Chronic pain doesn’t have to control your life. In this powerful episode, Pain Elimination Coach Scotty Stiles breaks down the real reason most people stay stuck in chronic pain — and how neuroplastic pain, emotional stress, fear, and old conditioning keep the pain cycle alive. Scotty explains how to heal chronic pain, how to rewire the brain, and how to break free from the 7 F’s that fuel pain: fear, focus, fighting, frustration, fixing, figuring out, and feeling forlorn. If you’ve wondered why your chronic pain doesn’t match your MRI… why nothing seems to fix it… or why pain moves around your body — this conversation will finally make it all make sense. Scotty shares exactly how he healed 15+ years of chronic back pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, and anxiety using mindbody techniques, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, emotional awareness, and nervous system retraining
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why chronic pain is often neuroplastic, not structural
How fear and the nervous system create real physical pain
How emotional suppression and perfectionism trigger chronic pain
Why MRIs often mislead people about the root cause of pain
How to break the pain-fear cycle and retrain your brain
What the 7 F’s are and how they keep you stuck in pain
The exact steps to heal chronic pain naturally and safely
How to turn sensitivity into strength and build emotional safety
Chapters:
00:00 — How to heal chronic pain: Scotty’s journey begins
01:15 — Emotional pain vs physical pain in chronic symptoms
03:40 — Discovering neuroplastic pain & mindbody connection
06:10 — Early anxiety, pressure & the first pain triggers
09:20 — Predictive coding: why chronic pain repeats
12:10 — The moment chronic pain became daily
14:45 — MRI myths & why scans don’t explain chronic pain
21:05 — Belief systems that keep chronic pain alive
23:50 — Mindbody breakthrough: reading Dr. Sarno
27:00 — The “symptom imperative” explained
'31:20 — How to heal chronic pain by reducing fear & meaning
38:40 — Why trying to fix pain keeps you stuck
41:20 — The 7 F’s that fuel chronic pain
45:10 — Rewiring the brain through new responses
48:00 — Building safety, emotional awareness & resilience
50:30 — Scotty’s final advice: You can heal chronic pain 🌿
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