Center for Insight Medicine

10/10/2025

What a great venue and time spent w/ these two practitioners. Grateful to have been invited and I really enjoyed the conversation! Check it out!

In this episode, osteopathic physician Dr. Matt McClanahan explains the science of how mindfulness heals chronic pain by changing our relationship with sympt...

01/23/2024

Check out my New Year Newsletter, if you haven't already perused...🤓

07/20/2023

Here's a link to my latest newsletter - check it out! http://mailchi.mp/995fb9c19a6f/summernewsletter2023

(Personally, I think the coolest thing in it is this video 🤓: https://bigthink.com/the-well/neuroscience-of-trauma/)

03/19/2023

03/15/2023

Nice to see yet another Sarno recovery story!
(tho his book, "The Divided Mind" is his best 🤓)
https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/jimmy-kimmel-reveals-celebrity-secret-to-healing-back-pain/?fbclid=IwAR0FGygJkMHuFLZMS5NbPe1UVXnjS1MuUYPLZ2E6TvVEI7r58NAthfpT538

After reading this book, “I’ll be damned if my back pain hasn’t gone away,” Kimmel said.

09/08/2022

There's a LOT going on! Check out our Nearly-Fall Insight Medicine Newsletter!

07/14/2022

Here's a thought: Stress does NOT cause physical symptoms.

Stress, however, causes EMOTIONS to rise (especially interpersonal stress) which, when routinely suppressed, causes our nervous systems to have no way to get our attention & protect us (the purpose of emotions...) except by activating physical symptoms.

Check out the article for a brief description. Would love your comments!

It’s no secret that symptoms like chronic pain and anxiety are related to stress. Even the mainstream medical field has embraced this basic…

05/20/2022

🤓 Here’s your trauma-informed provocative quote for the day from the article:

“[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is] a great way to polish the hood... and the car looks better when you polish the hood, but it doesn’t mean it works better if the problem is in the engine.”

In a new book, the US-based psychiatrist explores what he calls an invisible epidemic that many of us are suffering from in silence: trauma.

02/27/2022

I had the great privilege of joining Ed Jones (The Holistic Navigator) on his Nutrition World podcast where we discussed the complexities of pain:
🧐 How chronic pain is similar to & different from acute pain.
🤓 The neuroscience of how pain perpetuates & gets amplified.
🤔 Why some people get it & some don't.
😇 Pain's connections to our autonomic & emotional systems.
💪 What you can do about it!

Would love to hear what you think!

Meet Dr. Matt McClanahan:On this episode we welcome Dr. Matt McClanahan. Dr. McClanahan is an osteopathic physician (D.O.) specializing in holistic approache...

01/06/2022

Did you get our latest newsletter? It's packed full of excellent resources + upcoming events! --> https://mailchi.mp/b9fd36d4b907/happy-holidays-from-cim-861215

Not on our email list? Sign up to receive future e-pdates and stay on top of the latest neuroscience research and helpful links. --> http://eepurl.com/gCcSwz

12/09/2021

😃+🤬+😭+😆+😞+🥰 = 💪🤓

4 Dec 2021 You Have to Feel to Heal – Emotional Awareness by David Hanscom | posted in: Recent, Stage 4, Stage 4: Step 4 | 0 Objectives Since emotional pain is processed in a similar manner as physical pain, why would you want to feel it? It is why our first instinct is to repress it. Repressed....

11/10/2021

Lots of great articles and insights on the neuroscience of pain (AND RECOVERY FROM IT!) in the media lately! 🤓

NYT Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/well/mind/john-sarno-chronic-pain-relief.html?fbclid=IwAR2z0okCcyIAPxUd7Xgb4hFKVWYUvRzLbLJjwNYPuDPxHv_p9p6U6HGJspo

ABC News Piece: https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20211108215326-researchers-have-discovered-a-new-method-to-help-with-chronic-back-pain-thats-helping-some-patients-rethink-their-relationship-with-pai/

A science writer investigates the 30-year-old claims of an iconoclastic doctor who said chronic pain was mostly mental.