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, Alex Klassen, to zoom in on neuroception: your body’s antenna that scans for danger before your thinking mind even has a chance to weigh in.

When your neuroception is sensitized, it starts overreading threat in everyday moments. That doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your alarm system is doing its job a little too aggressively.

From there, we share the simple but powerful idea from Pain Reprocessing Therapy :

Somatic tracking - using repeated calm, curious attention to sensations - helps the brain reappraise input from your body and environment as safe.

We guide a free anxiety meditation you can replay anytime to practice moving toward anxious sensations without spiraling, desensitizing your overprotective alarm system.

Tanner Murtagh and Anne Hampson are therapists who treat neuroplastic pain and mind-body symptoms. They are also married!

In his 20s, Tanner overcame chronic pain and a fibromyalgia diagnosis by learning his symptoms were neuroplastic, not structural. Post-healing, Tanner and Anne have dedicated their lives to developing effective treatment and education for neuroplastic pain and symptoms.

Listen and learn how to assess your own chronic pain and symptoms, gain tools to retrain the brain and nervous system, and make changes in your life and health!

The Mind-Body Couple podcast is owned by Pain Psychotherapy Canada Inc. This podcast is produced by Alex Klassen, one of the wonderful therapists at our agency in Calgary, Alberta. https://www.painpsychotherapy.ca/

Tanner, Anne, and Alex also run the MBody Community, an in-depth online course that provides a step-by-step process for assessing, treating, and resolving mind-body pain and symptoms. https://www.mbodycommunity.com

Check out Tanner's YouTube channel for more free education and practices: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Fl6WaFHnh4ponuexaMbFQ

And follow us for daily education posts on Instagram: @painpsychotherapy

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