We’re joined by global pain expert and pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness to discuss how pain works and how we can alleviate the root causes of pain instead of seeking short-term relief from addictive painkillers.Dr. Rachel Zoffness / WebsiteDr. Rachel Zoffness (@therealdoczoff) / InstagramDr. Rachel Zoffness (@DrZoffness) / TwitterRachel Zoffness PhD - Pain psychologist / LinkedIn The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your LifeIf you are in a crisis or think you have an emergency, call your doctor or 911. If you're considering suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK to speak with a skilled trained counselor.RADICALLY GENUINE PODCASTRadically Genuine Podcast Website Twitter: Roger K. McFillin, Psy.D., ABPPInstagram @radgenpodTikTok @radgenpodRadGenPodcast@gmail.comADDITIONAL RESOURCES4:30 Gate Control Theory of Pain - Physiopedia7:00 What Is a Pain Psychologist? | Psychology Today9:00 The Science of Pain10:20 Think Pain Is Purely Medical? Think Again. | Psychology Today11:00 Congenital insensitivity to pain: MedlinePlus Genetics11:50 Phantom Limb Pain - Physiopedia12:30 The Emotional Brain as a Predictor and Amplifier of Chronic Pain - PMC14:00 Tackling the Grand Challenge of chronic pain needs widespread reform: Prof John Loeser16:30 Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop17:15 Radically Genuine Podcast | 57. Beliefs, mindsets and the placebo effect22:30 How to explain central sensitization to patients with ‘unexplained’ chronic musculoskeletal pain: Practice guidelines - ScienceDirect25:00 Pain Tolerance and Sensitivity in Men, Women, Redheads, and More29:00 Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine - The Lancet Rheumatology31:00 A ‘Volume Control’ for Pain | Harvard Medical School38:00 How to Calm an Anxious Stomach: The Brain-Gut Connection | Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA39:30 The Brain-Gut Connection | Johns Hopkins Medicine40:30 Microbes Help Produce Serotonin in Gut44:00 Pain Recipe - @therealdoczoff49:30 Increased Pain Sensitivity in Accident-related Chronic Pain... : The Clinical Journal of Pain51:00 Hypervigilance in PTSD and Other Disorders53:30 The mind's mirror