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Mindbody Medicine for Chronic Pain

Therapist Sean Hershey, LCSW teaches you how to use psychological and emotional modalities to heal from chronic pain.

Podcast · By Sean Hershey, LCSW · English · Official site

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Bonus | How To Start (Or Restart) Exercise When You’re Afraid | Tate Odell, MS (opens the original)

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    Tate Odell is my personal trainer, and I’m excited to welcome him to the podcast today. Tate’s been in the fitness industry for many, many years. He and I, of course, have different professional backgrounds, but we can easily agree on one thing: pain in the body does not necessarily mean there’s something structurally wrong with the body at the site of the pain. Today, you get that perspective from a personal trainer. In this Episode: 🔹 Tate takes us through his advice for people who feel afraid

  2. Episode · Sep 20, 2026

    S6 E12 | WHAT ARE YOU REPRESSING? (opens the original)

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    “What am I repressing?” It’s a great question to ask yourself. However, as we heal, it’s very common for us to ask the right questions using the wrong energy. It’s very common, unfortunately, for us to do the right things the wrong way. Today, we talk about how to cultivate the right energy with which to approach these healing modalities. In this Episode: 🔹 A review of the 3 parts of healing: 1) Psychological, 2) Emotional, and 3) Patiently attuning to your true self. 🔹 How to balance all 3 part

  3. Episode · Sep 13, 2026

    S6 E11 | Finding Nervous System Regulation in this Political World, with Kristina Armenakis (opens the original)

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    Krisina Armenakis is a somatic coach. They help clients with chronic pain, chronic illness, and chronic stress. In Pain Reprocessing Therapy, we teach clients to feel safe. Safety, however, is a politicized concept. For those who struggle to feel safe, there are genuine reasons why. It’s validating to know: your body is not wrong. In this Episode: 🔹 What is the nervous system? And what does nervous system “regulation” really mean? 🔹 Today, we discuss the nervous system responses: fight, flight,

  4. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Bonus | I’m Not Here for Transformation, I Just Want to End the Pain (opens the original)

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    “I’m not here for transformation, I just want to end the pain.” Okay. I hear you. Now, let’s unpack that. In this Episode: 🔹 When we’re in chronic pain, we’re in a state of emergency …all the time …for weeks, months, years, or decades. 🔹 We want a solution that’ll fix us immediately. 🔹 And for most of us, that’s not an option. 🔹 And it sucks. 🔹 The true fix is the long, slow, winding-journey fix. 🔹 If you want to end the pain, then you're going to have to be here for a transformation. That’s jus

  5. Episode · Sep 6, 2026

    S6 E10 | Why Does Rest Make You Feel So Guilty? (opens the original)

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    Mastering the ability to rest will help you heal your chronic pain. Sometimes the hardest “work” is the work of slowing down, of giving up, of letting go, of relaxing, of resting, and of letting yourself just be. In this Episode: 🔹 What it feels like when your false self steals all your energy. 🔹 The emotional defenses of the TMS personality: perfectionism, goodism, high achievement, repressed anger, and stoicism. 🔹 Rest can mean being on the couch, but it can also mean letting go of the mask. 🔹

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