S5 Ep1: The pain we know with Professor Amy Wachholtz

GoHealth Podcast

What is going on in our brain when we experience pain? Are emotional, mental and physical pain the same? Is it all in our heads after all? In this episode of the GoHealth podcast we take a deep dive into the topic of pain, what it is and how to live with it, with Professor Amy Wachholtz.
Prof Amy Wachholtz is an Associate Professor in psychology at the university of Colorado where she is the director of health psychology.
She specializes in talking a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach in identifying ways to improve pain management including in palliative care, acute medical care, chronic pain and addiction.
She is a psychologist who doesn’t just sit in the university but has a license to prescibe, working with patients in care, including those with cancer, chronic pain and at end of life. She is also holds a masters in divinity and has worked as a chaplain.
Gillian and Amy cover:

• How Amy got into the field of pain research.
• What is pain?
• Why we sometimes don't feel pain even when injured in some way.
• The relationship between physical, emotional and mental types of pain.
• The need for a holistic and integrated approach to main management.
• How faith influences living with pain.
• The Ken Pargament Model of the role of religion in pain tolerance.
• How church can help people living with pain.
• Being empowered to live with pain.

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Find out more about Amy's work a the Wachholtz Lab
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