Self-Healing Anxiety and Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today, we have the luminous Nicole Sachs, an LCSW, speaker, writer, podcaster, and psychotherapist who has dedicated her work to the treatment of emotional and physical chronic pain. In this episode, Nicole shares her fascinating story of healing her own debilitating back pain through mind/body medicine inspired by Dr. John Sarno who encouraged her to journal about her repressed emotions. Nicole reflects on the watershed moment when she wrote the words, “I hate being a mother,” a proclamation that released an emotional pressure valve and helped her heal her pain and ultimately enriched her relationship with her kids. Through the lens of motherhood, Caitlin and Nicole talk about the link between emotions, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, and how we can begin to free ourselves from their grips so that we can experience more connection and energy along our parenting journey.
Nicole has developed a process called JournalSpeak also known as “rage on the page,” a type of expressive writing therapy that rewires neural pathways that cause chronic symptoms. If your bullshit meter is going off, then lean into this episode even harder because Nicole is kind of amazing and certainly changed my preconceived notions about mind/body medicine.
Connect with Nicole Sachs:
Visit www.thecureforchronicpain.com to learn more about JournalSpeak and to find Nicole's membership community, retreats, and on-demand courses:
Listen to Caitlin on Nicole's podcast, Freedom From Chronic Pain: Finding Your Authentic Voice (and Humor) When Life is Hard with Caitlin Murray.
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| 0:00.0 | He told me that I needed to journal and I needed to get to the repressed emotions. |
| 0:09.0 | So when I unleashed them and I have a vent, my body's not going to be in fight or flight |
| 0:14.1 | and sending me these pain signals. |
| 0:15.6 | So I started to journal and I was writing about motherhood and I was writing all the things that |
| 0:22.1 | all of us can relate to. |
| 0:23.4 | I am tired. |
| 0:24.5 | I am overwhelmed. |
| 0:25.5 | I have two babies in cribs. |
| 0:27.0 | I have two babies in diapers. |
| 0:28.5 | This wasn't the plan. |
| 0:29.8 | I was going to have them further apart and that's just not how it went and all these things |
| 0:34.5 | that are true. |
| 0:35.4 | And I had a consciousness, a voice kind of that came in and said, you're lying. |
| 0:41.7 | There is no way that these boring everyday things are so dangerous to feel that they |
| 0:46.6 | are causing your nervous system to protect you with pain so bad you can't walk. |
| 0:50.7 | So what is really going on? And I just made a decision in that moment to say, |
| 0:58.4 | fuck it all and to tell the truth. And I wrote, I hate being a mother and I can't do it. And I'm |
| 1:06.8 | failing and I suck and I'm trapped and I am not going to survive this. |
| 1:17.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:19.3 | Thank you for coming back to listen to another fascinating episode of the Big Time Adulting |
| 1:23.3 | podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | Today is actually a very fascinating episode if I don't say so myself, or is it if I do |
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