Pain is a complex, unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. It’s a highly personal and subjective experience, and how people perceive and respond to pain can vary significantly. Pain serves as a vital warning system, as a protective mechanism, alerting us to potential harm and prompting actions to prevent or limit damage. Pain is not just a simple signal of tissue damage. It involves the brain processing sensory information and integrating it with emotional, cognitive, and social factors. Our Experts in this area of the site explore why we all have pain.
Pain is also a word used to help bring meaning to subjects we all deal with and are addressed in this area of the site, also. Transforming pain to a purpose is meaningful. Turning pain into powerful stories, pain can lead to healing and the pain of perfection are several different topics that are experts address for all of us to contemplate.
Pain Specialists & Contributors
Lyndsay Soprano Lyndsay Soprano, Host of Giving Pain Purpose and Founder of The Pain Hub
If you've ever wondered how a dying loved one's request could become a calling, episode 440 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Ceramic artist Rae Delai shares how a promise to her dying aunt led her to leave nursing and open White Lily Urns, crafting memorial pieces — including a teapot urn for a …
If you've ever wondered how a dying loved one's request could become a calling, episode 440 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Ceramic artist Rae Delai shares how a promise to her dying aunt led her t…
If you've ever wondered how a dying loved one's request could become a calling, episode 440 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Ceramic artist Rae Delai shares how a promise to her dying aunt led her to leave nursing and open White Lily Urns, crafting memorial pieces — including a teapot urn for a young woman lost to anorexia and a reef urn that becomes part of the ocean.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:55) Rae's path from 30 years in nursing to becoming a full-time ceramic artist(01:27) How her dying aunt's request for an urn led to White Lily Urns(08:30) Why Australian culture — and ev…
Maybe me and you have just been asking ourselves the wrong question all along... We thought we were just being realistic, but in actuality we have been secretly destroying our chances at ever living out the life we were meant to have!In Week 5 of the Summer Shift Series, Kevin explores how a simple …
Maybe me and you have just been asking ourselves the wrong question all along... We thought we were just being realistic, but in actuality we have been secretly destroying our chances at ever living o…
Maybe me and you have just been asking ourselves the wrong question all along... We thought we were just being realistic, but in actuality we have been secretly destroying our chances at ever living out the life we were meant to have!In Week 5 of the Summer Shift Series, Kevin explores how a simple mindset shift can help you stop preparing for the worst and start creating space for hope, growth, and possibility.Are Your "What If" Questions Helping You or Hurting You?Most of us don't realize it, but the questions we ask ourselves every day shape the future we're preparing for.What if it doesn't…
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“I didn’t really know what love was. I didn’t know how to give it in the right way. I didn’t know how to accept it.”
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What happens when the life you survived becomes the story that helps someone else breathe again?
In this deeply moving episode of Doing Business with a Servant’s Heart, Steve Ramona welcomes Marci Hopkins, a woman whose journey from childhood trauma, addiction, and emotional chaos became a path toward sob…
Life’s purpose is that inner compass that gives direction and meaning to everything we do. It’s the why behind our choices, the fuel behind our passion, and the anchor that keeps us grounded in times of chaos. It’s not necessarily about your job title, your role in the family, or your bank bal…
Life’s purpose is that inner compass that gives direction and meaning to everything we do. It’s the why behind our choices, the fuel behind our passion, and the anchor that keeps us grounded in ti…
Life’s purpose is that inner compass that gives direction and meaning to everything we do. It’s the why behind our choices, the fuel behind our passion, and the anchor that keeps us grounded in times of chaos. It’s not necessarily about your job title, your role in the family, or your bank balance. Rather, it’s the underlying reason you wake up in the morning and feel excited — or at least hopeful — about the day ahead. Think of your life purpose like the North Star. Sailors used it to navigate oceans because it was constant. Your purpose should feel like that — steady, deeply pe…
Is jealousy making you feel out of control — or controlling? Before you try to talk yourself out of it, it's worth understanding what it's actually doing for you.In this solo episode, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Todd Creager takes an honest, compassionate look at jealousy — …
Is jealousy making you feel out of control — or controlling? Before you try to talk yourself out of it, it's worth understanding what it's actually doing for you.In this solo episode, lice…
Is jealousy making you feel out of control — or controlling? Before you try to talk yourself out of it, it's worth understanding what it's actually doing for you.In this solo episode, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Todd Creager takes an honest, compassionate look at jealousy — not as a character flaw or a red flag, but as a protective response rooted in older, unhealed pain. If your partner mentions a coworker and your chest tightens, or a liked photo on social media sends your mind into overdrive, this episode speaks directly to what's happening beneath that reactio…
Have you ever struggled with feelings of rejection, low self-worth, or the need for validation from others? In this inspiring episode of Girlish Gurus, Lorraine Miano and Joy Alford Brand welcome author Lori Michalina Wood to share her powerful healing journey from childhood rejection to emotional a…
Have you ever struggled with feelings of rejection, low self-worth, or the need for validation from others? In this inspiring episode of Girlish Gurus, Lorraine Miano and Joy Alford Brand welcome auth…
Have you ever struggled with feelings of rejection, low self-worth, or the need for validation from others? In this inspiring episode of Girlish Gurus, Lorraine Miano and Joy Alford Brand welcome author Lori Michalina Wood to share her powerful healing journey from childhood rejection to emotional and spiritual wholeness.
Many women carry emotional wounds from childhood into adulthood without realizing how deeply those experiences shape relationships, confidence, and self-worth. Lori opens up about overcoming father wounds, healing childhood pain, and learning to stop seeking validation from o…
190 Comfort Measures in the Hospital: What They Mean and How They Help Host Marie Betcher, a registered nurse and former hospice nurse, explains what "comfort measures" mean when offered during a hospital stay. Comfort measures begin when curative care stops and the focus shifts to relieving discom…
190 Comfort Measures in the Hospital: What They Mean and How They Help Host Marie Betcher, a registered nurse and former hospice nurse, explains what "comfort measures" mean when offered during a hos…
190 Comfort Measures in the Hospital: What They Mean and How They Help Host Marie Betcher, a registered nurse and former hospice nurse, explains what "comfort measures" mean when offered during a hospital stay. Comfort measures begin when curative care stops and the focus shifts to relieving discomfort, pain, and distress for patients nearing end of life through appropriate medications and bedside care. She notes that comfort measures are not a full care program and lack the added support hospice can provide, but they are still valuable, especially when hospice is not offered or available due…
Cancer Caused by His Volunteer Work at a New York Attack: A 9/11 Volunteer's Fight Against Lung Cancer, Trauma, and Finding Hope. Those words summarize a journey that began with selfless service and evolved into a decades-long battle for survival. Twenty-five years after volunteering at Ground Zero …
Cancer Caused by His Volunteer Work at a New York Attack: A 9/11 Volunteer's Fight Against Lung Cancer, Trauma, and Finding Hope. Those words summarize a journey that began with selfless service and e…
Cancer Caused by His Volunteer Work at a New York Attack: A 9/11 Volunteer's Fight Against Lung Cancer, Trauma, and Finding Hope. Those words summarize a journey that began with selfless service and evolved into a decades-long battle for survival. Twenty-five years after volunteering at Ground Zero following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Craig Sotkovsky continues fighting a different enemy, an aggressive form of lung cancer linked to toxic exposure at the World Trade Center. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast social media like their Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Mediu…
As America’s aging population grows, so does a quieter epidemic: loneliness. While medications are often the first response to depression and anxiety in older adults, many experts are asking whether the deeper issue is not simply chemistry — but disconnection.In this episode of The Aging Well Po…
As America’s aging population grows, so does a quieter epidemic: loneliness. While medications are often the first response to depression and anxiety in older adults, many experts are asking whether…
As America’s aging population grows, so does a quieter epidemic: loneliness. While medications are often the first response to depression and anxiety in older adults, many experts are asking whether the deeper issue is not simply chemistry — but disconnection.In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong and Corbin Bruton sit down with Dr. Elisa Gil-Pires, Medical Director at Charles E. Smith Life Communities, to explore the relationship between social connection, mental health, and aging well. Drawing from her experience caring for more than 1,100 older adults, Dr. Gil-Pir…
As we conclude our Migraine Awareness Month podcast series, I find myself reflecting on a question that extends far beyond migraines:
What if healing begins with peace?
Not peace as a destination.
Not peace as something we earn after the pain is gone.
But peace as a practice.
A way of…
As we conclude our Migraine Awareness Month podcast series, I find myself reflecting on a question that extends far beyond migraines:
What if healing begins with peace?
Not peace as a destinatio…
As we conclude our Migraine Awareness Month podcast series, I find myself reflecting on a question that extends far beyond migraines:
What if healing begins with peace?
Not peace as a destination.
Not peace as something we earn after the pain is gone.
But peace as a practice.
A way of being.
A relationship we cultivate with ourselves, even in the midst of challenge.
In our final episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Karen Lee Cohen, known affectionately as the Peace Whisperer. Karen is the founder of the Let’s Be Peace Movement, author of Let’s Be Peace: 20 Uni…
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