Pain relief matters — but is it the same as recovery?
In this solo episode of Beyond The Pain, I take you behind the scenes of my new book, Beyond The Pain: A Whole-Person Approach to Understanding Pain and Participating in Recovery.
After nearly three decades of working with people in persistent pain, I share why so many people experience temporary relief, only for their pain to return days, weeks, or months later. I explore why pain is often misunderstood when it is reduced to a body part, scan finding, diagnosis, posture issue, or single treatment approach.
Through the story of Amelia, a client with recurring neck and shoulder pain, cervical spinal stenosis, fatigue, digestive issues, bloating and headaches, Leigh explains how structural, metabolic, lifestyle, emotional and nervous system factors can all interact to influence pain and recovery.
This episode is not about blaming people for their pain. It is about helping people understand that they may have more influence over their recovery than they have been led to believe.
In this episode, I discuss:
- Why pain relief is not always the same as recovery
- Why persistent pain often returns after treatment
- How a diagnosis can be useful — but also limiting
- Why pain should not always be viewed as a simple damage signal
- How digestion, stress, inflammation, fatigue and movement patterns can all influence pain
- Why recovery often requires a whole-person framework
- The difference between personal responsibility and blame
- Why Beyond The Pain was written
You can find Beyond The Pain on all major podcast platforms in video & audio versions including Apple, Spotify and YouTube.
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