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Nicole Sachs discusses how the nervous system can influence chronic pain and the importance of addressing buried emotions for healing.

Mind Your Body author Nicole Sachs explains how pain is your brain's alarm, and why facing buried feelings can reverse symptoms once thought permanent. Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1337 What We Discuss with Nicole Sachs: Pain is the brain's protective alarm, not a malfunction. The brain can both create and remove pain. It generates real symptoms to force you to slow down and stop returning to environments it has flagged as unsafe. Symptoms are real, but the source may be misdiagnosed. Chronic pain, IBS, migraines, fatigue, and long COVID aren't imaginary, but the nervous system — not the body part being treated — is often where the real trouble originates. A nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight produces physical illness. When the brain perceives constant "predators" — a hostile boss, money stress, unresolved trauma — it stays in survival mode, driving inflammation, muscle spasm, and nerve pain. Repressed emotion is read by the body as a threat. When difficult feelings go unseen and unfelt, the nervous system treats them as a predator — surfacing as flares, migraines, or chronic conditions long after the original event. You have far more…

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Harbinger

Guest: Nicole Sachs

Topics covered

• nervous system
• chronic pain
• emotional health
• neuroscience
• healing
• mental health

Keywords

• chronic pain
• nervous system
• emotions
• healing
• neuroscience
• IBS
• migraines
• long COVID

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: jordanharbinger.com

Books & works: Mind Your Body

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