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
TPF #21: Leigh Brandon - Pain: our greatest gift?
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Leigh Brandon is a CHEK (Corrective, Holistic, Exercise, and Kinesiology) Practitioner and Faculty Instructor, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Manual Therapist, Emotion Code Practitioner and the author and host of "Beyond the Pain" Podcast. He has almost 30 years specializing in helping people overcome chronic pain by uncovering the root causes — whether structural, biochemical, emotional, or environmental — and guiding them through sustainable lifestyle change so they can become responsible for their own health.
In this conversation, Gustavo and Leigh explore the multifaceted nature of pain, emphasizing that it can be a gift that signals underlying issues. Leigh shares his extensive experience in helping individuals manage chronic pain through holistic approaches, including understanding the root causes, the importance of mindset, and the interplay between physical and emotional health. They discuss how societal conditioning often leads to a misunderstanding of pain, and how addressing both physical and emotional aspects can lead to effective pain management and recovery.
Follow Leigh:
- on Instagram: #beyondthepainpod
- on YouTube: @beyondthepainpodcast
- on X: Beyond the Pain
Learn more about Leigh's work at BodyCHECK.co.uy.
You can also download the Pain-Free Plate here.
The Pain Factor is a Project Fourtress podcast.
Project Fourtress is a secular, humanist project, dedicated to find answers to the physical, mental and emotional pain people experience, as well as offer help to deal with these issues. To learn more about Project Fourtress, please visit fourtress.org.