The Pain Game Podcast

The Pain Game Podcast About the game of living with chronic pain + trauma getting to the heart of how to heal.

Thanks for the character development, life. Really generous.
10/10/2025

Thanks for the character development, life. Really generous.

10/09/2025

Alcohol isn’t just a habit — it changes the brain.

As Katie Lain explains, drinking floods the brain with artificial pleasure. Over time, the brain starts to treat alcohol like it’s essential for survival, creating cravings that are hard to ignore.

Understanding the science behind cravings is the first step toward breaking free.

🎙 Full episode is now streaming everywhere. Head to the link in bio to listen.



10/07/2025

Recovery doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

Addiction doesn’t always look like hitting rock bottom—and healing doesn’t have to follow a straight line.

Lyndsay sat down with Katie Lain to talk about the real, messy, deeply personal process of changing your relationship with alcohol. They unpack how alcohol rewires the brain, how the Sinclair Method works to reduce cravings without forcing immediate abstinence, and why shame keeps so many people stuck.

They also dig into early exposure, family patterns, social pressure, and the emotional layers that live beneath the surface of drinking.

This episode is a reminder that recovery isn’t about doing it perfectly. It’s about finding a way forward that’s honest, sustainable, and actually works for you.

You’re allowed to care about the things that shake you.
You’re allowed to cry over the small stuff that doesn’t feel sma...
10/06/2025

You’re allowed to care about the things that shake you.

You’re allowed to cry over the small stuff that doesn’t feel small to you.

You’re allowed to make a big deal out of what hurts.

Because it’s your heart. Your body. Your story.
No one else gets to measure the size of your feelings.

So don’t shrink them just to make someone else comfortable.
Feel it. Move through it. That’s how you heal.

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Does anyone know? Or do we just measure with our hearts? 🤣
09/29/2025

Does anyone know? Or do we just measure with our hearts? 🤣

There’s a breaking point in every woman’s healing.The moment she realizes that the way she was loved…wasn’t actually lov...
09/19/2025

There’s a breaking point in every woman’s healing.

The moment she realizes that the way she was loved…
wasn’t actually love at all.

It was control dressed up as care.
It was silence mistaken for peace.
It was chaos rebranded as passion.
It was pain—sold as devotion.

And to move forward, she has to grieve.
Not just the relationship.
But the version of herself who accepted it.
The girl who thought hurt was normal, who made excuses, who kept trying to earn what should have been given freely.

That grief is heavy.
It’s gutting.
It feels like losing yourself—when really, it’s the first step to finding her.

Because the truth is:
Healing doesn’t just change how you’re loved by others.
It changes how you love yourself.

And that shift? That’s where everything begins.

09/16/2025

Some wounds don’t show up until adulthood—but they’ve been hiding in plain sight.

Lisa Watson gets real about the little girl inside so many of us—the one who’s still waiting to be seen, heard, and held with love.

She shares her Reparent Yourself Method, a practice rooted in meeting yourself exactly where you are… even when it’s messy, even when it hurts.

She and Lyndsay talk about pain as a message, not a problem. The kind of pain that whispers (or sometimes screams) for you to pay attention to what your younger self never got to say.

They dig into how fear shapes our stories, how joy can slowly become a guide, and how healing often means circling back to who you were before the world told you who to be.

This one’s for anyone who’s done letting their past run the show—and is ready to come home to themselves, gently.

Healing isn’t about becoming some polished version of yourself that makes everyone else comfortable.It’s not about fitti...
09/12/2025

Healing isn’t about becoming some polished version of yourself that makes everyone else comfortable.

It’s not about fitting into the box they built for you.
It’s not about proving you’re “better now.”

Healing is about peeling back the layers you were forced to wear.
It’s about remembering the version of you that laughed louder, loved harder, and lived without apology—before someone told you to shrink.
Before they convinced you to hide.

That self? The one buried under survival mode?
They’re still in there. Waiting.

Every boundary you set, every truth you speak, every pattern you break—that’s you fighting your way back to them.

And maybe that’s what healing really is:
Not becoming someone new, but finally coming home to yourself.

09/09/2025

What if healing starts with your imagination?�

Deborah W**d shares how she went from being bedridden and dismissed for three years to reclaiming her voice through creativity, storytelling, and a porcupine named Paisley.

When the world told her to give up, she created something bold and defiant—a Broadway-scale musical and a character who reminds us that self-worth isn’t something you chase. It’s something you remember.

She and Lyndsay talk about the power of imagination, the difference between self-worth and self-esteem, and how our childhood stories shape how we show up in the world. Art, writing, music, movement, whatever your medium, it can become the path back to yourself.

This one’s for anyone who’s felt invisible or small and is ready to take up space again.

Tune in if you're done waiting for permission and ready to protect your truth—quills up.

There are days when everything feels too heavy.When the progress feels fake.When the people who said they’d show up… don...
09/08/2025

There are days when everything feels too heavy.
When the progress feels fake.
When the people who said they’d show up… don’t.
When your own body or mind feels like the enemy.

We know those days.

And on those days—when everything screams “what’s the point?”—
We need you to hear this:

Don’t you f*cking dare lose hope.

Not because it’s easy.
Not because things magically fix themselves.
But because there is a part of you—however small—that still wants more. That still wants better.

That part of you? It’s real.
It’s why you keep waking up.
It’s why you're reading this.
It’s why you’re not done.

Hope isn’t always loud.
Sometimes it’s just breathing through one more hour.
Sometimes it’s letting yourself cry and not apologizing for it.
Sometimes it’s choosing to stay.

So if that’s all you can do today—stay—
That’s more than enough.

We're not here to sugarcoat the pain.
We’re here to remind you:
You are not alone in it.
And your story is still unfolding.

09/02/2025

Chronic pain isn’t just physical. It’s personal. It’s neurological. It’s emotional.

sits down with Dr. Mark Olson to unpack what pain really is—beyond the symptoms, beyond the surface, and deep into the nervous system.

Through a trauma-informed lens, Dr. Olson explains how pain isn’t just about what’s happening in the body, but also in the brain. In the memories. In the survival mechanisms we’ve learned to live with.

They dive into how the brain adapts to pain, why coping isn’t the same as healing, and how validation—being truly seen and believed—can be a powerful part of recovery.

This conversation is for anyone who’s ever been told their pain is “all in their head,” and everyone who’s ready to understand the full picture.

Tune in if you’re done with being dismissed—and ready to explore a deeper kind of healing.

There comes a moment in your healing where you stop asking,"Why am I like this?"…and start asking,"Why am I still lettin...
08/29/2025

There comes a moment in your healing where you stop asking,
"Why am I like this?"
…and start asking,
"Why am I still letting that affect me like this?"

Truth is:
Your body remembers the people who made you feel unsafe, even when your brain tries to make excuses for them.

Every time you shrink to keep the peace…
Every time you bite your tongue so someone else stays comfortable…
Every time you ignore the knot in your stomach so you don’t “start something”…
That’s not kindness. That’s nervous system survival.

And it comes at a cost.

You don’t owe anyone access to you if being around them makes your body feel like it’s under attack.
You don’t have to keep betraying your own peace just to avoid someone else's discomfort.
That’s not love. That’s damage control.

So if you’re starting to choose yourself more—
If you’re setting boundaries, even if they shake—
If you’re listening to your body instead of someone else’s expectations—

Let that be enough for today.
You’re not behind. You’re not broken.
You’re finally paying attention to what you need.
And that changes everything.

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