Back in Control with David Hanscom, MD

Back in Control with David Hanscom, MD

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Back in Control with David Hanscom, MD episodes

  • Exercising Well to Heal and Strengthen Resilience

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Janet Huehls a clinician, coach, and educator. She explains that current weight loss approaches focus on calories in and out rather than addressing underlying physiological issues. She describes two scenarios where people's physiology is either functioning well but being incorrectly labeled as unhealthy due to weight gain, or where they genuinely need physiological intervention due to high body fat and inflammation. She emphasizes that exercise often becomes a source of stress in these situations, particularly when people are told to "exercise to lose weight," which can worsen their health rather than improve it.

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    Janet Huehls is a clinician, coach, and educator transforming exercise from something people feel they should do into a resource for whole-person well-being. For over 30 years, she has guided individuals with medical conditions to use movement in ways that support healing, function, and quality of life. Her evidence-based method blends movement science, motivation science, and mindfulness to reduce pain, stress, and low motivation so people can Be Well Now. She holds a master’s degree in

    Clinical Exercise Physiology and is a national board-certified health coach and certified yoga teacher. For more information visit: 

    https://exercisingwell.com.

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    28 min
  • Building Bridges to Heal and Thrive

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Cynthia Austin, a board-certified health and wellness coach.  She discusses the role of emotions in healing, and notes that learning to feel emotions is part of the healing process. She emphasizes the role of personal agency and lifestyle changes in recovery. She explains her treatment approach which includes: sharing her own story with clients as a way to build trust; a hybrid self-paced course that educates them about pain neuroscience and the importance of restoring balance with self, and regulating thoughts, emotions and behaviors and coaching sessions to help them integrate this learning into life.

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    Cynthia Austin is a board-certified health coach who helps people change their pain experience.  She created her business, My Pain Coach and her programs, to support those living with pain. Cynthia blends professional coaching and pain neuroscience with nearly five decades of lived experience with chronic pain and illness.  Having overcome conditions like migraine, fibromyalgia, back pain, and other debilitating challenges, she now guides others through the complex, often confusing process of changing the pain experience.  For more information, visit: https://mypaincoachllc.com.

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    26 min
  • Healing Through Believing and Agency

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Cynthia Austin, a board-certified and wellness health coach. She shares her background of transitioning from accounting to helping people manage their pain

    experiences after dealing with migraines since childhood and encountering
    limitations in traditional medical systems. She describes how her own research and legislative advocacy work led her to understand the role of the brain, nervous system, and behavior change in pain management, ultimately leading her to become a health and wellness coach to help others navigate their pain experiences.

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    Cynthia Austin is a board-certified health coach who helps

    people change their pain experience. 
    She created her business, My Pain Coach and her programs, to support those
    living with pain. Cynthia blends professional coaching and pain neuroscience
    with nearly five decades of lived experience with chronic pain and illness.  Having overcome conditions like migraine, fibromyalgia, back pain, and other debilitating challenges, she now guides others through the complex, often confusing process of changing the pain experience.  For more information, visit: https://mypaincoachllc.com.

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    26 min
  • Healing through Love and Science

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with writer and spiritual teach Regan Caruthers.  She discusses her approach to healing, which combines spiritual practices with HeartMath techniques to help people regulate their autonomic nervous system and access a state of love and gratitude. She emphasizes the importance of a disciplined practice and the power of love to heal, both physically and emotionally. She also shares her own miraculous recovery from emergency open heart surgery, which she attributed to divine guidance.

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    Regan Caruthers is a writer and spiritual teacher whose life has been shaped by an early education rooted in contemplative practice, including daily meditation, tai chi, devotional singing, and direct exploration of the human energy field. From a young age, she learned to attune to divine guidance—an embodied intelligence that has repeatedly proven life-saving. She

    is the author of Tragic Magic and the founder of ASET Yoga Center, where
    she integrates the original heart-centered teachings of Jesus, the yoga
    tradition, and heart-based science. Her professional background includes
    corporate leadership in Silicon Valley, management of academic innovation
    initiatives for the California State University system, and work on staff at
    the HeartMath Institute, where she taught HeartMath programs to business
    audiences.

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    26 min
  • The Healing Journey of a Spiritual Teacher

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with writer and spiritual teacher Regan Caruthers. She shares her early education in meditation and contemplative practices, influenced by her unconventional mother and her

    own spiritual awakening at age 27. She talks about her personal experience of overcoming a traumatic childhood event through spiritual practice, highlighting the importance of bringing love to unhealed parts of oneself. Through these experiences and her work at the HeartMath Institute, she learned that reprogramming the brain through awareness and love is essential to healing for those in severe pain.

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    Regan Caruthers is a writer and spiritual teacher whose life has been shaped by an early education rooted in contemplative practice, including daily meditation, tai chi, devotional singing, and direct exploration of the human energy field. From a young age, she learned to attune to divine guidance—an embodied intelligence that has repeatedly proven life-saving. She

    is the author of Tragic Magic and the founder of ASET Yoga Center, where
    she integrates the original heart-centered teachings of Jesus, the yoga
    tradition, and heart-based science. Her professional background includes
    corporate leadership in Silicon Valley, management of academic innovation
    initiatives for the California State University system, and work on staff at the HeartMath Institute, where she taught HeartMath programs to business
    audiences.

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    29 min
  • Empowering Communities of Recovery

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Executive Director of the Empower2Recover Foundation, Jay Barnard.  He discusses his the evolution of his nonprofit, Empower2Recver, from focusing on addiction prevention to addressing trauma and recovery in a more inclusive way. He explains its mission to bring people together to share stories and access resources for various forms of trauma and recovery. He also talks about its plans to introduce the Global Recovery Community (GRC) project, which aims to create an online directory to help people find appropriate support services.


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    Chef Recovery Jay Barnard is a keynote speaker, culinary professional, and person in long-term recovery who uses his lived experience to inspire hope, healing, and transformation. As the Executive Director of the

    Empower2Recover Foundation, Jay leads a National movement delivering
    trauma-informed mental health, addiction, and recovery events across
    communities and Indigenous Nations. Blending his journey from addiction to
    recovery with his passion for food, Jay shows how purpose, culture, and
    connection can change lives. Through storytelling, service, and the kitchen,
    Chef Recovery continues to turn pain into purpose and recovery into action.

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    30 min
  • Becoming Empowered: A Personal Journey Out of Addiction

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Executive Director of the Empower2Recover Foundation, Jay Barnard. He shares his personal

    experience of struggling with substance abuse, including multiple arrests and a year-long sentence in Penetang Penitentiary, which he served for driving under suspension. As part of his release, he entered counseling, which resulted in his enrollment at the Salvation Army Anchorage Boost Center in Ottawa, Ontario, where he achieved sobriety on February 11, 2008. He went on to start and run a nonprofit, the Empower2Recover Foundation, which works with individuals to help them deal with trauma, addiction and recovery.


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    Chef Recovery Jay Barnard is a keynote speaker, culinary professional, and person in long-term recovery who uses his lived experience to inspire hope, healing, and transformation. As the Executive Director of the

    Empower2Recover Foundation, Jay leads a National movement delivering
    trauma-informed mental health, addiction, and recovery events across
    communities and Indigenous Nations. Blending his journey from addiction to
    recovery with his passion for food, Jay shows how purpose, culture, and
    connection can change lives. Through storytelling, service, and the kitchen,
    Chef Recovery continues to turn pain into purpose and recovery into action.

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    26 min
  • A SAGE Approach to Healing

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with retired psychotherapist and author Jake Eagle.  He discussed the SAGE process, which focuses on subjective awareness and genuine expression to help individuals cultivate inner security and personal agency. He explains how taking responsibility for emotions, rather than blaming others, can lead to personal growth and healing. He shares success stories from his work with couples and highlights the effectiveness of the SAGE process when individuals commit to it fully. He also talks about the challenges of breaking ingrained patterns, especially when anger is involved, and the role of metacognition in overcoming these obstacles.

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    Jake Eagle is the co-creator of the S.A.G.E. process — Subjective Awareness and Genuine Expression — a framework for helping people cultivate inner security, personal agency, and healthier relationships with themselves and others. For over twenty years, he and his wife Hannah worked with individuals and groups exploring how language, perception, and meaning

    shape the nervous system and human experience. Jake is a retired psychotherapist and the author of The Power of Awe, a book about how moments of awe can help people shift out of threat, reconnect with themselves, and feel more alive and at ease.
    His work invites people to move beyond reactivity and self-blame into clarity, self-regulation, and genuine connection.

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    31 min
  • The Role of Language, Perception & Meaning in Healing

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with retired psychotherapist and author Jake Eagle. He discusses how the work of John and Joyce Weir, who

    developed a unique psychological approach called Percept Language in the 1950s, led he and his wife Hannah to create the SAGE process. It focuses on
    understanding people's internal subjective experiences through present-tense language. He explains how the SAGE approach (Subjective Awareness, Genuine Expression), has significantly improved his professional work and led to a better understanding of how language perception and meaning shape the nervous system and human experience.

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    Jake Eagle is the co-creator of the S.A.G.E. process — Subjective Awareness and Genuine Expression — a framework for helping people cultivate inner security, personal agency, and healthier relationships with themselves and others. For over twenty years, he and his wife Hannah worked with individuals and groups exploring how language, perception, and meaning

    shape the nervous system and human experience. Jake is a retired psychotherapist and the author of The Power of Awe, a book about how moments of awe can help people shift out of threat, reconnect with themselves, and feel more alive and at ease.
    His work invites people to move beyond reactivity and self-blame into clarity, self-regulation, and genuine connection.

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    29 min
  • The Patterns of Chronic Pain

    In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Rick Olderman, a sports and orthopedic physical therapist. He discusses

    his approach to treating chronic back pain by identifying and correcting three fundamental patterns: extension, flexion, and side-bending problems. He explains how these patterns are often caused by repetitive movements and compensatory behaviors, and how addressing the underlying issues can lead to significant pain relief. He emphasizes the importance of looking at the whole person and considering factors such as walking patterns, fascial tension, and reflex patterns. He also shares insights on how stress and emotional factors can contribute to pain through chemical responses in the body.

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    28 min

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