Crushing Doubt

On the second episode of Crushing Doubt, Dan interviews Eddy Lindenstein, competitive weightlifter and the host of The Mind and Fitness Podcast. Eddy and Dan share their bonds over chronic pain and their recoveries, focusing on the roadblocks and system failures that got in the way of their getting better more quickly or even having hope, at times, along the way that they would get better at all.

Julie and Dan discuss the nature of doubt and how the identities we cling to for ourselves can make for a self critical response that gets in the way of self understanding and healing. The two compare notes on how to understand the way our bodies communicate with our minds to convey the ways we are hurting or suffering. After Eddy’s interview, Julie and Dan explore themes of masculinity, how to open up to others, and the power that can come with such a brave step.

The podcast closes as Dan considers some frequently asked questions he encounters in trying to help patients resolve their doubt, understand their emotions, and reduce or eradicate their symptoms.

On the premiere episode of crushing doubt, renowned pain psychologist, Dr. Dan Ratner, and his cohost, Julie Konrad, discuss the importance of doubt in society and in addressing pain and other symptoms effectively. We begin a long look at how to alleviate pain and other symptoms by changing thoughts to change physiology. Dr. Ratner reveals some of the inside tricks of the trade of rapid symptom relief.

Guest Witalij Martynow, athlete and author, shares his inspiring story of recovery, working with Dr. Dan in 2018, including the book he wrote from the experience of feeling his life was over to feeling more empowered than ever just weeks later. Dr. Dan helps elucidate why the ability to be personally powerful is so intertwined with mastery over symptoms of the mind-body variety. This unique brand of alternative medicine relies on science and logic to expand the mind and gain greater control over bodily experience.