The Mind-Body Couple
Tanner Murtagh and Anne Hampson are therapists who treat neuroplastic pain and mind-body symptoms. They are also married! In his 20s, Tanner overcame chronic pain and a fibromyalgia diagnosis by learning his symptoms were occurring due to learned brain pathways and nervous system dysregulation. Post-healing, Tanner and Anne have dedicated their lives to developing effective treatment and education for neuroplastic pain and symptoms. Listen and learn how to assess your own chronic pain and symptoms, gain tools to retrain the brain and nervous system, and make gradual changes in your life and health!
The Mind-Body Couple podcast is owned by Pain Psychotherapy Canada Inc. This podcast is produced by Alex Klassen, who is one of the wonderful therapists at our agency in Calgary, Alberta. https://www.painpsychotherapy.ca/
Tanner, Anne, and Alex also run the MBody Community, which is an in-depth online course that provides step-by-step guidance for assessing, treating, and resolving mind-body pain and symptoms. https://www.mbodycommunity.com
Also check out Tanner's YouTube channel for more free education and practices: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Fl6WaFHnh4ponuexaMbFQ
And follow us for daily education posts on Instagram: @painpsychotherapy
Disclaimer: The information provided on this podcast is for general informational and educational purposes and is not a substitute for professional advice, psychotherapy, or counselling. If you choose to utilize any of the education, strategies, or techniques in this podcast you are doing so at your own risk.
Episodes
106 episodes
Healing Your Anxiety AND Chronic Pain/Symptoms (With Free Practice)
Anxiety feels chronic for many of us, and it gets even harder when it increases due to chronic pain and symptoms.Tanner sits down with our producer and fellow therapist, Alex Klassen, to zoom in on neuroception: your body’s antenn...
Why Do Women Experience More Chronic Pain & Symptoms?
The rules many women are handed... be agreeable, don’t be too much, handle everything... aren’t just exhausting. They reshape the nervous system’s sense of safety and can wire the body for neuroplastic pain and symptoms.We connect the do...
How to Find The Right Therapist for Chronic Pain & Symptom Recovery
If you're using a mind-body approach to heal your chronic pain/symptoms, the right therapist is a game-changer.Tanner sits down with fellow chronic pain psychotherapist, Paul LePointe, to discuss different therapy approaches and styles. ...
Somatic Tracking for Chronic Pain & Symptoms: Free Guide
Tanner hosts a solo episode, sharing a free somatic tracking practice from the MBody Community digital course.Tanner first explains how chronic pain and symptoms can be neuroplastic (caused by the brain, not the body). He then breaks dow...
Treat the Root Cause: Fatigue & Long Covid feat. Dr. Kennedy
In this episode, we are joined by one of the world's leading expert physicians on neuroplastic pain and symptoms. Dr. Rebecca Kennedy sits down with Tanner, sharing science, personal stories, and practical ideas to get to the root of chronic sy...
Trauma Triggers: What can I do when I freeze?
We answer a listener’s question about the freeze response, teaching a straightforward method to move from freeze to safety. We normalize triggers and provide practical ideas you can use to respond when your nervous system drops in to danger mod...
THE #1 Strategy to Cure Neuroplastic Pain or Symptoms
In this special episode, where we're joined by our producer (and fellow psychotherapist) Alex Klassen.We each showed up - without any previous conversation - ready to share our answer to the question:What is THE #1 Strategy ...
Career Success While Healing Chronic Symptoms
Ambition doesn’t have to cost your health.We start with the core problem: living neck up. Our culture rewards cognition—thinking, fixing, producing—while the body’s signals get ignored until they become symptoms.We dig into how to...
Work Somatically to Heal Trauma
We answer Joni’s question about healing medical trauma after a health scare and show how to restore nervous system regulation using embodiment, exposure, and personal safety signals.We break down therapy room steps and an at-home plan to...
Make 2026 The Year You Heal Chronic Pain and Symptoms
Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.caReady to make 2026 the year you unlearn chronic pain or symptoms? We’re laying out 4 clear steps to heal.We start by reframing chronic symptoms t...
Holiday Survival Guide For Chronic Pain & Illness
Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.caThe holidays can be filled with joy, but for many living with chronic pain or chronic illness, December brings spikes in symptoms, packed calendars, and ...
Can You Combine Physiotherapy with a Neuroplastic Approach? - with Jim Prussack Jr. MPT, MMT
What if the most powerful lever for chronic pain isn’t in your muscles or joints, but in your brain’s pain system? We sit down with Jim Prussack a physiotherapist who left a strictly structural model behind after diving deep into pain science, ...
Why I Stuck With Tanner Through His Chronic Pain Journey
Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.caLove doesn’t disappear when chronic pain shows up, but it can get buried under appointments, bills, and long stretches of silence. We open up ...
Polyvagal Theory for Chronic Pain & Symptoms
We unpack polyvagal theory, starting with neuroception, the body’s below-conscious radar that constantly scans for danger or safety. When that radar gets oversensitive after stress, adversity, or trauma, it misreads harmless cues as threats. Th...
Try this Free 30-Day Program for Chronic Pain and Illness — See What Happens!
PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER BELOW BEFORE BEGINNING THIS PROGRAM.If you live with chronic pain, fatigue, or illness, you’ve probably tried everything — medications, treatments, diets — and nothing seems to work long-term. That’s because f...
Can Repressing Emotions Cause Chronic Pain and Illness?
What if the aches, tension, and fatigue you’ve been fighting are your emotions asking to be felt? We unpack the research on emotional suppression and show how a nervous system stuck in “danger” can translate stress into very real pain/illness—w...
Healing Chronic Pain Is Possible — Here’s How I Did It
What if your most stubborn pain isn’t a broken body, but a brilliant brain trying to protect you? We open up about Tanner’s journey from spreading knee, shoulder, and back pain to a full recovery, and how the real turning point came when he ref...
8 Tips & Tricks for Brain Retraining — Rewiring the Brain Out of Chronic Pain & Illness
Your brain can learn safety, and that changes everything about chronic pain and illness. We’re pulling back the curtain on brain retraining—what it is, what it isn’t, and how to use it day to day without turning healing into a pressure-filled p...
Healing Trauma Caused by Chronic Pain and Illness
The body’s alarm system can get stuck on high when chronic pain and persistent symptoms take over, and we give that pattern a name: sensitization trauma. We unpack how symptoms, scary medical opinions, and hope-disappointment cycles teach the n...
Part 2: How to Go from Bed Bound to Fully Moving
Fear quietly writes rules that shrink a life: no hard chairs, no long walks, no lifting, no plans. In this episode, we share a practical roadmap to go from bedbound and fearful to confident and moving, grounded in the science of neuroplastic pa...
Part 1: How to Go from Bed Bound to Fully Moving
Have you found yourself avoiding more and more activities as your pain or symptoms increase? Do you have an ever-growing list of movements, positions, or situations you need to avoid "or else"? You're not alone, and there's a fascinating explan...
The Morning Routine That Can Rewire Your Brain & Heal Chronic Pain
Could your morning routine be secretly sabotaging your chronic pain and illness recovery? In this illuminating episode, we explore how those critical first moments after waking profoundly impact your nervous system's regulation and pain process...
3 Habits that Keep You in Chronic Pain and Symptoms
Ever wondered why, despite trying countless treatments, your chronic pain and illness persists? The answer might be hiding in your daily habits. Tanner and Anne reveal how our lifestyle patterns can keep us trapped in cycles of pain and symptom...
Take Manual Control of Your Nervous System
Have you ever felt stuck in anxiety, shutdown, or constant stress despite your best efforts to feel better? Your nervous system may need manual intervention—and waiting for automatic regulation might not be enough.In this deeply insight...
Somatic Therapy Explained: Feel Away Your Symptoms
Ever wondered why changing your thoughts isn't enough to heal chronic pain? Somatic therapy might be the missing piece of your healing puzzle.We dive deep into the crucial distinction between top-down approaches (like CBT and traditiona...