Recovery Is Not a Straight Line (John Stracks, MD)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

John Stracks, MD, has been helping patients overcome their chronic pain for over a decade. Then last year, during a particularly stressful period of his life, he faced a case of symptoms that he couldn’t immediately solve. The patient? Himself. Join us as Dr. Stracks takes a journey inward: re-learning how to listen to his body, finding new ways to move on from his past, and discovering lessons to pass along to his patients.

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0:00.0	This is like mine, like body, a podcast about the surprising ways our thoughts and feelings impact our physical health.
0:22.1	I'm your host, Laura Sago, and on each episode, I will speak with researchers, physicians,
0:29.4	and ordinary people who have incredible stories to tell about the power of the mind-body connection.
0:35.8	This podcast is brought to you by Curable, an app that helps chronic pain through
0:41.3	evidence-based techniques like guided meditation, expressive writing, CBT techniques, and more.
0:48.0	You can download the Curable app on the Apple App Store, on the Google Play Store, or at our
0:53.0	website, www.gurablehealth.com.
0:58.0	Today on the show, we have our very first repeat guest, Dr. John Strax.
1:04.4	You may remember Dr. Strax from an episode we did last year called From Medical Mystery to MD.
1:11.6	For those of you who have not listened to that episode,
1:14.6	I highly recommend that you go back and do that now.
1:17.1	It's one of our most listened to episodes ever,
1:20.0	and also a great preamble to the story you're about to hear.
1:24.9	In his last visit with us, Dr. Strax told us about the mysterious aches and pains that plagued his college and early medicine years.
1:33.6	Today, he's back to share a very different kind of story with us.
1:37.8	He gets extremely candid about how leaving Northwestern to open his own medical practice
1:43.1	triggered the largest, longest, and most
1:46.1	difficult relapse of pain he's ever experienced. Stay tuned to hear how he fought through it,
1:52.8	where he is today, and what new insight he has for patients in light of this experience.
1:58.8	Let's dive in.
2:06.1	Thank you. in light of this experience. Let's dive in. Okay, Dr. Strax, we have you back for a second episode on Like Mind, Like Body.
2:12.5	Am I the first person be interviewed twice?
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