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The Pain PodcastAuthor: lepubscientifique
Every episode of The Pain Podcast features interviews with world-leading pain experts, delivering practical solutions for your toughest clinical challenges. Youll get cutting-edge insights, evidence-based strategies, and actionable advice to revolutionise your approach to pain treatment and transform patient outcomes. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 71: Pain & Identity - Practical Ways to Rebuild the Self
Episode 72
Tuesday, 18 November, 2025
Pain can steal roles, confidence, and connection. Tim and Bart explore how to spot identity loss and how to guide patients toward a values-led, reconstructed sense of self using language, movement, small wins, and co-created experiments. Why identity matters: chronic pain often causes biographical disruption—a break in the story of “who I am.” Neuro/psycho frame: predictive processing and the “model of me”—how ongoing threat can dominate self-inference. Clinician toolkit: Narrative reframing (precision over catastrophising). Values clarification (ACT-informed prompts that patients can actually answer). Small wins & the Three Gifts practice to re-evidence competence and joy. Co-creation & teams to expand the landscape of affordances. Vignettes: CRPS-style limb disownership language; makeup/hair example as “new me” exploration. Micro-experiments: safe, graded role re-entries across movement, connection, work, and creativity. Resources Mentioned: Le Pub Scientifique Free Membership (includes Sleep Clinical Action Plan). Prior conversations with Lance McCracken, Laura Rathbone, Bronnie Lennox Thompson (in the Le Pub library). Connect & Subscribe: Le Pub Scientifique—free membership for clinicians & people living with pain. Share the episode if it helped you or your patients. #chronicpain #identity #ACT #physiotherapy #values #predictiveprocessing #CPPS #CRPS #narrativereframing #rehab
