The Pain Podcast

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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.
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Episode 69: Catastrophising Isn’t a Character Flaw
Episode 70
Tuesday, 16 September, 2025

In this episode, Bart and Tim explore one of the most misunderstood terms in pain care: catastrophising. More than just negative thinking, this cognitive-emotional process is deeply rooted in attentional networks, threat prediction, and prior experiences. We cover: The neuroscience of why catastrophic thinking increases pain The trap of premature reassurance or cognitive correction How to work with rumination, not against it Clinical tools that validate, reframe, and gently open space for possibility With references to predictive processing, the Fear-Avoidance Model, and years of lived experience, this is a compassionate, grounded take for clinicians wanting to do better by their patients. 🎧 Bonus: Tim shares a personal story of following Michael Sullivan on stage—and what that taught him about catastrophising on both sides of the clinic! 👉 Listen now and reflect on: What’s one change you could make to your language this week?