From Chronic Pain to Full Recovery: How Nervana Is Rewriting the Rules of Healing with Nora Rodden – Episode 435

About this episode

Nora Rodden discusses her journey from chronic pain to recovery through neuroscience and the Nervana app.

Your nervous system learned danger. It can learn safety too. In this episode, Peter Fenger sits down with Nora Rodden, CEO and co-founder of Nervana, a science-based mobile app helping people regulate their nervous systems and reclaim their lives from chronic pain. After a life-altering car accident left her suffering from chronic pain, GI issues, and insomnia for over five years, Nora didn't find relief through injections, surgery, or nerve ablation. She found it through neuroscience. A clinical trial at Harvard Business School introduced her to the power of mind-body therapy, and effectively rewired her brain's alarm system. Now, drawing on her background in biotech and her training as a certified yoga teacher, she's on a mission to bring these evidence-based neuroplasticity tools out of the research lab and into the hands of millions. In this conversation, Nora takes us inside her recovery, the science behind chronic pain, and how Nervana is helping users move from a chronic state of fight-or-flight back to one of lasting internal safety, one small, powerful experiment at a time. For more information about Nervana, please visit: https://www.trynervana.com To download Nervana…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Fenger

Guest: Nora Rodden

Topics covered

• chronic pain
• neuroscience
• mind-body therapy
• neuroplasticity
• healing
• mental health

Keywords

• chronic pain
• neuroscience
• Nervana
• mind-body therapy
• neuroplasticity
• healing
• mental health

Sponsors

Nervana

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nervana, Harvard Business School, Apple App store

Products: Nervana

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