibility that maybe there is
an aspect of your mind that istrapped in pain and it doesn't
know how to get out.
That is trapped in pain and itdoesn't know how to get out.
That's where super consciousrecode, structural integrity and
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also hypnotherapy can help Withstructure and that's like
structural alignment notphysical structural alignment,
but more like visualization andgoal setting can really play a
huge part in healing andrecovery.
One of the first questions I askmy clients is what do you want
to do with your body when youfeel good in it?
And I can always tell thepeople who have been in pain a
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long time because they look atme very confused, like I can't
even fathom feeling good in mybody.
Confused Like I can't evenfathom feeling good in my body.
And so I say, okay, well, whatwould you like to do?
Or what would you haveenvisioned your life doing if
you never had pain?
What would you have done?
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And sometimes it might be,especially with my older clients
, like I just want to play golf,or I retired and I want to go
on vacations in Europe and beable to walk on the cobblestone
streets and enjoy myself withoutworrying about falling or
breaking a hip.
It can also be things likeactivities of daily living, like
I want to be able to get offthe toilet and not have my back
go out or my hip give way, andyou know it could be getting out
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of the shower with ease or inand out of the car without pain.
It doesn't always have to besome grand adventure horseback
riding, it could just be.
I want to be able to go fromsitting to standing and not feel
like I'm 105 years old.
So I want you to think aboutwhat you would like to do If
you're someone who's had chronicpain.
What would you like to be doingin your body if it felt good?
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What would you be doing If youdidn't have headaches every time
you were in burnout, if youdidn't have low back pain every
time you played pickleball?
What would you be doing in yourbody?
What would you want to do?
How would you want toexperience life?
What would bring you joy andpurpose and meaning life what
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would bring you joy and purposeand meaning?
I had a client come in the otherday who was just doing his
honeydew list and carryingcement in it through his back
out.
He also uses his body for work,and so there amplifies this
pain, because not only are wenow like oh great, we're
disappointing the family, butnow we're also not going to be
able to go to work.
That's stress, and that stresscreates extra cortisol in the
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body.
And then now we are actuallyincreasing pain even more.
So when I asked what would youwant to be doing when there is
no more pain in your body.
As always, confusion set in andI said I bet you'd like to be
fishing more.
And the smile came across hisface and obviously that's what
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he would want to be doing withhis time is spending more time
fishing and, you know, enjoyinglife, not always worried about,
oh my gosh, if I go out on aboat, is my lumbar spine going
to be compressed and then myback's going to go out?
Do I have to pay for my bodynot cooperating every time?
I want to have fun, so thinkabout it.
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What would you like to be doingFor me?
I'm going to be 50 this year andmy big goal and what gets me to
the gym every day is I want togo on a backpacking trip for my
50th birthday, thinking 50 miles, but I also am not sure about
that.
I really just want to besomeplace beautiful and to
challenge my body physically andto let go of the identity of
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someone who has ill health,who's obese and who doesn't feel
athletic and fit.
So this is my year of reallyfocusing on finally crossing the
finish line of no, I feel goodin my body and my body actually
feels better as I age because Ihave been using the hypnotherapy
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and recode to tell myself thatand it's interesting because I
actually feel younger and I feelstronger and I look younger
than I did 10 years ago.
So I know mindset works, I knowsuper conscious recode works, I
know intuition works and I knowbody work is an important part
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of that.
Part of the reason body work isso important is because touch
is healing Like having someoneput their finger on your body or
their hand and that's your painis probably one of the most
validating experiences for ourclients, because the minute you
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find their pain, they know, one,they were not making it up and
two, that it's solvable becauseyou found it and something that
can be found can be solved.
And something that can be foundcan be solved.
That is hope, and I would sayhope is probably the first stage
of overcoming chronic painissues.
Now, if you're not in thePortland area and you can't come
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into SOMA, I encourage you toread the book the Way Out and I
encourage you to still downloadthe free trial to my app because
you can still receive thebenefits of retraining the
unconscious mind outside ofthose pain patterns.
You're not alone.
There are a lot of peoplesuffering with pain and there's
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not a lot of great solutions outthere except oh, you're getting
older, get used to it, yourbody's falling apart.
That's terrible advice and alsonot true.
It really frustrates me when Ihear people saying that over and
over again.
And yeah, I like all the funnymemes on like, you know,
facebook or whatever that youknow have the like over 40
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problems at the gym.
But I also think that itnormalizes not taking care of
ourselves over a certain age,not understanding that our body
and the chemistry of our body ischanging and that the needs of
our body is changing.
Instead, we tend to try toblock it out and pretend like it
isn't happening and then slowlywe stop moving and stop taking
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care of ourselves and that's howwe become old.
Not because we become old, butbecause we stop caring.
So when we look at neuroplasticpain, getting back to that, I
want you to also think about theeffect of long-term trauma on
the body.
If you had a lot of abuse inyour childhood or in your early
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adult, maybe you had an abusiverelationship.
I just want to offer that thattrauma gets stored in our
nervous system and I would sayin your 40s is when it really
wants to be released and thereare so many tools to do that
faster than you were ever toldpossible.
I know because I found outduring my own journey through
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pain and through losing weightthat I had so much trauma that I
had to recover from.
That.
I really didn't think wasaffecting me or my body and it
wasn't on a conscious level.
It's what it was doing on anunconscious level.
Unconsciously it was creatinghorrible relationships, it was
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creating a completedisconnection from my physical
body and it was creatingaddictive patterns with, like
social media or you know,periods of binge drinking or
binge eating or binge lazying Idon't even know if that's a word
, but I don't think it is butjust not taking care of myself
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because I didn't prioritize orvalue my body.
And it's interesting coming upon 50 because I'm so excited
about taking care of my body.
And don't get me wrong, I havebad days Like I don't think you
could not have bad days.
Maybe you could, I don't know,maybe I look forward to that one
day.
I do have bad days where I'mnot in full alignment, and
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that's just when I lean into mytools and I use my intuition or
I'll listen to a hypnotherapysession and just get my mindset
back where I want it to be,which is health and vitality.
So when we look at likestructural alignment and I ask
someone, okay, well, what wouldyou like to be doing with your
body, then we have to go and say, well, what is it like now?
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What is it like to be in yourbody now?
And I know at the beginning ofthe year for me, I had gained so
much weight and I had become soimmobile, I just stopped moving
.
I was not walking very much, Iwas eating a lot of junk food at
night.
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Probably when my daughter movedout, I don't think that I
realized how difficult it wouldbe for me when she left the
house.
I mean, part of me was like,but then the other part of me
was like, oh no, what do I do?
I'm so used to worrying abouther, like no, she's not here.
So I kind of went into a deepfunk of I think that empty
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nester is the term, but I didn'treally consider myself an empty
nester, but I guess technicallyI was.
And it made me feel a littlebit lost and I really stopped
taking care of myself and, youknow, sitting on the couch at
night, eating and watching TVand not really caring anymore,
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made me gain more weight andthen also just stop moving.
And then it started hurting tomove and so I just stopped
moving more so that I didn'thave to really be aware of how
much my body hurt.
You relate to that.
I know a lot of people who theyjust slide into it and they
don't even realize they've doneit.
So I want to ask you, like whatis it like now to be in your
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body?
So I want to ask you like, whatis it like now to be in your
body?
What are you ignoring, what areyou not paying attention to?
Is it sluggish, is it heavy?
Is there pain that you pretendisn't there and work through?
And a lot of us are just afraidto look at the pain because we
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think that it means we have toacknowledge defeat or we don't
have the solution to it.
But that's where, like recode,superconscious recode is
probably the most magical toolon the planet that I have found,
because what we do is we gointo the field and intuitively,
I'll go into the field andconnect in and I'll like scan
your body and scan your field.
So I look at, like, thespiritual body the mental body,
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emotional body, the physicalbody, your family history, past
lives, timelines, all that kindof stuff and I just look for the
biggest boulders of resistanceto you having a life that you
love, to you feeling empoweredwith your health and to you
feeling good in your body.
And we just start removing theboulders using your
superconscious, and when thathappens, we can then step into
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an intuitive state and say, okay, what is the next aligned
action to feel good in your body?
Now it might not make logicalsense.
It might go against all of thethings that you thought you
needed to do.
However, the information thatcomes in intuitively is usually
the answer that's going tocreate the fastest result for
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you.
So with me in particular, myintuition said to do isogenix,
which is a shake program, and Ithought, wow, like I've had so
many people tell me that thatwas not safe and there was all
these issues with it and maybethat product wasn't great.
But I decided this year totrust my intuition and then I
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had like three synchronicitiesand signs that validated the
intuition I got, and I alwaystrust those way more than
people's opinions.
And since I started Isagenix, Ifeel younger, stronger, fitter.
I have lost 18 pounds, I'velost a lot of body percent of
fat and I'm less hungry, whichis fascinating.
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And I love it because I don'tthink about food as much,
because I find it easier to justdo the shakes and the isogenic
program without having to likemeal prep and plan, and I can
just drink them between clients.
And for me it fits into mylifestyle, which is probably why
my intuition told me to do that.
Also, adding in creatinesupplements has helped
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tremendously with my muscles,especially since I'm working out
four or five days a week atOrange Theory.
That's what my intuition alsotold me to do.
So when we get the intuitiveguidance in that's step four and
then step five we have tofollow it.
And if we're not following theguidance that we're receiving,
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then we have to look and go.
Why not?
Do I not trust myself?
Am I listening to peopleoutside of me?
Am I not prioritizing my needsstill?
And then we go back in and welook for more boulders,
unconscious patterns, beliefs,family history, um, and we just
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keep chipping away until youstart taking action towards
feeling good in your body,towards feeling good in your
life and to be really empoweredand purpose-driven.
So that is what I wanted to talkto you about today as far as
pain goes, because so many of us, especially the over 40 market,
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are struggling with pain or oldinjuries and really don't feel
supported, seen, heard or evenknow where to turn to resolve
the pain.
And I believe that the newscience of mind-body medicine
and energy healing and body work, massage, hands-on therapies
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are going to transform the worldof pain care.
Therapies are going totransform the world of pain care
, and I really hope that youtake at least a small step on
that journey.
You have nothing to lose bytrying out my 14-day free trial.
You have nothing to lose at all.
It's a gift that I would loveto share with you, and you can
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just go through the pain modulein there.
I have other hypno recodesaround obesity, weight loss
relationships and autoimmunedisorders, things like that, so
feel free to check it out.
But if you're really strugglingin your body and you're not
feeling good in it, it's timethat we start listening to your
intuition.
You start listening to yourintuition.
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You start listening to yourintuition and connect in and
figure out.
What is it going to take for meto feel good in my body?
And that is my favoritequestion to ask what is it going
to take for me to feel good inmy body today?
You get really quiet and youjust listen and start writing.
If you're a writer I'm a I'm biginto automatic writing.
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I love it.
I do it every day.
It's where I get the bestinformation.
Um, that's just how myintuition is strongest.
Um, some people just see like avisual.
Maybe they might get, like ayou know, a visual of their
chiropractic friend and thenthey might call them and make an
appointment, or perhaps afriend later that day might give
them my card, or they mightreach out and give them someone
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else's card who helped them outof pain.
Perhaps it's an acupuncturistor someone else, maybe it's a
physical therapist.
Listen to your intuition,because your body was designed
to feel good, your body wasdesigned to last, and there's
just something in yourunconscious programming or your
patterns that are getting inyour way and blocking you.
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And if I could gift the worldsomething, it would be the
knowledge that we've got to lookat pain in a new way.
We really do.
We've got to address all fourlayers of pain so that people
can really choose to feel goodin their body, because it is
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probably I think one of thethings that gets stolen from us
when there's pain or illness isthat connection to our body and
getting to feel good and walkaround and feel confident in it
and to, you know, evict the meanperson in your head that says,
you know, you can't do it, thatthis is just your lot in life.
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It's time to just get them outand leave the prison of pain.
My favorite quote from Rumi,the one that really changed my
life, was why would you stay inprison when the door is wide
open?
Changed my life was why wouldyou stay in prison when the door
is wide open?
So I'm going to invite you tocheck your pocket for the key to
your personal freedom, so thatyou, too, can feel good in your
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body.
Thank you so much.
I hope you have a great day.
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