Rewriting The Pain Story
NOVEMBER 20TH 2024
EPISODE 69: REWRITING THE PAIN STORY
In this transformative episode, Dr Scott is joined by Nicole Sachs, LCSW, a renowned therapist, author, and expert in mind-body healing. Nicole is the creator of the JournalSpeak method, a groundbreaking practice that helps people uncover and release suppressed emotions that manifest as chronic pain. With over two decades of experience, Nicole has dedicated her career to helping people heal by teaching them to understand the mind-body connection and transform their relationship with pain.
Nicole shares her personal journey with chronic back pain, which began in college and led her down a path of medical consultations, surgeries, and prescriptions. However, it wasn’t until she discovered the work of Dr. John Sarno that she began to understand how emotional repression and nervous system dysregulation were contributing to her pain. Nicole’s own healing experience inspired her to create the JournalSpeak method, and she has since guided thousands of people worldwide in using this powerful tool to find lasting relief.
Throughout the conversation, Scott and Nicole explore how pain is often a signal from the body, protecting us from perceived emotional threats rather than just a physical condition. Nicole offers profound insights on how we can begin to change our relationship with pain by embracing curiosity instead of fear and turning toward the emotions we’ve been suppressing.
She introduces the concept of JournalSpeak as a way to safely release emotional energy, and emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and patience on the healing journey. By addressing the emotional roots of pain, Nicole has helped people reclaim their lives from conditions like fibromyalgia, migraines, back pain, and more.
Topics We Break Down:
How the nervous system creates pain to protect us from perceived emotional threats
The JournalSpeak method: A powerful tool for releasing suppressed emotions and healing pain
The mind-body connection and how emotional stimuli can manifest as physical pain
How pain is often a sign of emotional repression, trauma, or nervous system dysregulation
The importance of validating pain and recognizing its emotional origins
Building self-compassion and patience in the process of healing
Inner child work and its role in uncovering deep emotional wounds
How curiosity and wonder can help shift fear and open new possibilities for healing
Real-life success stories from people who have healed chronic pain using JournalSpeak
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE
Show Notes
Episode Links:
JournalSpeak | Break Awake with Nicole Sachs
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Special Guest
NICOLE SACHS
Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, psychotherapist, retreat leader, and podcaster. She has supported hundreds of thousands, dedicating her work and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and other conditions. She is the author of the book The Meaning of Truth and the online courses Freedom from Chronic Pain and Freedom from an Anxious Life. Her upcoming book, Mind Your Body, will be released by Penguin/Random House in February, 2025.
Under the banner of The Cure for Chronic Pain brand, Nicole has a popular Podcast, YouTube channel, Instagram channel, and newsletter. Alongside her partner Lisa Eisenpresser and their colleague Christina Sarno, Nicole co-created The Sarno x Sachs Solution, a practitioner training that equips clinicians and coaches worldwide of this life-changing work.
Nicole is on faculty at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York where her yearly retreats draw hundreds of people from all over the world to learn with her in community. She is one of a handful of direct disciples of Dr. John Sarno and she has brought teaching, writing, podcasting, and social media together to deliver his pioneering theories to a global, multi-generational, audience. Nicole’s personal success story as well as her transformative work with thousands of people around the world continues to shape and evolve her theories which teach those suffering how to heal themselves completely without medication or surgery.
Nicole runs retreats and workshops, large and small, across the country for both professionals and participants. She has appeared on TV and well-known podcasts as an expert in her field. With Your BreakAwake, she hopes to use her own story and those of her growing global community as evidence that everyone has the power to fully inhabit their lives free of chronic conditions and self-limiting beliefs.
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Your Host
DR. SCOTT LYONS
Dr. Scott Lyons is a licensed holistic psychologist, educator and author of the book Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, with Hachette publishing. Scott is also the host of The Gently Used Human Podcast, a delightfully depthful and often hilarious exploration of what it is to be human, to have lived life, and come out gently used.
As a renowned body-based trauma expert, Doctor of Osteopathy (Spain) and Mind-Body Medicine specialist, Scott helps people to break free from cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. Scott is an innovator in transformative wellness and trauma therapy, teaching over half a million people internationally over the past twenty years how to relieve stress and restore vitality. Scott has worked with many of the country’s top leaders and CEOs as an executive coach and wellness consultant.
Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab—the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies—and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries. Scott is also the founder and progressive designer of Omala, a wellness brand dedicated to creating sustainably sourced tools for transformation.
About the Podcast
THE GENTLY USED HUMAN
Dr. Scott Lyons and his world renowned guests take us into the delightfully depthful and often hilarious exploration of what it is to be human, to have lived life, and come out gently used. From passion to pain, glory to defeat, comedy to drama to tragedy, we’ve all been through it. This show unpacks the psychology and humor needed to keep you thriving on the roller coaster of being human.
