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Episode Summary
What if your chronic pain, migraines, anxiety, fatigue, IBS, or other persistent symptoms aren’t permanent at all?
In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Mariza sits down with Dr. Howard Schubiner, physician, researcher, and leading expert in neuroplastic symptoms, to explore a groundbreaking approach that is helping people reverse chronic pain and other conditions long considered lifelong and irreversible.
Dr. Schubiner explains how the brain creates pain as a protective danger signal, why emotional injuries can activate the same neural pathways as physical injuries, and how unresolved trauma, chronic stress, adverse childhood experiences, and self-silencing can contribute to chronic symptoms years or even decades later.
Together, they discuss the growing body of research around neuroplastic pain, the connection between emotions and physical symptoms, and why many people continue suffering despite normal scans, medications, and conventional treatments.
Dr. Mariza also shares her own experience with chronic migraines, leading to a powerful live demonstration of how pain reprocessing techniques can begin shifting the brain’s expectations and neural patterns in real time.
This conversation offers hope for anyone who has been told they simply need to manage their symptoms for the rest of their life.
HOWARD SCHUBINER
Dr. Howard Schubiner is a physician, researcher, educator, and one of the leading voices in the field of neuroplastic symptoms. He is the author of Unlearn Your Pain and has spent decades helping patients recover from chronic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, IBS, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and other conditions through evidence-based approaches rooted in neuroscience, emotional processing, and neuroplasticity.
IN THIS EPISODE
- What neuroplastic symptoms are and why they are often misunderstood
- How childhood experiences, trauma, and chronic stress can contribute to chronic pain
- Why migraines, IBS, fibromyalgia, anxiety, and fatigue may share similar brain-based mechanisms
- The powerful connection between emotions and physical symptoms
- How pain reprocessing therapy helps retrain the brain’s danger signals
- Why self-silencing and people-pleasing often show up in women with chronic symptoms
- The role of emotional awareness and expression in healing
- A live demonstration of changing neural pathways through visualization and safety signals
QUOTES
“Pain can be a message that our brain sends.”
“Emotional injury causes the same parts of the brain to light up as physical injury.”
“Chronic pain is not necessarily a life sentence.”
RESOURCES MENTIONED
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