S2E39 The Comfort Scale, Tracking Made Better For You
11/13/24 • 18 min
Today's short and sweet podcast that's about flipping a pretty standard practice that many people in pain do on their own and/or are directed by their healthcare providers to do, Tracking Symptoms, to one that's one that will develop increased health + wellbeing.
There's research that shows that tracking symptoms has a dark side, increasing distress, anxiety and symptoms. And from my expereince, tracking can hamper healing and brain rewiring.
In the episode notes I'll link to articles and studies as well as the image of The Comfort Scale. But I want to encourage you sink into your creativity and develop a way of tracking comfort that feels best to you. As with anything in mindbody practices, letting yourself be in process and explore with curiosity.
Articles -
https://www.wired.com/story/why-tracking-your-symptoms-can-make-you-feel-worse/
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_overcome_your_brains_fixation_on_bad_things
https://medicalfuturist.com/the-dark-side-of-health-trackers/
Roger's version of The Comfort Scale
https://hypnosishealthinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Comfort-Scale.pdf
If you make your own version, I would love love love to see it!
Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/
Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com
Today's short and sweet podcast that's about flipping a pretty standard practice that many people in pain do on their own and/or are directed by their healthcare providers to do, Tracking Symptoms, to one that's one that will develop increased health + wellbeing.
There's research that shows that tracking symptoms has a dark side, increasing distress, anxiety and symptoms. And from my expereince, tracking can hamper healing and brain rewiring.
In the episode notes I'll link to articles and studies as well as the image of The Comfort Scale. But I want to encourage you sink into your creativity and develop a way of tracking comfort that feels best to you. As with anything in mindbody practices, letting yourself be in process and explore with curiosity.
Articles -
https://www.wired.com/story/why-tracking-your-symptoms-can-make-you-feel-worse/
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_overcome_your_brains_fixation_on_bad_things
https://medicalfuturist.com/the-dark-side-of-health-trackers/
Roger's version of The Comfort Scale
https://hypnosishealthinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Comfort-Scale.pdf
If you make your own version, I would love love love to see it!
Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/
Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com
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S2E38 Cultivating Congruency For Self Connection
Today's podcast is a short response to what I've been noticing in myself or my clients when we're having a first response of reactivity, fear or self rejection.
This rewiring process of cultivating a sense of emotional congruency is about healing the threatening gap of self rejection, judgment and exiling. When we commit to being a safe landing place for our own emotions we can expand our sense of internal and external safety and lower the threat response in our body that keeps our muscles tight, our pain alarms ringing and teaches our brain that emotions and sensations are dangerous and need to be avoided.
There's no time like the present to start practicing how to cultivate coherence and self connection for healing.
Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
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Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com
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S2E40 Sam's Success Strategy
I hope you enjoy this conversation with my client Sam Cooper. They had been suffering for years with recurring back pain, that limited their mobility and their belief about their body's capacity as they aged. Through our work together they were able to return back to much loved and missed activities, expand into new ones as well as make significant life changes.
Sam is an AuDHD coach, a queer nonbinary femme (they/them), an intersectional feminist, and an elder millennial (Xennial). They help neurodivergent adults (ADHD, Autistic, AuDHD, OCD) who have unconventional lives to understand and embrace their unique neurotypes, so they can effectively minimize stress, overcome challenges, and improve their quality of life.
Unconventional Minds Coaching: https://unconventionalmindscoaching.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/unconventionalmindsadhd
Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
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Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com
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