Jennifer Johnson

Thought by Thought Healing

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Thought By Thought Healing is a podcast for those looking to overcome chronic pain & symptoms. I am Jen Johnson, chronic pain coach, and this show is focused on discussing everything related to curing persistent symptoms with evidence-based techniques. I am a Christian and when I first discovered the mind-body syndrome - also referred to as TMS, neuroplastic pain, & neural circuit pain - I was struck by how the neuroscience of pain and the mind body connection align perfectly with scripture. I recovered from my own story of pain as I understood how our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes & emotions p...

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Jennifer Johnson

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8 - shame has a nasty role in chronic pain 07.06.2022 17:40

Shame is a fear response that isn’t based in truth. We know who we are in Christ. But when feel shame take over as our identity, it causes us to not be able to hear God’s voice clearly and causes us to ask the question “what if?” This causes us to live in perpetual fear that makes our brains on edge looking out for ways we are “wrong”. Our brains perceive this as danger and send a warning to our b...

7 - people pleasing increases chronic pain 07.06.2022 10:01

In healing, we start to peel back the layers of our pain to discover what is dysregulating our nervous system. When we people- please we get a hit of chemicals that make us feel good and acceptance. But the cost of this is high. Often times in order to keep others happy and pleased with us, we are suppressing our thoughts, opinions, beliefs and emotions. It causes our brains to be on high alert -...

6- perfectionism is a layer to chronic pain 26.05.2022 12:04

We are not perfect, in fact, and we are perfectly safe being flawed. When we operate out of the fact that we have to earn acceptance, love and safety by being perfect, it causes the nervous system to be hyper-vigilant and in a constant state of earning safety. The brain will constantly be looking for rejection and disapproval. This causes hyper-vigilance and pain. The truth is, we are made perfect...

5- somatic tracking exercise 25.05.2022 12:29

In this episode I describe somatic tracking and I also lead you through a guided somatic tracking exercise.

4 - pain can be learned and unlearned 25.05.2022 5:28

Our brain’s use past experiences to predict how it will experience future sensations. This is called Predictive Coding. But we can interrupt this cycle, in part, by avoiding Howard Schubiner’s 6 F’s: Fear Focusing on it Frustrated by it Figuring it out Fighting it Fixing it

3- short summary of the mind body connection 25.05.2022 3:46

In this episode, I discuss the following: 1. What the mind-body connection is. 2.How it causes pain. 3.How the fear of structural damage causes the pain itself. 4. How this becomes cyclical. 5. Why there is hope for healing.

2 - how I reversed my pain by rewiring my brain 24.05.2022 24:00

Hi there, In this second video of my Thought by Thought series, I explain the mind body connection including what systems are activated when we are emotionally triggered and how that becomes chronic pain. I share a couple of my strategies for turning off the pain alarm and starting to live pain free. Here is a list of some chronic symptoms and pain that can be healed through the mind-body connecti...

1 - how I healed through the mind body connection - tms 24.05.2022 23:17

In this episode I discuss how important it is to understand the following four things. 1.pain is produced by the brain. 2. pain is a protector that the brain sends as a warning of danger to us. 3 The brain can produce pain when warning us of not only physical harm, but also of emotional harm. 4. The brain can become hyper-vigilant to feeling unsafe. The good news is that you can retrain this alarm...