Episode 7
Healing Pain: A Trauma-informed Approach
September 20, 2022
In this episode, Lyndsay Soprano talks with her guest, Dr. Deepak Ravindran, about mindfulness and his trauma-informed approach to healing.
Lyndsay starts off the episode by having her audience take a deep breath in and out. And starts with the topic of mindfulness in our healing of trauma and pain. How healing can be just a breath away sometimes. She always says, “take a beat.”
We all need to do so! So, take one.
She speaks about how pain has started to define her worth. So how do we decide who takes the front burner in our lives versus the back burner?
Lyndsay’s guest, Dr. Deepak Ravindran from the UK, speaks today with her about his trauma-informed approach to healing. Where compassion and mindfulness with his humans take the front burner! It’s hard to believe how hard it is to find doctors that actually listen and spend time with you.
If only every doctor in the pain community started there with that why that overlap between pain and trauma, right, and the science behind it. And that’s why Lyndsay spoke with our guest today. So, we start our conversation with my guest, Dr. Deepak Ravindran, author of The Pain Free Mindset: Seven Steps to Take Control and Overcome Chronic Pain. (Available on Kindle in the states and for physical purchase in the UK on Amazon.)
He has over 20 years of experience in pain management and is a physician-researcher working full-time in the UK National Health Service System as a clinical director and in pain medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He is part of the Scientific Advisory Board at Curable, which is amazing, by the way, MyPain, and is also part of the Footsteps Festival team and a Flippin’ Pain Friend. Additionally, he is an advisor of the UK’s first online pain clinic called the Leva Clinic.
He speaks about how he got here as a doctor and how his humans have been through treatment after treatment until they find him. And five years ago, he shifted some of his approach toward trauma-informed healing.
And that really is the point for him trauma-informed care is being aware that each one of us carries some element of trauma to the way we have experienced life around us. Some more than others, but that doesn’t mean trauma to someone is the same to another. Pain is pain is pain.
But when you’ve got a nervous system that’s threatened, that’s hypersensitive and that’s where the role of importance of nutritional strategies, importance of stress reduction techniques, doubling down on sleep optimization, getting some physical activity that can build new nerve circuits, looking at trauma, reducing techniques like grounding techniques or somatic tracking all of these can make a difference.
They moved on to discuss successes and failures at a high level and dove deeper into his approach and his clinic.
Lyndsay also posed the question about how HE feels and compartmentalizes all of these humans in pain coming to him for help. Some are on their last leg! Part of that healing of his own is grounding and meditation. But it’s not easy. It’s heavy conversing with chronic pain humans and those that love them.
You can find Dr. Deepak Ravindran on his social media and his website. All are in the resources below.
Let’s get to the heart of how to heal. With you by her side.
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Resources
https://deepakravindran.co.uk/
https://deepakravindran.co.uk/contact-thanks/
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0887XLP8X
https://www.curablehealth.com/
https://twitter.com/festivalpain
https://www.flippinpain.co.uk/real-stories/
https://www.facebook.com/DrDeepakRavindran/
https://www.instagram.com/drdeepakravindran/