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May 2024
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Trauma, Pain, & Addiction | Pain Pod

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Remember Pain Guy’s TEDx talk “Mise en Scene: Pain, Addiction, and YOU”? It was all about the cinematic experience, right? Well on this episode of the Pain Pod, we welcome Helen Sairany, an author and pharmacist known all across our globe (yes, internationally!) for her countless efforts to educate and help folks improve and save lives in respect to trauma. Helen digs into the roots of pain, addiction, trauma, and childhood experiences like no other!

Pain Guy knows many people that just couldn’t put her books down. So now it’s time to hear directly from her on the Pain Pod!

Come one, come all, to the Pain Pod!!!

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