Karden Rabin, along with Jennifer Mann, co-authored the book The Secret Language of the Body: Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind. Karden started his career as a massage therapist and bodyworker, focusing on anatomy, function, and kinesiology. “It was all about structure and function.” However, as his career progressed, he found “many times, it doesn’t work.”

In this Episode:

🔹 How reading Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno changed Karden’s paradigm.

🔹 “In two chapters, he literally takes out a baseball bat and disassembles orthopedic assessment.”

🔹 How understanding the mindbody connection transformed Karden’s career, and also transformed how he relates to his own body.

🔹 Karden helps us connect somatics and the body to the psychological and emotional work we discuss on this podcast.

🔹 We define “somatic,” cuz it's a confusing and overused term.

🔹 “Somatic” just means “body,” or “of the body,” or “the body as experienced from within,” or “training attention onto the body.”

🔹 In the episode, Karden leads us through a somatic exercise to help us feel connected to our emotions.

🔹 This conversation will help you better understand the true connection between the brain, emotions, and the body. This will help you better understand how to heal.

Join us as we discuss how “emotion tends to be the hardest part to work with,” the repression of emotions, and how this all manifests somatically in the body as a “dangerous experience inside ourselves.” This is a meaningful conversation.

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Find Sean:

Website: mindbodymedicineforchronicpain.com

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Find Karden:

Website: somiainternational.com

Instagram: @kardenrabin

Book: The Secret Language of the Body

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Other Resources Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

You Are The One You’ve Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz

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…and you’re listening to Mindbody Medicine for Chronic Pain.

Therapist Sean Hershey, LCSW teaches you how to use psychological and emotional modalities to heal from chronic pain. Common conditions treated: Back Pain, Neck Pain, Hip Pain, Shoulder Pain, Knee Pain, Elbow Pain, Pain from Disc Bulges, Pain from Disc Degeneration, Sciatica, Neuropathy, Chronic Headaches, Migraine, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Pelvic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Many Eczema and Skin Conditions, Many Arthritic Presentations, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long Covid, Depression, and Anxiety.

Inspired by the pioneering work of Dr. John Sarno and all who’ve built upon his theories including: Nicole Sachs, Christina Sarno Horner, Dr. Howard Schubiner, Dr. Dan Ratner, Alan Gordon, the ATNS, and so many others.

Join us as we discuss: TMS, pain as a danger signal, the pain/threat cycle, healing through psychological work, healing through emotional work, healing through patiently attuning to your true self, trauma, healing as a work in progress, maddening frustration, glimmers of hope, elating successes... But most of all, join us because you don’t have to be alone in your pain. You don’t have to be alone in the hard work of healing. And you don’t have to be alone as this starts to work for you, and you begin to get better.

We’re all walking this path together. We’re right here with you.

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