Beautiful Voyager
Beautiful Voyager is a podcast for overthinkers, people pleasers, perfectionists, and anyone interested in the connection between the mind, body, and nervous system.
Hosted by Meredith Arthur, author of Get Out of My Head and the forthcoming Too Smart to Heal, these conversations explore mindbody science, neuroplastic symptoms, chronic stress, healing, creativity, technology, and what it means to live with a highly analytical mind in a complex world.
Featuring thoughtful guests from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, technology, and the arts. Learn more at bevoya.com.
Beautiful Voyager
39 - Sean Hershey, Mind-Body Medicine for Chronic Pain
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Sean Hershey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York who specializes in using mind-body work to help his clients end their chronic pain and, in his words, "truly learn to be themselves." He's the host of a new podcast called The Mind-Body Medicine for Chronic Pain, and in that podcast he works to, piece by piece, share the principles and practices of mindbody healing.
I love Sean's honest and humble approach (he's a Midwesterner, just like me, who grew up in an Irish Catholic community in St. Paul, Minnesota) and think you will too. In this conversation Sean and I talk about the paradox of mindbody healing -- as we embrace our true selves and our body pain goes down, our feelings of separation from others can increase. This of course does not mean we shouldn't do it -- it's just that this angle is not covered as frequently as the success stories are.
Sean and I also share parts of our journey and talk hip pain and what we've learned about it. We talk about what being a therapist pre-mindbody vs post-mindbody looks like for him. And of course we discuss our shared understanding of the TMS (tension myoneural syndrome) personality.
Website: https://www.mindbodymedicineforchronicpain.com/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2w673beYfZXmfpznyvaYQg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_gay_therapist/