Crushing Doubt

This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiological processes to relieve — or even cure — many symptoms, from head to toe.

In our How To series, I cover the concept of cognitive load — the invisible, internal burdens we can carry, even when nothing inherently stressful is happening in the external world. I give examples of how other people, situations, or even our own thinking can add extra burdens to our internal experience, as well as considering the considerable cost that comes from this kind of experience.

On this episode of Crushing Doubt, I sat down to interview UK psychotherapist, Carole Randell, another mind body clinician who discovered a way to defeat her chronic fatigue syndrome through the work of Dr. Sarno. As with so many of these interviews of my colleagues in the field, this discussion allowed me to keep learning how other mind body practitioners work, but also to continue to build a closer community of peers to compare ideas and, as a result, help pain sufferers everywhere.

Today, on Crushing Doubt, I have the pleasure of sitting down with actor Real Andrews, one of the stars of General Hospital, to discuss his passionate support of mental health awareness and open discussion of the issues we all face. Real shares his harrowing story of not being aware of so much of his emotional pain, leading him to engage in all sorts of efforts to make himself feel better that only led to more pain and suffering for him.

In this week’s episode of our Mind Body Connection series, I take a closer look at what is happening physiologically that explains the mechanisms behind mind body pain and other symptoms. I outline the broader perspective on what goes on between the brain and the body that can account for ALL non-medical symptoms. By understanding these functions, many can get relief from a major source of their doubt.

This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiological processes to relieve — or even cure — many symptoms, from head to toe.

In our How To Series, I lay out the various ways I think about the three columns — emotions, doubt, and power — so that you can not only form a good plan for recovery but also remember it, which will obviously be key to your getting better. It can often be hard, in the moment, to hold onto the information, even once you’ve been given it, because there can be so much anxiety in having symptoms or so much doubt that rises to the surface, leaving you confused, afraid, or riddled with questions.

I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Fran Sommer Anderson, one of Dr. Sarno and Arlene Feinblatt’s early trainees in treating mind body issues. Fran shares much in common with so many of the mind body practitioners out there — warm, unassuming, modest, kind, and a goodist through and through.

On Crushing Doubt, I always enjoy bringing stories of recovery to light and highlighting the things that helped people most. Today, I was thrilled to bring on Sofia, who had chronic, horrific arm and hand pain that was stopping her from being able to do her work and enjoy her life.

On this edition of the Mind Body Connection Series, I discuss how the three columns — emotions, doubt, and power — can be used to work together for the most effective and efficient mind body treatment possible. One of the reasons I developed the system of understanding mind body experience in the way that I did is that it simply described what I had experienced and found to work in reducing symptoms.