The Mind-Body Couple

6 Common Chronic Pain/Symptom Triggers & What To Do

Tanner & Anne share 6 surprisingly common situations that can trigger chronic pain and other neuroplastic symptoms. From travel, to family, to grocery shopping, we discu

The Return of Spontaneity: A Great Sign of Chronic Pain/Symptom Recovery

Tanner and Anne explore how chronic pain and symptoms quietly take away spontaneity and replace it with fear-based planning and calculation, meant to protect from flare-u

3 Ways You Accidentally Teach Your Brain Danger

Tanner & Anne unpack 3 subtle habits that can keep your nervous system stuck in danger mode, even when you are doing everything you can to heal neuroplastic pain & sympto

The Top 5 Signs My Pain & Symptoms Were Neuroplastic

Tanner and Anne share five personal, practical signs that helped Tanner recognize his chronic pain and symptoms were neuroplastic rather than structural. We explain why

How To Break A Negative Self-Talk Loop (With Free Meditation)

Tanner explains how danger self-talk can keep the nervous system dysregulated by continually reinforcing a sense of danger. When your nervous system is dysregulated, your

(Revised) Why People Don't Understand Your Chronic Pain/Symptoms (And What To Do!)

We read out the kinds of comments so many listeners have heard:  “it’s all in your head,” “just push through,” “you look fine” We unpack why those words  spike fear, is

Chronic Pain/Symptoms Are Actually The Side Effect (Find the Root Cause!)

In today's episode, Tanner and Anne provide ideas on how to get to the root cause of your chronic pain or symptoms. Neuroplastic pain/symptoms occur when there&apos

Dr. Howard Schubiner Explains: How to Unlearn Your Pain

Dr. Howard Schubiner just might be the most experienced and knowledgable physician on the planet, when it comes to the research and treatment of neuroplastic pain and sym

Healing Your Anxiety AND Chronic Pain/Symptoms (With Free Practice)

Anxiety feels chronic for many of us, and it gets even harder when it increases due to chronic pain and symptoms. Tanner sits down with our producer and fellow therapist

Why Do Women Experience More Chronic Pain & Symptoms?

The rules many women are handed... be agreeable, don’t be too much, handle everything... aren’t just exhausting. They reshape the nervous system’s sense of safety and can

How to Find The Right Therapist for Chronic Pain & Symptom Recovery

If you're using a mind-body approach to heal your chronic pain/symptoms, the right therapist is a game-changer. Tanner sits down with fellow chronic pain psychother

Somatic Tracking for Chronic Pain & Symptoms: Free Guide

Tanner hosts a solo episode, sharing a free somatic tracking practice from the MBody Community digital course. Tanner first explains how chronic pain and symptoms can be

Treat the Root Cause: Fatigue & Long Covid feat. Dr. Kennedy

In this episode, we are joined by one of the world's leading expert physicians on neuroplastic pain and symptoms. Dr. Rebecca Kennedy sits down with Tanner, sharing

Trauma Triggers: What can I do when I freeze?

We answer a listener’s question about the freeze response, teaching a straightforward method to move from freeze to safety. We normalize triggers and provide practical id

THE #1 Strategy to Cure Neuroplastic Pain or Symptoms

In this special episode, where we're joined by our producer (and fellow psychotherapist) Alex Klassen. We each showed up - without any previous conversation -  read

Career Success While Healing Chronic Symptoms

Ambition doesn’t have to cost your health. We start with the core problem: living neck up. Our culture rewards cognition—thinking, fixing, producing—while the body’s sig

Work Somatically to Heal Trauma

We answer Joni’s question about healing medical trauma after a health scare and show how to restore nervous system regulation using embodiment, exposure, and personal saf

Make 2026 The Year You Heal Chronic Pain and Symptoms

Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.ca Ready to make 2026 the year you unlearn chronic pain or symptoms? We’re laying out 4

Holiday Survival Guide For Chronic Pain & Illness

Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.ca The holidays can be filled with joy, but for many living with chronic pain or chroni

Can You Combine Physiotherapy with a Neuroplastic Approach? - with Jim Prussack Jr. MPT, MMT

What if the most powerful lever for chronic pain isn’t in your muscles or joints, but in your brain’s pain system? We sit down with Jim Prussack a physiotherapist who lef