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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: What’s Behind the Pain?
Description: In this podcast, we discuss the sources of chronic pain in families with addiction.We learn that:Chronic pain is more likely to occur in families with an addiction problem in the home.That is because of the extra burden of stressors imposed by dysfunctions and (according to Dr John Sarno) by suppressed rage.Science has shown that chronic pain is as much a brain disorder as it is a physical problem.Learning new neural pathways is a science-based way of looking at what recovery tries to do – unlearning unhealthy ways of thinking and replacing them wi...