Chronic pain therapist Nicole Sachs explains how mind-body therapy and nervous system regulation work together to alleviate long-term pain and heal generational trauma in episode 232 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.

Nicole Sachs, LCSW, is a psychotherapist known for helping people recover from persistent physical symptoms by addressing emotional stress patterns, fear, and conditioned responses in the brain. She trained with John Sarno, MD, a rehabilitation physician at NYU’s Rusk Center for Rehabilitative Medicine whose work helped popularize the TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) model. Through her clinical practice, podcast, and book Mind Your Body, Sachs teaches that unresolved emotions and inherited family dynamics can surface as real physical symptoms — and that education and self-compassion are key to breaking the cycle.

In this conversation, Faust and Nicole examine why so many people live with ongoing physical symptoms despite doing everything “right.” Their discussion moves through pain, emotion, and perception, questioning what the body is responding to when tests come back inconclusive. Sachs challenges common assumptions about recovery and introduces a different way of understanding what the body may be signaling when it refuses to settle.

In this episode:
🧠 Why physical symptoms don’t always align with medical findings
⚠️ How fear and vigilance shape pain responses
🧬 The influence of early life experiences and inherited patterns
🪞 Why forcing recovery can backfire
🔁 Distraction vs. denial — and how each affects healing
🧩 How learned responses form around symptoms
🌿 The role of self-compassion in recovery
🔓 Why curiosity matters more than control
🧘 How the body changes when perceived threat subsides
📘 What it means to understand pain rather than simply manage it

Discover a different way of thinking about pain… and what becomes possible when the body is no longer treated as the enemy.

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