The Curiosity Cure - MindBody Wellness

Deb Malkin
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The Curiosity Cure - MindBody Wellness

Deb Malkin, certified life coach, bodyworker, hypnotist and Pain Recovery Coach shares tips for rewiring persistent pain and emotional overwhelm. After experiencing their own overnight transformation of her chronic knee pain while 50, fat and with an x-ray showing degenerative osteoarthritis, she discovered pain wasn't only what her bodywork education or doctors were teaching. Using tools inspired by the work of Dr. Sarno, physician and author of Healing Back Pain and Mindbody Prescription she has added a blend of mindbody awareness, polyvagal theory, life coaching magic and a lot of health at every size rebelliousness to develop thier own special process that takes into consideration the affects of marginalization and stigma to teach the brain and body how to embody safety and unlearn pain. Deb is a long time bodyworker, movement enthusiast, former plus size clothing store owner and aging fat queer human with an irreverent sense of humor. She believes all bodies are born with inherent worth and value. Trained by Dr. Howard Schubiner, a renowned Mindbody Physician and Charlie Merrill, PT, the Pain Psychology Center and famed Hypnotist Melissa Tiers, Deb has successfully helped clients eliminate or reduce migraine, back pain, knee, foot and fibromyalgia pain and her clients have resumed creating lives full of richly desired physical activities without fear about chronic or persistent pain.

  1. S2E39 The Comfort Scale, Tracking Made Better For You

    13 NOV

    S2E39 The Comfort Scale, Tracking Made Better For You

    Today's short and sweet podcast that's about flipping a pretty standard practice that many people in pain do on their own and/or are directed by their healthcare providers to do, Tracking Symptoms, to one that's one that will develop increased health + wellbeing. There's research that shows that tracking symptoms has a dark side, increasing distress, anxiety and symptoms. And from my expereince, tracking can hamper healing and brain rewiring. In the episode notes I'll link to articles and studies as well as the image of The Comfort Scale. But I want to encourage you sink into your creativity and develop a way of tracking comfort that feels best to you. As with anything in mindbody practices, letting yourself be in process and explore with curiosity.

    18 min
  2. S2E38 Cultivating Congruency For Self Connection

    2 NOV

    S2E38 Cultivating Congruency For Self Connection

    Today's podcast is a short response to what I've been noticing in myself or my clients when we're having a first response of reactivity, fear or self rejection. This rewiring process of cultivating a sense of emotional congruency is about healing the threatening gap of self rejection, judgment and exiling. When we commit to being a safe landing place for our own emotions we can expand our sense of internal and external safety and lower the threat response in our body that keeps our muscles tight, our pain alarms ringing and teaches our brain that emotions and sensations are dangerous and need to be avoided.

    31 min
  3. S2E37 Knee Pain on the Good Knee Sourcing Emotional Safety

    16 OCT

    S2E37 Knee Pain on the Good Knee Sourcing Emotional Safety

    Buckle in Feelers + Healers. This is a long and windy episode. It starts with the most recent experience of Hurricane Milton and goes back in time to an acute knee pain experience and the emotional stressors I was facing around that time which may have contributed to my flare. Having recovered from that experience, I wanted to talk through my mindset, emotional processing and mindbody approach that I took to reduce my pain and regain function. As always, with any new and acute pain, please speak to your doctor, and make sure that there's no injury or infection that needs medical care. My choices and decisions around my body are my own and not intended to be diagnostic for anyone else.

    1h 4m
  4. S2E36 Moving Towards The SAID Principle

    26 SEPT

    S2E36 Moving Towards The SAID Principle

    I’m uploading today’s from the plane as I’m heading to the PPDA Psychophysiologic Disorders Association Conference in Boulder. My hopes with this podcast is to inform and carry on the tradition of mindbody pioneers like Dr. Sarno who said that information and understanding are the treatment. And it’s essential to not just talk about ideas but to give you things to practice rooted in a mindbody framework. So today’s short practice that you can do anywhere at any time, is to help you lean in to movement with a sense of safety, curiosity and empowerment with a way of soothing and tending to your nervous system. Listen once. Try it. Listen again. Try it again even more deeply with more understanding and listen again and again until your brain and body start to approach moving with this orientation. Book a call with me if you want to go deeper into this work individually with me. I’d love to connect.

    29 min
  5. S2E35 Your Body Loves You, Body Talk with Alora

    10 SEPT

    S2E35 Your Body Loves You, Body Talk with Alora

    In this episode my colleague Alora Kubanek talks about the evolution of her work from dance, to pilates to a mindbody movement centered body dialogue approach. Alora is the founder of ‘Befriend Your Body’ a body-positive online somatic coaching business. Her signature Body Dialogue sessions are designed to help improve the communication between the brain and body. Alora is a trauma-informed movement specialist who understands what its like to live with persistent and invisible conditions. She offers 1-1 support, guest teaching, and also collaborates with life coaches and thought leaders who want develop more embodied experiences. I think a lot of movement professionals will resonate with this conversation. Please enjoy!

    46 min
  6. S2E34 Neurodivergence + the Inner Conversation

    28 AUG

    S2E34 Neurodivergence + the Inner Conversation

    Hello my feelers + healers! Today's conversation with Mattia takes us through their journey with chronic pain, feeling better, and the ways they navigate their inner mindbody conversation as someone with AuDHD + PDA. We touch upon themes of neurodivergence, gender transition, resourcing inner + external safety. We chat about using hypnotic techniques to decrease a sense of threat/unsafety that may accompany disorders like ehlers-danlos syndrome and POTS. Mattia Maurée is a composer, writer, and host of the AuDHD Flourishing podcast. They help other neurodivergent folks who want to build a sustainable life but struggle with the day-to-day. They have a true obsession with arctic puffins. Content note - there is brief mention (without details) of abuse, assault + suicidality. Please take good care of yourself listening to this episode and trust your pace. In the episode notes, I added recovery stories in the mind body medicine sphere that show people recovering from POTS, from mast cell activation, from the pain with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (unclear if they identify as neurodivergent). There's so much that we don't know about the mind body connection. So what I would like to do, as I always do, is I never want to be a limiting factor in how well anybody can feel, and what their individual journey can look like. So, when I share these stories, I really want people to take what resonates for them, what works for them, and what helps make those neural connections between their experience and the interviewee's experience and help build a bridge for their own mind body experience and inner conversation.

    1h 2m
  7. S2E33 The Magnet Approach

    19 AUG

    S2E33 The Magnet Approach

    This episode I talk about a mindbody healing tool I made up called The Magnet Approach and an activity called The Drop Through. Again the goal is to help your brain and nervous system address your threat physiology detection system and working with your brain in creating change on purpose. Gentle neuroplasticity encourage us that how we attend is a part of the neuro-somatic rewiring process. Also I enjoyed the F out of a cold cold river.

    18 min
  8. S2E32 Permission To Be Human With Anna

    3 AUG

    S2E32 Permission To Be Human With Anna

    This episode is a peek into what two mindbody practitioners talk about. Hear bits of our own process of this work helping us find and revel in our humanness. Anna Holtzman is a colleague, friend and leader in mindbody pain recovery. She is a licensed psychotherapist and mind-body coach who helps people find relief from chronic pain and other symptoms of a stressed-out nervous system. She came to this work through her own recovery from 10 years of migraine. In a prior career, Anna worked in reality TV as a video editor and she continues to use her love of storytelling through her blog and podcast, both titled From Chronic Pain to Passion. She lives in New York City with her partner, stepdaughter, and three orange cats. I don't think I could write better than Anna to describe this episode, here's what she said about our conversation: Deb and I are also part of a cohort of mind-body coaches who get together about twice a month and let it all hang out together, which has been so instrumental for my growth. And as we’ll talk about, it’s not always easy letting yourself be vulnerable, even in the most supportive of spaces. But what I find over and over again is that it’s so worth it, because the healing and growth that comes from allowing ourselves to connect with one another through our vulnerability and honesty is really the only gateway to joy in life, as far as I can tell. So, here’s me and Deb getting real with each other — and with you — about what it’s like to be a beautifully messy human being who helps other beautifully messy human beings. And I hope this conversation serves as a permission slip to let your own beautiful messiness shine through.

    1h 18m
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Deb Malkin, certified life coach, bodyworker, hypnotist and Pain Recovery Coach shares tips for rewiring persistent pain and emotional overwhelm. After experiencing their own overnight transformation of her chronic knee pain while 50, fat and with an x-ray showing degenerative osteoarthritis, she discovered pain wasn't only what her bodywork education or doctors were teaching. Using tools inspired by the work of Dr. Sarno, physician and author of Healing Back Pain and Mindbody Prescription she has added a blend of mindbody awareness, polyvagal theory, life coaching magic and a lot of health at every size rebelliousness to develop thier own special process that takes into consideration the affects of marginalization and stigma to teach the brain and body how to embody safety and unlearn pain. Deb is a long time bodyworker, movement enthusiast, former plus size clothing store owner and aging fat queer human with an irreverent sense of humor. She believes all bodies are born with inherent worth and value. Trained by Dr. Howard Schubiner, a renowned Mindbody Physician and Charlie Merrill, PT, the Pain Psychology Center and famed Hypnotist Melissa Tiers, Deb has successfully helped clients eliminate or reduce migraine, back pain, knee, foot and fibromyalgia pain and her clients have resumed creating lives full of richly desired physical activities without fear about chronic or persistent pain.

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