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The Pain Factor

The Pain Factor

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What is pain? Where does it come from? Is there anything we can do to control it, overcome it, even leverage it?

This podcast is a comprehensive exploration of chronic pain management alongside physical, emotional and mental pain. Through shared data, clinical insight, and pain science, we aim to understand this complex reality.


We want to be clear: this is not a self-help podcast. It is about fostering accountability while maintaining a human approach to sensitive issues. Religion, mysticism and positive thinking are things we purposefully, and adamantly, distance ourselves from.

Before facing the challenge, we get to know it better. This is what this podcast is about.

Join us on this essential quest for understanding, empowerment, and ultimate freedom.

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Episodes
  • PF# 35: Dr. Darrel Ray - The Neurobiology of Religious Guilt and Trauma

    PF# 35: Dr. Darrel Ray - The Neurobiology of Religious Guilt and Trauma
    Jul 17 2026

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    In this episode, organizational psychologist Dr. Darrel Ray breaks down the profound impact of religious indoctrination on human brain architecture and mental health. Discover how dogma alters automated threat loops to manufacture chronic emotional and mental pain, and explore the mechanism-based pathways to long-term neurological recovery. Whether you are navigating deconversion or seeking advanced tools for chronic pain management, this conversation applies rigorous pain science to the psychology of belief.

    Follow Dr. Ray:

    • on Facebook: Darrel Ray
    • on Instagram: drdray132


    Follow Recovering From Religion:

    • on Instagram: rfrorg
    • on Facebook: Recovering From Religion
    • on YouTube: @RecoveringFromReligion
    • on TikTok: @RecoveringFromReligion

    Learn more about Recovering From Religion at www.recoveringfromreligion.org

    The Pain Factor is a Project Fourtress podcast.

    Project Fourtress is a secular, humanist project, dedicated to find answers to the physical, mental and emotional pain people experience, as well as offer help to deal with these issues. To learn more about Project Fourtress, please visit fourtress.org.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • PF# 34: Brandon Day - Rejecting "Normal" Chronic Pain Through Pain Science

    PF# 34: Brandon Day - Rejecting "Normal" Chronic Pain Through Pain Science
    Jul 10 2026

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    In this episode, Brandon Day shares his journey from professional athlete to pain recovery expert, exploring the foundations of pain science and how understanding the brain unlocks new pathways to healing. Discover practical tools for chronic pain management and learning mechanisms to transform your relationship with emotional and mental pain to break free from suffering.

    Follow Brandon:

    • on Instagram: iambrandonday
    • on Skool: www.skool.com/evolved/about

    Learn more about Brandon's work at evolvedathlete.coach

    The Pain Factor is a Project Fourtress podcast.

    Project Fourtress is a secular, humanist project, dedicated to find answers to the physical, mental and emotional pain people experience, as well as offer help to deal with these issues. To learn more about Project Fourtress, please visit fourtress.org.
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • PF# 33: Alan Bodnar - Pain Science and the Self-Driving Brain

    PF# 33: Alan Bodnar - Pain Science and the Self-Driving Brain
    Jul 3 2026

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    In this episode, neurophilosopher Alan Bodnar breaks down the mechanism of automatic responses. Discover practical strategies for understanding chronic pain, and learn how to train your self-driving system to process deep emotional and mental pain using the tools of secular pain science.

    Follow Alan:

    • on Instagram: #theselfdrivingyou
    • on TikTok: theselfdrivingyou
    • on X: selfdrivingyou

    Learn more about Alan's work at theselfdrivingyou.com

    The Pain Factor is a Project Fourtress podcast.

    Project Fourtress is a secular, humanist project, dedicated to find answers to the physical, mental and emotional pain people experience, as well as offer help to deal with these issues. To learn more about Project Fourtress, please visit fourtress.org.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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