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Today we’ll be talking about chronic pain and how your nervous system can get stuck in a feedback loop where you can make your pain or anxiety worse without realizing it.
So today I’ve invited a guest, Celine Tien, the principal investigator on NIHbacked trials studying chronic pain management and opioid use reduction
Celine graduated with distinction from Yale and also worked with DreamWorks. And she's the founder of Flowly, an NIHbacked app that is designed for chronic pain, anxiety, and sleep management.
Celine has spent the last half decade studying how chronic pain can become exacerbated through your nervous system response, and even more importantly she’s studied some practical ways to teach people how to regulate their nervous system to treat chronic pain. Celine has been working on an NIHfunded program to study the use of biofeedback and VR to treat chronic pain and opioid addiction, and their research has shown some really positive results.
Pain is your body’s perception of danger. It triggers you to treat a wounded limb gently so it can heal.
But when your learned reaction to pain is to clench, to tighten, to fear, to stress, that decreases your body’s ability to adapt to pain. It decreases the immune response, it makes healing slower, and it burns a ton of energy in stress and fear. And that can make pain worse. It also tells your mind to pay more attention to the pain.
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In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a biopsychosocial approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mindbody connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.
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