Psychotherapist and host Jessica Fowler interviews sports and health psychologist Dr. Carly Hunt about her book, Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: How to Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection.  In addition to sharing about her history of childhood medical trauma and intermittent pain, Dr. Hunt explores many aspects of chronic pain including how trauma can contribute to nervous system sensitization.  Dr. Hunt emphasizes building a multidisciplinary care team, activity pacing with time-contingent rest, and mindfulness to reduce pain-related worry.

Psychotherapist and host Jessica Fowler interviews Lisa Gray this week about relationships and chronic illness.  We discuss her book:  Thriving in a Relationship When You Have Chronic Illness: Navigate Challenges and Keep Your Relationship Strong Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  We explore how chronic illness changes couple dynamics and how acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help.

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Christina Kantzavelos, LCSW shares about her journal Begin Within - A Daily Healing Journey. Christina shares a bit about her history with chronic illness and being very sick, to being able to advocate and help heal herself. Through her journal she was able to track symptoms that helped with her healing journey but also found healing in journaling itself. Listen as she shares about the journal.