The Pain Factor
What is pain? Where does it come from? Is there anything we can do to control it, overcome it, even leverage it?
This podcast is a comprehensive exploration of physical, mental, and emotional pain. Through shared information, personal narratives, and professional insight, we aim to understand this complex reality.
We want to be clear: this is not a self-help podcast. It is about fostering accountability while maintaining a human approach to sensitive issues. Religion, mysticism and positive thinking are things we purposefully, and adamantly, distance ourselves from.
Before facing the challenge, we get to know it better. This is what this podcast is about.
Join us on this essential quest for understanding, empowerment, and ultimate freedom.
The Pain Factor
Latest Episodes
TPF The Right Forest
Most of us are rushing through life, desperately trying to cross hurdles without first understanding which "forest" we actually need to cross. What if the biggest challenge isn’t the obstacle itself but the clarity — or confusion — about whethe...
TPF #27: Adriene Caldwell - From Trauma to Triumph: Healing from Childhood Abuse
Adriene Caldwell is the Author of “Unbroken: Life outside the lines”, a story of destruction and discovery - of darkness given free rein and an innate light that refuses to dim.In this compelling interview, Adrian shares her inspiring jo...
TPF #26: Nancy Deyo - From perfectionism to pain to true freedom
Nancy Deyo is a former Silicon Valley CEO, author and speaker, and a Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow. Her forthcoming memoir, Perilous Ascent, chronicles a fifteen-year journey through misdiagnosis, chronic pain, opioid dependen...
TPF #25: Jeff Armine - Chronic illness: Overwhelmed, not broken
Dr. Jess Armine is a functional medicine practitioner with nearly 50 years of clinical experience. He specializes in Long COVID, post-viral syndromes, and complex chronic illness. His work focuses on mitochondrial dysfunction, immune dysregulat...
TPF #24: Brian Desroches - Why Your Brain Protects You from Change
Brian Desroches, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, neuroscientist, and author of Living a Triggered Free Life.In this eye-opening episode, Brian DesRoches reveals how your brain’s survival bias keeps you stuck in...