Sharpen Your Healing Focus (Vanessa Blackstone, ACSW)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Are your goals setting yourself up for success? We create goals with the best intentions but often forget to acknowledge our personal needs and experiences along the way. On this episode of the Like Mind, Like Body podcast, Vanessa Blackstone, ACSW, joins host, Christie Uipi, LCSW to discuss personalizing, modifying, and focusing your healing goals for better outcomes.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Like Mind, Like Body.
0:11.1	I'm Christy Weepie, psychotherapist and founder of the Better Mind Center, where our team treats chronic symptoms one-on-one.
0:19.8	Today, I am teaming up with the Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center to share some of what we've learned in the process of welcoming hundreds of chronic pain sufferers into the therapy process over the years.
0:32.6	Through our initial conversations with patients, a few themes have emerged.
0:36.6	Many people begin the therapeutic process with similar goals. A lot of people initial conversations with patients, a few themes have emerged.
0:37.5	Many people begin the therapeutic process with similar goals.
0:40.8	A lot of people tell us they want to get completely out of pain.
0:45.0	Others tell us they want to make as much progress as quickly as they can.
0:49.2	Today we'll discuss how to approach healing in realistic, hopeful ways and how small adjustments to your goals may
0:55.9	make all the difference. As always, this podcast is brought to us by Curable. Curable is an app
1:02.9	and a recovery program designed to help you break free from chronic pain and symptoms. That
1:08.7	means if you've been struggling with symptoms for a while now,
1:11.8	it's absolutely time to give Curable a try. It takes the guesswork out of recovery by creating
1:17.4	a personalized roadmap for your healing journey. Learn more and get started for free at curable.com.
1:24.3	Joining me in conversation today is my friend and fellow pain therapist Vanessa Blackstone.
1:31.1	Vanessa is the executive director of the pain psychology center and a clinical trainer and
1:36.0	consultant at the pain reprocessing therapy center.
1:39.7	She is a direct transparent therapist specializing in mindfulness-based approaches.
1:45.5	She integrates cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapies with a solution-focused strengths-based approach.
1:52.2	Following her own personal recovery with chronic pain, Vanessa understands the importance of meeting
1:56.9	the unique needs of each patient. She also has a background in treating substance use
2:01.5	disorders, sex therapy, and couples therapy. Vanessa, it is so wonderful to have you in studio here
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