The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

By Nicole Sachs, LCSW

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Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, and psychotherapist who has dedicated her life and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain and conditions. She is the author of The Meaning of Truth, and the online course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN. Through her personal journey working directly with Dr. John Sarno as well as counseling hundreds of clients, she's shaped and evolved theories which serve to teach those suffering how to heal themselves, completely, with no medication or surgery. Learn more about Nicole's work at thecureforchronicpain.com (http://www.thecureforchronicpain.com), and check out her YouTube channel The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-tz1Du69PhcBkC3-9_Mgmw?view_as=subscriber)

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We all do it, and most of it is unconscious. We "seek" out relationships - friendships and love relationships - that mirror unresolved ones from childhood. Sometimes people treat us with neglect, abuse, shaming, gaslighting, judgement. Sometimes they are overidentified ...

The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW episodes:

09.17.2021 151: Episode 151 - Trauma Bonding We all do it, and most of it is unconscious. We "seek" out relationships - friendships and love relationships - that mirror unresolved ones from childhood. Sometimes people treat us with neglect, abuse, shaming, gaslighting, judgement. Sometimes they are overidentified ...
09.10.2021 150: Episode 150 - REAL TIME HEAL - Childhood Trauma, Back Pain, Depression, and More with Mariel My interview with Mariel started out as a success story - because she is! Mariel was so debilitated with pain that she was actively contemplating ending her life, and now she is amazing with 80% of her severe pain gone. ...
09.03.2021 149: Episode 149 - The Real Reason Parenting is Hard We all feel so overwhelmed by the needs of others, and the way it feels to withstand their struggles - whether it be our children, or other significant people in our lives. But what if our suffering over their suffering ...
08.27.2021 148: Episode 148 - Post Viral Myalgia, Anxiety, Vertigo and more with Shelly Wow - Shelly had so many diagnoses I had to pick just a few to put on the title of this episode. She was also dealing with many heavy life stressors. In the end, Shelly is grateful for the pain, ...
08.20.2021 147: EPISODE 147 - Subconsciously Wanting to be Rescued is a Trauma Response It is normal and natural to want help, support, love, kindness, and ease. The trouble arises when we want to be "rescued", often subconsciously, from the struggles of life. This can be a response to the trauma of not getting ...
08.13.2021 146: Episode 146 - Tinnitus and Vestibular Disease with Rachelle Rachelle suffered immensely with the symptoms of dizziness and tinnitus. I hear from many people around the world about their struggles with these life-stopping symptoms, and Rachelle was no different. Her journey was a scary, painful, and frustrating one, but ...
08.06.2021 145: Episode 145 - Embracing a Greater Perspective on Life Today is a bit of a mini-sode. I am about to leave for OMEGA and I didn't want to leave you without a pod this week. It's little, but it's mighty. Listen with your whole heart. The only thing that ...
07.30.2021 144: Episode 144 - Severe Back Pain with Joe Tunon Joe Tunon was my very first truth warrior. His YouTube videos have helped many thousands of people walk this path with confidence, and faith in the process. I'm so thrilled to share his story now with my podcast audience. Joe ...
07.23.2021 143: Episode 143 - Grief and Self-Care When grief hits, no matter how "prepared" you may be, it can feel like an attack to the Nervous System. For me, in these past few weeks following the Surfside, Miami building collapse and the loss of my dear friend ...
07.16.2021 142: Episode 142 - Plantar Fasciitis, Chronic Fatigue, and Elimination Diets with Ruthie Ruthie's story typifies my strongest feeling about this work: Chronic pain is an epidemic of fear. Her foot pain, which started in one localized place, soon ballooned into pain in 11 places in her body. Fear begot fear, and Dr. ...
07.09.2021 141: EPISODE 141 - The Battle Between Self-Regulation and Emotional Expression From an early age we are stuck in an impossible conflict: Do we express ourselves fully and with reckless abandon, or self-regulate per society's wishes and repress hella emotions in the process. Today on the pod we discuss this inevitable ...
07.02.2021 140: Episode 140 - Childhood Trauma, Highly Sensitive People, and JournalSpeak with Dani Dani is my best friend and trusted sister, and also - as life would have it - a person who needed JournalSpeak really badly. Born highly sensitive and raised with a great deal of childhood trauma, Dani found herself with ...
06.25.2021 139: EPISODE 139 - How To Accept Yourself More So often I am asked about self-love. "How can I love myself, Nicole? It feels so hard." I get it. Self-love can seem so elusive. In my opinion, the route to self-love runs through the river of self-acceptance. There are ...
06.18.2021 138: Episode 138 - REAL TIME HEAL: Anxiety, OCD, and the Mother Wound with Crystal Trigger Warning: THIS REAL TIME HEAL WILL DISCUSS CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Crystal is an incredible, brave, and insightful soul. When she was five, she suffered abuse at the hand of a friend's father and her life was never the same. ...
06.11.2021 137: Episode 137 - You Are Not Your Trauma Responses So often we walk through life reacting and responding to situations, with no idea that it's not just "the way we are". Trauma responses are ways of behaving that are created and informed by the trauma we experienced as we ...
06.04.2021 136: Episode 16 - Pelvic Pain Recovery and Bladder Urgency with Hannah Matluck I met Hannah Matluck of The V Hive (formerly The Women's Pelvic Pain Podcast) somewhat randomly a couple years ago when she wanted me to speak as an expert on her podcast. Little did either of us know how much ...
05.28.2021 135: EPISODE 13 - Our Addiction to Control I have been in the grips of physical and mental "control addiction" for a lifetime. Well, for most of a lifetime. Through loving, patient, and consistent work on myself, I have been able to let it go to a large ...
05.21.2021 134: Episode 134 - Janette Barber, Dr. Sarno & Me: The Beginning of Everything Anyone who knows my story from the beginning has heard the name Janette Barber. Janette was Rosie O'Donnell's producer in the 90's, when Rosie's show was topping the ratings. She was also in a motorized wheelchair as a result of ...
05.14.2021 133: Episode 133 - The Power of "Miracle" Stories (and ocular migraines) I have a complicated relationship with the word "miracle". Although I balk at any religious connotation, or implication that a "miracle" implies something bestowed upon us (rather than created BY us), I can't deny the miraculous quality of the healing ...
05.07.2021 132: EPISODE 132 - REAL TIME HEAL: Tinnitus, Inner Child Work, and Overcoming Our Upbringing with Liz Liz grew up in a religious home with very few choices on what she could think, feel, or do. Her journey led her to uncover some deception which opened her to a new path, and also a lot of chronic ...
04.30.2021 131: EPISODE 131 - The "Fawning" Trauma Response and People Pleasing Wow, did I get a response from my Instagram Community when I posted a video on fawning! Like me, so many of us fall into the pattern of this trauma-responsive people pleasing behavior in order to keep ourselves from further ...
04.23.2021 130: Episode 130 - From Crippling Back Pain and Vertigo to Freedom with Ann Who doesn't love a success story?? This one made me smile from ear to ear. I swear my face hurt. Ann has a beautiful understanding and respect for this work, and was so brave and patient as her sweet MindBody ...
04.16.2021 129: Episode 129 - Transforming FEAR (and other big feelings) There is a difference between fear (and other big feelings) that are meant to alert us to real distress, and those that are simply sent by the Nervous System as a result of the perception of danger. Today, we parse ...
04.09.2021 128: Episode 128 - REAL TIME HEAL - Failed Back Surgery and Panic Attacks with Sophia Another beautiful REAL TIME HEAL. Sophia is only 28, but her body has felt much older. Join us for a poignant and healing conversation about childhood struggles, debilitating back and hip pain, and panic attacks that changed the course of ...
04.02.2021 127: Episode 127 - Manifesting Peace of Mind in the Moment Every moment is an opportunity to manifest fear and stress, or peace and presence. We just don't always know how to do this, as we are stuck in the small boxes of our own perception. This can be further exacerbated ...
03.26.2021 126: IBS and JournalSpeak Revelations with Lisa Schlosberg, LMSW Lisa and I sit down for another epic conversation about the magic of this work. We named this episode "What Happens After the After Picture". As a society, we are obsessed with the before and after, the makeover... the result. ...
03.19.2021 125: EPISODE 125 - Speaking the Unspeakable: A JournalSpeak Intensive You may have heard the story of JournalSpeak before, but probably not like this. Today I dig deep and tell you the emotional story of JournalSpeak's birth, as well as explain more details in order to help you to go ...
03.12.2021 124: EPISODE 124 - REAL TIME HEAL - Recovery from IC and Struggles with Dry Eye with Kimberly Amazing. Incredible. Moving. Authentic. I could go on. I freaking love Real Time Heals. It is such a privilege to sit with a brave soul and allow some capital T Truth to come out and be honored. This conversation is ...
03.05.2021 123: Episode 123 - Sending the Nervous System a Message of Safety So often as human beings, we are hard wired to go go go. We want to achieve, to be "done", to check the box and get the A. Even if you aren't that kind of a driven person, most of ...
02.26.2021 122: Episode 122 - Recovery From Covid Long Haul with Lieke The moment I heard the symptoms and description of what has come to be known as "Covid Long Haul", I knew it was TMS. I have been treating brain fog, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, burning throat and mouth, ...
02.19.2021 121: EPISODE 121 - "Pre-Grieving" is Stealing Your Moments Today on the pod we tackle one of the biggest obstacles to human personal peace - pre-grieving. Pre-grieving is when we worry about future events (and the pain and suffering connected to them) to such an extent that we steal ...
02.12.2021 120: EPISODE 120 - The Role of Physical Therapy in TMS Work with Kathy Year ago when I met Dr. Sarno, he explained to me why he no longer prescribed Physical Therapy. He said that when people focused so much on a "physical solution" for an issue that has an emotional genesis, they would ...
02.05.2021 119: EPISODE 119 - Emotional Boundaries Hello loves. Today on the pod we talk about the essential work of boundary awareness, setting, and enforcing (holding). This is not just true of physical and mental boundaries. Setting emotional boundaries within ourselves (figuring out what is ours and ...
01.29.2021 118: EPISODE 118 - REAL TIME HEAL - Plaque Psoriasis and Inner Rage with Shannon What a lovely Real Time Heal this was. Shannon has dealt with TMS her whole life - she just didn't know it. Headaches for days, chronic strep throat, and more. She was just always sick. Then when she was 14 ...
01.22.2021 117: Episode 117 - When We Suffer, We Suffer the Same Pema Chodron says, “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when ...
01.15.2021 116: EPISODE 116 - Severe Pelvic Pain and Multiple Surgeries with Kitty It's not every day you hear a story like Kitty's. Lost in fear and the confusion of the medical model, Kitty endured multiple unnecessary surgeries and grim diagnoses. On the brink of giving up completely on life, she found this ...
01.08.2021 115: EPISODE 115 - The Obstacles in The Path are The Path Hello lovely people. Today we tackle a big topic when it comes to growth - accepting that we need to turn and face our obstacles, not run from them. Indeed, it is the only thing that allows us to grow. ...
01.01.2021 114: NEW YEAR'S INSPIRATION - From Chronic Pain to Freedom with Jonna Happy New Year fam! Who's sad to say goodbye to 2020?? I know that 2021 won't magically bring peace, but I for one am just going to look ahead and look up. Today I bring you a moving (beyond) and ...
12.25.2020 113: Meditation is For You, Too. (yes, you.) MERRY CHRISTMAS to my peeps who celebrate! On this xmas episode, I share with you a great gift in my own life: my meditation practice. I thought I was a fast moving quick thinking crazy person who could never ever ...
12.18.2020 112: EPISODE 112 - REAL TIME HEAL: An Alcoholic Home, Fibromyalgia, and Social Anxiety with Angela Growing up with a severely abusive alcoholic father and battered mother has left its emotional scars on Angela. She hit a wall in her 30s and her body simply shut down. She was wracked with all over body pain diagnosed ...
12.11.2020 111: EPISODE 111 - Anxiety is Not a Disorder I know we feel disordered when we are anxious, whether the anxiety shows up physically, behaviorally, emotionally, psychologically, or all of the above. We feel disordered, and it disorders our lives. Yes. But anxiety, in itself, is not a disorder. ...
12.04.2020 110: EPISODE 110 - Moving Stored Trauma and Somatic Experiencing with Caroline Dewey, LCSW I met Caroline at an incredibly low time in my life, and her light and wisdom helped to lift me out. I have deep respect for her expertise, empathy, and grace in guiding people through this work. For those of ...
11.27.2020 109: EPISODE 109 - Family Conflict, Anxiety, and Emotional Repression Happy Podcast Day and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans :) Today we talk about a really timely topic for this "hurricane season" of the Holidays - how to be with family and friends, and tolerate any anxiety and conflict ...
11.20.2020 108: Episode 108 - REAL TIME HEAL: GI Issues, IC, Food Fear, and Grief with Bri Buckle up for another amazing and heart opening Real Time Heal. Bri is an incredible woman. She has lived through so much in a short period of time, and with the help of this work is well on her way ...
11.13.2020 107: Episode 107 - Anxiety, Fear, Grief... Let It Belong Today is a great chat on the concept of acceptance, and letting our ugly parts belong with us rather than shoving them away. Originally from the work of Tara Brach, I love the concept of "let it belong". Tune into ...
11.06.2020 106: Episode 106 - Dermatitis of the Eyes and Transforming Fear with Elizabeth Kott I met Elizabeth Kott of That's So Retrograde 2 years ago when she invited me onto her podcast to discuss Freedom From Chronic Pain. Little did we know that it would also launch her into a journey to confront her ...
10.30.2020 105: Episode 105 - Anger and Resentment From Lack of Boundaries and Self Care So much of the anger and resentment we carry for others is due to our own lack of boundaries and self care. This is not your fault, but it is within your power to change. If you find yourself resenting ...
10.23.2020 104: From Back Pain and Anxiety to a Life Reimagined with Dani Fagan The first time I spoke to Dani on this podcast (ep #66) she was in the midst of an awakening - for the first time in 3 years (when at times she'd been in a wheelchair to manage her back ...
10.16.2020 103: EPISODE 103 - Healing the Wounds of Childhood Sometimes on the podcast I share really personally, about my own journey and the things that have been setting me free lately. Today is one of those days. The biggest barrier in healing the wounds of childhood is making the ...
10.09.2020 102: EPISODE 102 - REAL TIME HEAL - Crippling Anxiety, Chest Pain, and Neuralgias with Felicia The day I saw Felisha's first post in my Instagram community I was definitely concerned. Her despair was so thick, her hope so low. This is precisely the reason that I have been so inspired by her journey. This was ...

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