How to Create a Safe Space for Healing (Dr. Trung Ngo)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt that you simply don’t have the time, resources, or emotional bandwidth that it would take to heal? You’re not alone. In fact, according to Dr. Trung Ngo, this is one of the most common barriers to healing success. From his experiences as a refugee from Vietnam to his clinical work with complex, chronic diseases, Dr. Ngo has gained a deep understanding of the process of overcoming hardships. He shares an exciting new tool he’s using with patients to help them create a safe space for healing in their environment, The Weave.

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0:00.0	So imagine that you're driving on the highway of life. Now, if there's a problem with your car during the journey,
0:07.5	and we're talking specifically about pain here, you need to stop the car, get out, assess what's wrong,
0:16.0	and fix it. But do you have the capacity to make your way through traffic? To get to a place that's safe
0:23.9	to stop and get into the car, that's a question of resilience.
0:40.9	Welcome to like mind, Like Body. I'm your host, Laura Sago, and today on the show I am speaking with Dr. Chung-Mol, a former Vietnamese
0:49.2	refugee whose personal experiences have led him to dedicate his life to helping people in pain through a
0:56.7	resilience-based approach. For the past 15 years, he has been directing interdisciplinary
1:02.5	teams at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and at his own clinic, Nova Healthcare.
1:09.0	On today's show, he provides fascinating advice on how people in pain can take charge of their
1:15.6	resilience and why that might require some of the other factors in their life to shift
1:21.8	as well.
1:23.1	If you are joining us for the first time today, then a quick heads up that this podcast is a free resource
1:29.0	brought to you by Curable. Curable is an app, which was recently rated the number one highest
1:35.4	quality app for persistent pain in a large-scale peer-reviewed study. And if you're looking for
1:40.2	resources, the Curable app is a perfect place to start. You can try it for free at curable.com.
1:47.5	Now let's get to the interview.
1:53.1	Hello, Dr. No, thank you so much for joining us on the show today. We're so excited to have you here.
1:59.0	Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.
2:00.7	Today, everything that we are going to be talking about in this interview ladders back to the
2:06.8	concept of resilience, maximizing your resilience as an individual, but also making changes
2:13.4	to create an environment that is conducive to healing and maximizing resilience.
2:18.6	But the precursor to resilience, of course, is adversity.
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