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The Mind-Body Couple

Tanner Murtagh and Anne Hampson

Tanner Murtagh and Anne Hampson are therapists who treat neuroplastic pain and mind-body symptoms. They are also married! In his 20s, Tanner overcame chronic pain and a fibromyalgia diagnosis by learning his symptoms were occurring due to learned brain pathways and nervous system dysregulation. Post-healing, Tanner and Anne have dedicated their lives to developing effective treatment and education for neuroplastic pain and symptoms. Listen and learn how to assess your own chronic pain and symptoms,

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25:47

Why Do Women Experience More Chronic Pain & Symptoms?

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2026/04/23

The rules many women are handed... be agreeable, don’t be too much, handle everything... aren’t just exhausting. They reshape the nervous system’s sense of safety and can wire the body for neuroplastic pain and symptoms. We connect the dots between culture, trauma, medical minimization, and neuroplastic pain/symptoms, and consider how small steps can lead women to recover voice and rebuild fair systems at home and work. Neuroplastic pain and symptoms are 100% real, but rather than being a re...

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39:35

How to Find The Right Therapist for Chronic Pain &...

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2026/04/09

If you're using a mind-body approach to heal your chronic pain/symptoms, the right therapist is a game-changer. Tanner sits down with fellow chronic pain psychotherapist, Paul LePointe, to discuss different therapy approaches and styles. Tanner and Paul discuss their practice, help you understand your options, and provide practical ideas on how to find the right therapist for you. Tanner and Paul both experienced chronic, debilitating neuroplastic pain - and recovered! They now provide 1-on-1...

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25:32

Somatic Tracking for Chronic Pain & Symptoms: Free Guide

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2026/03/26

Tanner hosts a solo episode, sharing a free somatic tracking practice from the MBody Community digital course. Tanner first explains how chronic pain and symptoms can be neuroplastic (caused by the brain, not the body). He then breaks down the sensitization cycle - the feedback loop that makes symptoms sustain and worsen. Tanner provides practical instructions on the how to use somatic tracking to retrain your brain and desensitize pain/symptoms. The episode includes a free somatic tracking g...

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33:14

Treat the Root Cause: Fatigue & Long Covid feat. Dr....

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2026/03/12

In this episode, we are joined by one of the world's leading expert physicians on neuroplastic pain and symptoms. Dr. Rebecca Kennedy sits down with Tanner, sharing science, personal stories, and practical ideas to get to the root of chronic symptoms - and heal! We discuss how chronic fatigue and long COVID are commonly neuroplastic - meaning they are generated by the brain and nervous system, not ongoing physical damage or disease. You'll lean: • Why downstream biomarkers reflect brain func...

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26:47

Trauma Triggers: What can I do when I freeze?

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2026/02/26

We answer a listener’s question about the freeze response, teaching a straightforward method to move from freeze to safety. We normalize triggers and provide practical ideas you can use to respond when your nervous system drops in to danger mode. • Learn the ADDS skill: ask why, drop in, describe, shift to safety • Hear Tanner's personal story of rejection and freeze, and how he got out For more free content, check out the links for our YouTube channel, Instagram, and Facebook accounts in th...

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23:36

THE #1 Strategy to Cure Neuroplastic Pain or Symptoms

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2026/02/12

In this special episode, where we're joined by our producer (and fellow psychotherapist) Alex Klassen. We each showed up - without any previous conversation - ready to share our answer to the question: What is THE #1 Strategy to Cure Neuroplastic Pain or Symptoms? And as you might predict - we didn't all pick the same strategy! Join us as we discuss: Becoming informed about neuroplastic pain and symptomsDiving in to the workShow and tell method for nervous system retrainingThe importanc...

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33:44

Career Success While Healing Chronic Symptoms

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2026/01/29

Ambition doesn’t have to cost your health. We start with the core problem: living neck up. Our culture rewards cognition—thinking, fixing, producing—while the body’s signals get ignored until they become symptoms. We dig into how to build a meaningful career without reigniting chronic pain/symptoms or overwhelming your nervous system. Tanner shares his personal experience, running two small businesses and staying healthy. We share a simple, fast tool called drop-in and describe: a 30–60 secon...

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24:36

Work Somatically to Heal Trauma

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2026/01/15

We answer Joni’s question about healing medical trauma after a health scare and show how to restore nervous system regulation using embodiment, exposure, and personal safety signals. We break down therapy room steps and an at-home plan to reduce dysregulation following traumatic events. We explore: • Medical trauma as a driver of health anxiety and chronic symptoms • Why avoidance reinforces danger • Embodiment defined and made practical • Building personalized safety signals before process...

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31:01

Make 2026 The Year You Heal Chronic Pain and Symptoms

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2026/01/01

Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.ca Ready to make 2026 the year you unlearn chronic pain or symptoms? We’re laying out 4 clear steps to heal. We start by reframing chronic symptoms through a neuroplastic lens: when assessments are clear and physical fixes stall, it often means the body is capable but the brain’s danger system is overprotective. From there, we dig into full commitment—trading treatment inconsistentcy for dedicated daily practic...

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41:55

Holiday Survival Guide For Chronic Pain & Illness

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2025/12/18

The holidays can be filled with joy, but for many living with chronic pain or chronic illness, December brings spikes in symptoms, packed calendars, and pressure to perform happiness. We unpack why this happens through a brain and nervous system lens and share a realistic survival guide you can actually use, even on your busiest days. We break down how neuroplastic pain and illness amplifies under holiday “danger signals” such as: family conflict or distance, pressure, people pleasing, finan...

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35:35

Can You Combine Physiotherapy with a Neuroplastic...

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2025/12/11

What if the most powerful lever for chronic pain isn’t in your muscles or joints, but in your brain’s prediction system? We sit down with Jim Prussack a physiotherapist who left a strictly structural model behind after diving deep into pain science, mentorship with John Sarno and Howard Schubiner, and years on the front lines of complex cases. The takeaway is both hopeful and concrete. We walk through how to tell if symptoms are neuroplastic—looking at timelines, flares tied to stress, incon...

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43:27

Why I Stuck With Tanner Through His Chronic Pain Journey

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2025/12/04

Send your questions to be answered live on the podcast to: info@painpsychotherapy.ca Love doesn’t disappear when chronic pain shows up, but it can get buried under appointments, bills, and long stretches of silence. We open up about the years when pain became the only topic in our home, the ways our roles warped into caregiver and patient, and the slow, deliberate choices that helped us find our way back to closeness while symptoms were still present. This is a story about social safety—how...

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38:01

Polyvagal Theory for Chronic Pain & Symptoms

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2025/11/27

We unpack polyvagal theory, starting with neuroception, the body’s below-conscious radar that constantly scans for danger or safety. When that radar gets oversensitive after stress, adversity, or trauma, it misreads harmless cues as threats. The result is chronic dysregulation that fuels neuroplastic pain, fatigue, gut issues, and anxiety—even when your logical mind says, “I’m fine.” We walk through the four core states—ventral vagal (safe and social), sympathetic (fight or flight), fawn (pe...

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21:22

Try this Free 30-Day Program for Chronic Pain and...

The Mind-Body Couple ·

2025/11/13

PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER BELOW BEFORE BEGINNING THIS PROGRAM. If you live with chronic pain, fatigue, or illness, you’ve probably tried everything — medications, treatments, diets — and nothing seems to work long-term. That’s because for many people, the real root of chronic symptoms isn’t in the body… it’s in the brain and nervous system. This video introduces a free 30-day program designed to help you retrain your brain, calm your nervous system, and begin healing from chronic pain and ...

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36:10

Can Repressing Emotions Cause Chronic Pain and Illness?

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2025/11/06

What if the aches, tension, and fatigue you’ve been fighting are your emotions asking to be felt? We unpack the research on emotional suppression and show how a nervous system stuck in “danger” can translate stress into very real pain/illness—without structural damage. Drawing on studies of suppression and stress reactivity and clinical insights from neuroplastic pain work, we make the science practical, humane, and doable in everyday life. We walk through four patterns that keep feelings tr...

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49:23

Healing Chronic Pain Is Possible — Here’s How I Did It

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2025/10/30

What if your most stubborn pain isn’t a broken body, but a brilliant brain trying to protect you? We open up about Tanner’s journey from spreading knee, shoulder, and back pain to a full recovery, and how the real turning point came when he reframed pain as a danger signal from the nervous system—not proof of damage. You’ll hear the messy middle too: fear, failed treatments, shrinking routines, and the isolation that follows when life gets small. We break down the five pillars that changed e...

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28:02

8 Tips & Tricks for Brain Retraining — Rewiring the...

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2025/10/23

Your brain can learn safety, and that changes everything about chronic pain and illness. We’re pulling back the curtain on brain retraining—what it is, what it isn’t, and how to use it day to day without turning healing into a pressure-filled project. If you’ve ever tried a practice, felt your pain/symptom drop once, and then chased that result like a pain pill, this conversation will reset your approach in the most helpful way. We start by defining brain retraining in clear terms and ground...

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32:26

Healing Trauma Caused by Chronic Pain and Illness

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2025/10/16

The body’s alarm system can get stuck on high when chronic pain and persistent symptoms take over, and we give that pattern a name: sensitization trauma. We unpack how symptoms, scary medical opinions, and hope-disappointment cycles teach the nervous system to brace, avoid, and shut down—and why recognizing this isn’t a setback, it’s a turning point. We start by defining sensitization trauma as the trauma caused by the onset, progression, and life impacts of chronic symptoms, then walk throu...

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Part 2: How to Go from Bed Bound to Fully Moving

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2025/10/02

Fear quietly writes rules that shrink a life: no hard chairs, no long walks, no lifting, no plans. In this episode, we share a practical roadmap to go from bedbound and fearful to confident and moving, grounded in the science of neuroplastic pain/symptoms and the lived experience of rebuilding capacity step by step. We start with the real pivot points—those “open window” moments when symptoms ease or stamina returns and the brain shows its hand. From there, we layer in safe self-talk that ac...

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Part 1: How to Go from Bed Bound to Fully Moving

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2025/09/25

Have you found yourself avoiding more and more activities as your pain or symptoms increase? Do you have an ever-growing list of movements, positions, or situations you need to avoid "or else"? You're not alone, and there's a fascinating explanation for why this happens. Tanner and Anne dive deep into how chronic pain creates a shrinking world through avoidance behaviors. Drawing from Tanner's personal journey from being nearly bed-bound to fully active again, they explain the neurological m...

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