Chronic Persistence: Recent Episodes
Noah Holtgraves
This show is about living with chronic pain. Journalist Noah Holtgraves hosts the interview series exploring his chronic pain journey with mindfulness experts, pain researchers, primary care physicians and fellow chronic pain sufferers. To learn more about chronic pain and the roads that exist to help manage your pain, visit us at chronicpersistence.com
Chronic pain experts are not physicians. Chronic pain is a broad category that includes many conditions and causes. The people who live day to day with chronic pain are the fundamental authorities on their specific situation. Adjunct Lecturer, mentor and Visiting Scholar of Stanford University, Dr. David Sobel, explains why chronic pain sufferers must become experts in the conditions they face and how to use self-management techniques to improve both physical and emotional experiences around chronic pain. We talk with Co-Author Dr. Sobel about his second edition release of, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain: Getting Your Life Back, part of a comprehensive international chronic condition management program called The Self-Management Resource Center. To learn more about chronic pain and the roads that exist to help manage your pain, visit us at chronicpersistence.com.
New research shows that the pervasiveness of chronic pain is rising for U.S. adults of all demographics. The research title ‘Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002–2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates’ was published in the population research journal ‘Demography.’ Medical Sociologist, Demographer and Principal Investigator for the study, Dr. Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, talks about the group’s findings and why pain is becoming more prevalent in the U.S, why chronic pain is not more widely discussed and whether Americans are actually experiencing more pain or just reporting it more. To learn more about chronic pain and the roads that exist to help manage your pain, visit us at chronicpersistence.com.
Mindfulness and meditation can be a buffer against the challenges of a chronic pain condition. Meditation can also improve your overall quality of life regardless of chronic pain. Mindfulness and Insight Meditation Teacher, Dr. Christiane Wolf, explains why practicing mindfulness can relieve chronic pain symptoms for our first guest on the entire show. We talk with Dr. Wolf about her new guidebook, 'Outsmart Your Pain: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind' and how everyone can benefit from mindfulness and self-compassion. To learn more about chronic pain and the roads that exist to help manage your pain, visit us at chronicpersistence.com.
Show host Noah Holtgraves introduces the series with his own chronic pain story. He struggled with chronic neck pain for years without seeking help — and it nearly destroyed his career. Noah opens up about self-medicating and the benefits and downsides of self-navigating health issues. He talks about the need for sufferers to take the wheel in their pain recovery and why he is creating a network to help other sufferers navigate their journeys. To learn more about chronic pain and the roads that exist to help manage your pain, visit us at chronicpersistence.com.