Move With Deb the Podcast

In this episode I touch in briefly about why the brain as a predictive organ will continue to create body pain and muscle inhibition. I walk you through my experiences in doing a stair walking practice and the ways I am leading my mindbody through various internal conversation and the outcomes I'm experiencing. I talk about being out of breath and building strength and surety.   

This week I am chatting about Urgency and Urges and the felt sense of those emotions and experiences in the body. The work I do on helping you and me, develop a new relationship with the sensations in our bodies, is to create safety in being able to observe the stories we are telling ourselves about a feeling, thought, circumstance.... And when I say story, I don't mean like a fairy tale. So maybe...

I've been on the struggle bus my dears and my mindbody symptoms have been flaring and freaking me out. It took me a few days to tango with my fear brain and here's my story about it all.  I hope that this helps. Please feel free to reach out to me via instagram @movewithdeb or book a curiosity call at https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb My website is www.debmalkin.com

So in coaching we say that we don't know what's best for our clients. But I realized that I actually feel like I've been lying to you. Because I do think I know what's best. I think it would be best for you to learn the skill of developing curious awareness of your thoughts. That's my confession. It's my hard sell. I think that it's the key to unlocking our conditioned survival responses of pain,...

Today's podcast I discuss my process of falling back into old reassurance rumination compulsions while experiencing unexpected pain after getting a tattoo cover-up and I share the concept of 50/50. I discuss the way I turned it all around with the simple question, "What Am I Making My Pain Mean?". And applied some strategies to side step the need for constant checking and gained further helpful se...

Today's Podcast is all about learning to allow any feeling or sensation by cultivating your curiosity through asking the question, "What Am I Making This Mean?" I take you with me to the beach, then exploring some back pain and my tattoo and how I use this process with my clients. You're even invited to a Being Human Party, along with all our feelings and see what happens when we try to keep Fear...

I answer a few questions that have come up about Neuroplastic pain. So happy to answer questions!

You ever have that friend/colleague you love to talk shop with? That's me and @larissa_parson She's a pelvic floor movement coach/teacher who in her words "I help you restore your core, without the shame, oppression, and misogyny that turns women's bodies into a problem." In this video we discuss her own insights as a movement teacher as well as a person with a body that has reoccurring pain. We d...

Lauren & I talk about her successes in my Chronic Pain Recovery Program. One of the things I loved about working with Lauren was meeting her where she was with all her skepticism, doubt, confusion, disbelief that her pain could ever change. She had lived for 20 years with weekly migraines and was told by Doctors that she should feel lucky that the meds for for her. How could a program that's o...

Ash and Deb chat about faer participation in the original 4 week Fear Brain & Chronic Pain Program. (now 8 weeks) One of my favorite parts of my chronic pain recovery program is how much of it is about co-creation. Here's Ash and I talking about hopes and fears about enrolling in this course and the personal coaching experience. Take a listen. Head on over to YouTube if you want to watch our c...

Hi everyone, it's episode #11 and I'm working with a new recording program that makes a transcript. Yay for new technology!!!  Always learning something new around here.  Always celebrating learning and moving myself to the place of doing my podcast is fun and easy! So today's podcast is a sweet and fun conversation over messenger with my friend Eva, who is someone I know from Kara Lowen...

Here's a practice for you if you feel pain when getting up in the morning or when you are getting up from a chair or a couch after sitting for a long time. There are 3 parts to this: Visualization Thought Dump Relaxed Replacement Thought Repetition Try this pain brain reprogramming practice.  Let me know how it goes! What shifts are you noticing?  Here's a link to Dan's Crushing Doubt in...

(first off, I totally apologize for all the extra noise in the beginning of the podcast, apparently I was shuffling things around and wasn't away how freaking loud that was going to be. I know now, and will adjust for next time) Fear  Maybe even reading that word your body gave you a reaction.... In this podcast I discuss the embodiment of fear & avoidance and how to the messy path forwar...

Using a fun and interesting experiment we can play with the volume and intensity of physical sensations thereby revealing their neural plastic nature.  I discuss one part of a process from Dr. Schubiner called pressure testing in which we test and then retrain the brain to experience an innocuous sensation in a new way. Please when doing anything take care of yourself, as it can be a little t...

Listen up! In this episode I share why this collective experiment with managing the symptoms of the vaccine are the same exact tools I teach around changing the experience of pain.  Be your own scientist in this great mind/body laboratory! I share some client stories about their vaccine prep and navigating unpleasant sensations, including #barfclub and other incidents with nausea! And as alwa...

This week I share some concepts that I blend into my pain recovery program which I call cognitive-somatic mapping. I discussed the experience of The Felt Sense in last week's episode. Cognitive Fusion is a concept from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that helps people see that their thoughts are just sentences in their mind. Hey! That's the same concept I work with in regards to using "the model...

In this episode I discuss the concept of The Felt Sense.  I share the work of Dr. Gedlin, the founder of Focusing and namer of the idea of "the felt sense". I read from this article - https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-issues-are-in-our-tissues-focusing-as-a-somatic-approach-to-therapy#1 You don't need to understand the concept of a felt sense to become aware of them. I share two personal stor...

Content announcement, I mention my friend's death from Covid. What is the felt sense of the thought? In this episode I discuss the feelings about the willingness or not to have and experience feelings and how that becomes a trigger for our threat alarm. I discuss the difference between emotional allowance & expression.  I start to noodle out the beginnings of some deeper workings on the t...

The brain isn't for thinking!  So why do we have so many freaking thoughts all the time? I share my love for Lisa Feldman Barrett and her work on emotions and the brain and how these concepts help me help my clients change the pain in their body.   Grab some hot tips on how to change your mood. And learn why I love looking at clouds.  Learn more about my work at debmalkin.com &...

This episode was inspired by the headache I had after creating and posting episode one.  I also share some of my wholistic beliefs that I organize my program around (pulled from my teaching materials so the audio quality is different fyi).  I hope you enjoy listening. Maybe it sparks some thoughts and feelings for you as well.  

Hi! I'm Deb Malkin. In this introduction episode I share a little bit about my background as a bodyworker, former plus size fashionista, fat activist and new my work as a pain recovery coach. You'll hear my story of osteoarthritis knee pain and how I discovered my new paradigm about neural circuit theory pain, my introduction to Dr. Sarno and the Curable app. Find out more about my Fear Brain &amp...