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Podcast: Pain Science Podcast
Episode: Episode 226| Dropping An Anchor: A Simple And Powerful Technique For Pain Catastrophizing, Mindfulness, And Cognitive Defusion
Description: In this episode, we're going to do something different. Instead of me interviewing someone, I'm going to share a simple yet powerful technique that will help you whether you're someone living with pain or a practitioner who treats people. This exercise is called Dropping an Anchor. It's typically one of the very first techniques that I teach patients who suffer from pain or pain catastrophizing, having problems with difficult emotions, emotion dysregulation, anxiety or any challenge that's coming up in the therapy room. Before we begin, we probably should revisit the term pain catastrophizing and review and identify what...