In this episode of Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness, Madeleine Lowry explores a topic that is rarely discussed: men and their pain. While chronic pain is often approached as a purely physical issue, this conversation looks at how emotional suppression, nervous system overload, and societal expectations uniquely impact men’s health.

Madeleine discusses how men are often conditioned to bury emotions such as grief, fear, anger, and sadness, and how these unresolved emotional experiences can become stored in the body as chronic pain, tension, fatigue, or other physical symptoms. She unpacks the mixed messages men receive about emotions—needing to control anger while also being rewarded for aggression, needing emotional awareness while fearing vulnerability.

You’ll learn how long-held roles and expectations—provider, protector, achiever—can keep the nervous system in a constant state of stress, and why pain may be the body’s signal that something deeper needs attention. Madeleine explains how subconscious neural retraining can safely release trapped emotional pain, helping the nervous system reset and allowing physical symptoms to shift.

This episode is an invitation to rethink pain—not as a personal failure or weakness, but as a meaningful message from the body that healing is possible.

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