In this episode I share the "Pleasure on Purpose" presentation I did last month for the ATNS Conference (Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms).

Check out the video on YouTube to watch with the slides! (slides are attached as a pdf here).

We explore if feeling pleasure on purpose can help your healing journey. (Spoiler Alert- it can!)

Listen for current research on savoring, understanding how positive emotions affect the brain and body, and how pain modulation is involved.

I've been putting this into practice over the last few years and can attest that adding play, fun, and pleasure into my life has helped me look and feel younger!

Pleasure on Purpose Slides

In this episode, I interview one of my favorite former clients! Carrie Beall, DO is a Physician that now works as a Medical Advisor with Dr Schubiner (Freedom From Chronic Pain), and helps her patients find chronic pain recovery instead of just managing their pain. It's been so fun seeing her at the last 2 ANTS Conferences! (Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms)

Carrie was quite sure she knew the difference between her "disc pain", "facet pain", and "neuroplastic pain." Well spoiler alert, it was all neuroplastic! And so were many of her other symptoms (IBS, Migraines, skin issues, foot pain, constipation when traveling). She talks about the rabbit hole she went down with rheumatology, but in the end those symptoms were neuroplastic too. Now her journey with discovering to love and support herself continues, even if her symptoms don't. Like many of us, her symptoms were just a gateway to this work of learning about ourselves, loving ourselves, and releasing resistance. Overall her journey is one of feeling the need to control everything around her (I mean perfectionism is expected in a Physician to some degree!)- to one of letting go, compassion for herself, and not just tolerating uncertainty, but seeing it as a possibility! If you want to reach out or follow Carrie, you can find her here: https://www.serenityosteopathicmedicine.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drcarriebeall

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https://www.instagram.com/bodyandmindlifecoach/

In this Episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Charlie Merrill,a well-known physical therapist specializing in the mind-body approach, to discuss the importance of emotional and physical healing in patient care.

Learn more about how pain and many bodily symptoms are frequently generated by the brain as a protective state rather than only by tissue damage, and the importance of distinguishing primary neural drivers from secondary physical changes (tightness, weakness, spasm, swelling) that may resolve when the protective state is addressed. We explore how emotions and fear can impact physical pain and movement, with Charlie explaining concepts like "smudging" - where the brain loses clarity in perceiving the body - and the importance of introducing prediction errors to update harmful pain patterns.

We cover practical applications including working with athletes, managing acute vs chronic pain, and the role of movement in healing, with Charlie emphasizing that the brain learns through mistakes and surprises, and that movement is crucial for feeding the brain accurate safety information. You can find Charlie Merrill on his website https://www.mperformance.com/ Email: charlie@Mperformance.com

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