The Curiosity Cure - MindBody Wellness – Details, episodes & analysis

Hello my feelers + healers!  

Today's conversation with Mattia takes us through their journey with chronic pain, feeling better, and the ways they navigate their inner mindbody conversation as someone with AuDHD + PDA. We touch upon themes of neurodivergence, gender transition, resourcing inner + external safety. We chat about using hypnotic techniques to decrease a sense of threat/unsafety that may accompany disorders like ehlers-danlos syndrome and POTS.  

Mattia Maurée is a composer, writer, and host of the AuDHD Flourishing podcast. They help other neurodivergent folks who want to build a sustainable life but struggle with the day-to-day. They have a true obsession with arctic puffins.  

Links:

Main (starter podcast page): https://www.audhdflourishing.com/hello

Like Your Brain (peer support community): https://www.patreon.com/mattia  - so good! I'm in here and love it.

Love Your Brain (course): https://www.audhdflourishing.com/challenge-page/joinlyb

 

Related recovery stories that might be of interest. Most are not my clients but they are working with the mindbody healing techniques, theories and resources that I speak about on this podcast:

S2E29 Petra's Pain Recovery Dream Life - she has EDS and recovered from chronic pain.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e29-petras-pain-recovery-dream-life/id1595415545?i=1000661834736

S3 Ep33: The Neuroscience of Chronic Pain: POTS, Interstitial Cystitis, Fibro, CFS and more with Gigi
https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2/episodes/2148744168

First person experience using these techniques to recover from POTS and Long Covid.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LongHaulersRecovery/comments/18c8e50/100_recovered_potshi/

Ep 41 Intuitive Healing From Chronic Fatigue, POTS, Lyme Disease, Long COVID and More with Rebecca Tolin
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-41-intuitive-healing-from-chronic-fatigue-pots-lyme/id1679033028?i=1000664796548

Morgan's TMS Success Story - Long COVID, POTS, Dizziness, Digestion, Nausea, and Food Sensitivities
https://youtu.be/IUavpJfgs50?si=Nzk26wt98r-4yTN6

S3 Ep82: Lifelong IBS, Depression, and Adult ADHD with Alice (at the end she speaks about how ADHD is connected with life long masking + stress)
https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2/episodes/2148744120

How I cured my Mast Cell Activation syndrome (MCAS) with Helmut 
https://youtu.be/SrG6P5N439g?si=g4Iz8ELFaCTtMQcz

Vanessa shares her shocking recovery from Pots, meniere's disease, pppd, Gastroparesis, cfs, + with Helmut
https://youtu.be/vduQns3cR3k?si=ZXqq_jghIW9j7INX

And here's a scientific article that talks about the psychiatric + nervous system symtoms that are connected with EDS. In our conversation Mattia touches upon the interoception and felt sense of danger that is associate with EDS in our conversation. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365276/?

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This episode I talk about a mindbody healing tool The Magnet Approach and an activity called The Drop Through. Again the goal is to help your brain and nervous system address your threat physiology detection system and working with your brain in creating change on purpose. Gentle neuroplasticity encourage us that how we attend is a part of the neuro-somatic rewiring process. Also I enjoyed the F out of a cold cold river. 

Here's some interesting articles about cold and how it's used to explore pain.

Temperature and the cold pressor test
Laura A Mitchell *, Raymond A.R MacDonald *, Eric E Brodie *
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1526590004007461

Molecular mechanisms of cold pain
Donald Iain MacDonald,⁎,1 John N. Wood, and Edward C. Emery
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025288/

Oh look Sleep Affects Pain 
Total Sleep Deprivation and Pain Perception during Cold Noxious Stimuli in Humans
Robert A. Larson, MS and Jason R. Carter, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111796/


 

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This episode my client Sophie leads you on her journey out of 20 years of chronic pain. It was her idea to name this podcast Glorious Chaotic Mess. And that speaks to how healing perfectionism can lead to full body healing and a change in relationship with the messages from the body and her mindbody connection. She shares how our work together not only made a substantial difference with her pain but in her life as a whole. 
 

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Hi everyone, it's episode #11 and I'm working with a new recording program that makes a transcript. Yay for new technology!!!

Always learning something new around here.
Always celebrating learning and moving myself to the place of doing my podcast is fun and easy!

So today's podcast is a sweet and fun conversation over messenger with my friend Eva, who is someone I know from Kara Lowentheil's feminist coaching community The Clutch.

I can't say enough about how this practice of Thought Work and the tools of The Life Coach School have changed my life. And The Clutch is a fantastic container with which to explore and practice these tools. (Not getting paid for this pitch LOL).

If you haven't heard Kara's podcast Unf*ck Your Brain before, I highly recommend listening and putting it in your rotation. It's available where all podcasts are found.

You can also work with me!
I have my 8 week pain recovery program in which I blend in these concepts and tool for self inquiry with pain recovery/neurocircuit retraining. http://debmalkin.com/8-week-pain-recovery-program/

And in the next few months I will be offering longer whole life support coaching packages that are a synthesis of all the applied tools for emotional and physical wellness for life beyond pain, to create a life you're excited to embody. Whether it's work, dating, movement, family how your train your brain (intentionally or not) is the main creator of our experience.

I teach you all the magic that self-friendship and curiosity offers and why attention is your secret untapped superpower. Coming soon. But if you read these notes you're getting the first heads up before anyone. :)

And as always you're invited to chat with me and learn more about how you can learn about pain and how to change your embodied experience of physical and emotional pain and overwhelm by training your mind. -- Book a curiosity call with me and let's chat.

https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
http://debmalkin.com/

If you want to get a free 6 week trial to The Curable App click this link and sign up. My work and the app blend well together or try this out on your own first. Remember we are finding those moments of no pain to add deposits into our belief bank.
http://curable.com/connect-qr/6023928186667008

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

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Here's a practice for you if you feel pain when getting up in the morning or when you are getting up from a chair or a couch after sitting for a long time.

There are 3 parts to this:
Visualization
Thought Dump
Relaxed Replacement Thought Repetition

Try this pain brain reprogramming practice.
Let me know how it goes!

What shifts are you noticing?

Here's a link to Dan's Crushing Doubt interview with Hasanna Fletcher - https://youtu.be/ku5M8nG5qYw

You can find links to Dan's podcast and entire world of TMS themed content, more than you can ever consume if you sign up for my email list on debmalkin.com

And as always you're invited to chat with me and learn more about how you can learn about pain and how to change your embodied experience of physical and emotional pain and overwhelm by training your mind.

http://debmalkin.com/
http://debmalkin.com/8-week-pain-recovery-program/

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/

Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com

(first off, I totally apologize for all the extra noise in the beginning of the podcast, apparently I was shuffling things around and wasn't away how freaking loud that was going to be. I know now, and will adjust for next time)

Fear

Maybe even reading that word your body gave you a reaction....

In this podcast I discuss the embodiment of fear & avoidance and how to the messy path forward changes your embodied experience which changes your brain and your pain!

I discuss the idea of The Window of Tolerance - here's a great post that explains the concept. https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/blogs/understanding-and-working-with-the-window-of-tolerance

If you want I'm sure there's mountains of writing you can read and fall into the research hole and leave your body behind.

But alas. It'll be there when you pick your head up again. :) Ask me how I know.

So I hope you enjoy listening to me discussing my process around moving through fear to flow and how I change my experience of showing up for the work I want to create for myself and my clients through teaching and learning of the new science around pain.

And as always you're invited to chat with me and learn more about how you can learn about pain and how to change your embodied experience of physical and emotional pain and overwhelm by training your mind.

http://debmalkin.com/
http://debmalkin.com/8-week-pain-recovery-program/

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/

Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com

Using a fun and interesting experiment we can play with the volume and intensity of physical sensations thereby revealing their neural plastic nature.

I discuss one part of a process from Dr. Schubiner called pressure testing in which we test and then retrain the brain to experience an innocuous sensation in a new way. Please when doing anything take care of yourself, as it can be a little trippy to feel the sensations you experience in your body shift around and change when you weren't expecting it.

In it I talk about a video that I took about some dancing I did in front of a mirror which I'll be posting on my Instagram - @movewithdeb

Sorry this is 2 days late. I'll be talking about why it was late in the next episode. Everyday is an interesting day in exploring the relationship between thoughts, feelings, & sensations around here.

It feels really great to share this with you. I hope that any or all of it is helpful in any way.

And as always you're invited to chat with me and learn more about how you can learn about pain and how to change your embodied experience of physical and emotional pain and overwhelm by training your mind.

http://debmalkin.com/
http://debmalkin.com/8-week-pain-recovery-program/

I've had the privilege of studying with Dr. Schubiner and watching his profound and effective work. You can learn more about him here. He is seeing patients in the state of Michigan and also I believe he is training other Doctors to treat persistent pain in this same fashion. https://www.unlearnyourpain.com/

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

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Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com

Listen up! In this episode I share why this collective experiment with managing the symptoms of the vaccine are the same exact tools I teach around changing the experience of pain.

Be your own scientist in this great mind/body laboratory!

I share some client stories about their vaccine prep and navigating unpleasant sensations, including #barfclub and other incidents with nausea!

And as always you're invited to chat with me and learn more about how you can learn about pain and how to change your embodied experience of physical and emotional pain and overwhelm by training your mind.

http://debmalkin.com/
http://debmalkin.com/8-week-pain-recovery-program/

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/

Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com

This week I share some concepts that I blend into my pain recovery program which I call cognitive-somatic mapping. I discussed the experience of The Felt Sense in last week's episode.

Cognitive Fusion is a concept from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that helps people see that their thoughts are just sentences in their mind.

Hey! That's the same concept I work with in regards to using "the model" a life coaching tool I learned from Kara Lowentheil from Unf*ck Your Brain and the main life coaching methods from The Life Coach School. BTW, I'm starting my certification there next month! Cannot wait! Totally terrified! Fuck yeah feelings!

Here's the links to these three resources:
https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/what-is-cognitive-fusion/

http://eightfoldcounseling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Cognitive-Fusion-Explained.pdf

http://unfuckyourbrain.com/

And my website - debmalkin.com
To book a curiosity call - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/

Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com

In this episode I discuss the concept of The Felt Sense.

I share the work of Dr. Gedlin, the founder of Focusing and namer of the idea of "the felt sense".

I read from this article - https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-issues-are-in-our-tissues-focusing-as-a-somatic-approach-to-therapy#1

You don't need to understand the concept of a felt sense to become aware of them. I share two personal stories of my own felt sense of disbelief from my life.

Here's another interesting article that might tickle your imagination.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eccTPEonRe4BAvNpD/the-felt-sense-what-why-and-how

Thank you always for listening and if you would like to learn more about my 8 week pain recovery program, please sign up for a curiosity call - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Book a free half hour curiosity call with me - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pain.coach.deb/

Website - https://www.thecuriositycure.com