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The Pain Factor

Project FourTress

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

46 episodes

  1. TPF #45: Elizabeth Svoboda - The Art of Pacing: Pain Science Behind Stress 1:00:42
  2. TPF #44 - Emotional And Mental Pain: Why Looking Back Is Not The Enemy 16:49
  3. TPF #43 - Why Positive Thinking Fails When Brain Is Depleted 14:41
  4. TPF #42 - Emotional and Mental Pain: Progress, Setbacks and Self-Compassion 11:54
  5. TPF #41: Dr. Ya-Ling Liou - Pain Science & The Pain Personality Framework 1:10:56
  6. TPF #40: Dr David Pickar - The Science of Schizophrenia, Trauma and Pain Science 1:20:09
  7. TPF #39: Matt Hancock - Let the Light In Through Chronic Pain Management 1:24:21
  8. TPF #38: Dr Kyler Brown - You’re Not Your Image, You’re Not Your Pain 1:26:52
  9. TPF #37: Dr Aram Cargill - The Hidden Gray Zone Between Mental Health and Mental Illness 1:44:08
  10. Welcome to TPF Season 2: The Road Ahead 7:10
  11. TPF #35: Dr. Darrel Ray - The Neurobiology of Religious Guilt and Trauma 1:23:34
  12. TPF #34: Brandon Day - Rejecting "Normal" Chronic Pain Through Pain Science 1:36:19
  13. PF #33: Alan Bodnar - Pain Science and the Self-Driving Brain 1:03:09
  14. PF #32: Dr. Shang Olsen - Ending Emotional and Mental Pain with Metacognitive Therapy 1:29:15
  15. TPF #31: Discomfort vs Pain: The Cognitive Cost of Resilience 19:53
  16. TPF #30: The Pain Science of Hope: The Psychology of a Trap 21:02
  17. TPF #29: Dr. Jeffrey Bone - The Uninvited Guest: Understanding Chronic Pain 1:02:49
  18. TPF #28: The Right Forest: How to Choose Correctly to Avoid Emotional Pain 13:41
  19. TPF #27: Adriene Caldwell - From Trauma to Triumph: Healing from Childhood Abuse 51:27
  20. TPF #26: Nancy Deyo - From perfectionism to pain to true freedom 1:03:11
  21. TPF #25: Dr. Jess Armine - Chronic illness: Overwhelmed, not broken 1:10:04
  22. TPF #24: Brian Desroches - Why Your Brain Protects You from Change 58:19
  23. TPF #23: Linda Feig Knipe - Therapy, or why asking for help works 1:08:47
  24. TPF #22: Asher Lester - Pain and growth 1:08:24
  25. TPF #21: Leigh Brandon - Pain: our greatest gift? 1:13:20
  26. TPF #20: Gwen Bernardo - The emotional weight of pain 40:21
  27. TPF #19: Lynn Banis - You are not broken: Navigating grief 51:15
  28. TPF #18: Garret Wood - Pain beyond physical symptoms 1:02:19
  29. TPF #17: Megha Parekh - Surviving trauma and transforming pain into strength 57:26
  30. TPF #16: Lisa Franz - A Life to Love 52:53
  31. TPF #15: Judy Gaman - Pain, balance and being at peace 55:41
  32. TPF #14: Darkness and Light 11:35
  33. TPF #13: Pain and Noise 16:33
  34. TPF #12: Flatlines 14:25
  35. TPF #11: A Life to Love 20:06
  36. TPF #10: Painkillers 18:24
  37. TPF #9: Pain and Psychological Therapy 18:18
  38. TPF #8: Pain and Toxic Positivity 18:10
  39. TPF #7: Pain and asking for help 17:39
  40. TPF #6: Super Pill 23:28
  41. TPF #5: Pain and the distractions of garbage 19:27
  42. TPF #4: Depression: The Relentless Beast 18:37
  43. TPF #3: The Useful Aspects of Pain 18:35
  44. TPF #2: The Negative Aspects of Pain 22:20
  45. TPF #1: What is Pain? 21:51
  46. TPF #0: Welcome to the TPF podcast 14:04