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May 2019
22m 12s

81. Pain & Illness

KARA LOEWENTHEIL
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Join me today, my chickens, as I teach you some tools and ways of thinking about pain and chronic illness, or acute illness. I have some great resources to share that may be able to help you reduce or eliminate the physical pain itself once you stop believing that it means something is going wrong.  

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