The Catapult Effect
Welcome to The Catapult Effect Podcast, designed for two distinct groups: professionals ready to transform their challenges into growth and resilience, and first responders seeking to counteract the stress of their demanding work.
Each episode will feature either:
- Expert Interviews: Insights from leading experts to help you catapult forward quickly.
- Solo Episodes: In-depth discussions providing a deeper understanding of your current experiences.
Season 2 is dedicated to first responders.
Season 3 focuses on professionals.
Don't miss out on Season 1 when it was known as The Pain Changer®. Discover valuable wisdom on pain management and various techniques to reduce pain.
Tune in and start your journey to transformation and resilience!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 124
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Yoga for Chronic Pain with Kathy White
In this week’s episode of The Pain Changer, I chat with Kathy White, a yoga teacher who has developed a program to help people with joint pain.
Kathy and I chatted about her journey that led her to y…
Sleep Hygiene and Pain Reprocessing Therapy with Annie Miller
In this week’s episode of The Pain Changer, I chat with Annie Miller, a psychotherapist and founder of the DC Metro Sleep and Psychotherapy center.
Annie and I have a great chat about what really kee…
The Power of Positivity with Leann Stickel
In this week’s episode of The Pain Changer, I chat with the genetically optimistic Leann Stickel.
Despite a diagnosis of a pretty aggressive form of multiple sclerosis in 2009, Leann continues to stay…
The Game of Ten® with Steve Barton
In this week’s episode of The Pain Changer, I chat with mindset coach and author of The Father, the Son, and the A-Ha Moment, Steve Barton, about his method of helping people make rapid mindset shift…
How Trauma Patterns impact Sleep and weight
Over the last few weeks you have heard from other experts on diet, and some self-care tips too, in order to help you start to change your experience with pain.
This week I’m tying that advice in with …
Diet and Humor with Lynne Bowman
A few weeks back, Coral Simpson joined me to talk about the importance of a diet that is for you, when you are experiencing chronic pain.
This week, we are taking a deeper dive into this arena with Ly…
Sleep and Other Pillars of Wellness for Chronic Pain with Dr. Rebecca Morrell
This week we are going further into pillars of wellness to help aid in relieving chronic pain.
Dr. Rebecca Morrell joins me to chat about her practice as a Naturopath Doctor. Dr. Morrell is a practiti…
The importance of Diet with Chronic Pain with Coral Simpson
This week we took a turn from trauma patterns to lighten things up and shift the focus to other areas you have control in which can directly impact your pain.
My good friend and fellow Cognomovement p…
Trauma Patterns…yep, I’m Including Covid-19
This week I combined a little of Episode 11, which was an introduction to trauma, with last week’s episode about patterns.
What differs, if anything, when a pattern is coming from a trauma? Most patte…
Patterns…I’m not talking plaid here
On this podcast, I’ve talked a lot about patterns…
but outside of episode 2, I didn’t really give you a deeper explanation about what a pattern is, and what changes when you look at the world through …
The Healing Power of Plants with Shannon Hernandez
Recently, there is more and more discussion around using psychedelics such as Ayahuasca to help us heal from emotional and/or physical pain.
There are many schools of thought around the use of psyched…
Functional versus Traditional Medicine with Dr Sean McCloy
In Episode 4, Disease is for Profit, I briefly touched on a functional medicine doctor versus a traditional doctor. I didn’t mention how they differ though, or when you may want to seek out a functio…
Feel it to Heal it
Life can be quite traumatic, and a lot of that will be unavoidable.
There were so many ways I could take this episode, but I wanted to keep it simple and just introduce the concept for now. In a later…
How to Use Comedy as a Life Skill with Melanie Curtis
As someone who has experienced a significant amount of pain in her life, I know how hard it can be to find something to make you smile, let alone laugh.
Laughter is a free tool that we all have availa…
How to Avoid the Pain Journey
If you’re anything like me…you probably think you have time to change what you’re doing to allow more self-care, more rest, and more wellness.
The only way to know if you’re right…is to start today, b…
Katie’s Journey
Everything I mentioned today…that’s my journey with chronic pain.
There’s so much more to it too, so many more details and nuances both to the areas that helped relieve my pain, as well as areas that …
A Peak Into the Journey out of Pain
Looking back, it would have been nice if someone had told me what to look for as I was healing and my body was feeling better.
The last thing to change with the experience of chronic pain is the physi…
Emotions…What a Pain!
There is a direct link between emotions and physical pain.
When you try to justify your trauma or pain and you don’t allow yourself to express those emotions, they will get stuck in your body. Underst…
Pain: It’s all in your head!
Pain is very real…and it’s also all in your head!
Your brain changes when you are in chronic pain. The good news is that you can heal some of those changes, as well as creating a massive shift in your…
What it Means: Disease is for Profit
If you live in the US, then you live in a country where disease is for profit.
This is not to fault doctors, I do feel doctors are good people who took an honorable oath to help people heal. Regardles…