138: Understanding the psychosocial role of your pain with Charlie Merrill

Our Power Is Within: Heal Chronic Illness & Pain

This episode is brought to you by Somia (previously known as CFS School), a nervous system healing program.

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In today’s episode I get to pick Charlie's brain. We deep dive into things like:

• What is the difference between primary & secondary pain
• Beginning to understand how all pain has a psychosocial element
• All pain is real, but is it physical?
• How to assess and determine the nature of our pain
• The bigger opportunities that come out of our pain
• How to build your physical capacity
• Understanding how important it is to feel safe
• SO much more!

Charlie Merrill is a Physical Therapist and the founder of Merrill Performance in Boulder, CO. He's synthesized treatment of the mind and body for over 20 years to support people in returning to a high level of performance in their lives. In his practice, Charlie combines traditional hands on manual therapy care with a novel mind-body approach to treat a wide range of clients including some of the best runners, cyclists, rock climbers, and CrossFitters in the world.

Charlie co-created the course "Beyond Pain Education" with Dr Howard Schubiner to educate and mentor clinicians who are traditionally body oriented how to transition toward a more psychosocially informed approach to pain and function.

He’s a content creator appearing on Podcasts, Instagram, his channel on YouTube, and is active on social media supporting people in pain. He's launching a course aimed at athletes struggling to overcome pain to improve performance.

Charlie consults in the technology space, currently with Lin Health, a digital health platform that aims to scale evidence based pain care and he serves on the medical advisory board for "The Better Mind Center".

Ways to connect with Charlie:

▶website: http://Mperformance.com (Here you will also be able to learn more about Beyond Pain Education & Sign up

▶IG: https://www.instagram.com/charliemerrill/?hl=en

▶https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCinoyk46RyzA1v6PqbUl8_w

▶FB: https://www.facebook.com/charlie.s.merrill

Ways to connect with me:

▶Website: www.ourpoweriswithin.com

▶ IG @OurPowerIsWithin

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