Latest / Giving Pain Purpose with Lyndsay Soprano / The Exhaustion of Pain with Lyndsay Soprano
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- 0:03Speaker 1: This is Your Pain Game podcast where we talk about
- 0:06Speaker 1: the game of living in and with chronic pain and trauma,
- 0:10Speaker 1: getting to the heart of how to heal. I am
- 0:12Speaker 1: your host, Lindsay Soprano. On the show, I plan on
- 0:18Speaker 1: discussing with doctors, chronic pain patients, holistic practitioners, loved ones,
- 0:23Speaker 1: and anybody that is interested in having their voice.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Heard in the chronic pain and trauma world that we
- 0:28Speaker 2: live in.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Oh my god, you not want to do this right now,
- 0:41Speaker 3: but at the same time I do. I have been
- 0:43Speaker 3: sitting here rocking out to all kinds of different music,
- 0:47Speaker 3: and then I.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Zoned in on an Offspring.
- 0:50Speaker 3: And if you're in my age bracket, you're a big
- 0:53Speaker 3: fan of Offspring, And if you're not, then you can
- 0:54Speaker 3: just tune me off and never speak to me again.
- 0:57Speaker 3: But I've been baireing, like totally rocking out to Offspring
- 1:00Speaker 3: to put this episode together, and I'm not one hundred
- 1:03Speaker 3: percent sure why, but I guess we're gonna find out.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Right my feet, I'm literally sitting here doing this episode.
- 1:10Speaker 3: My feet are in this little bag that I actually
- 1:14Speaker 3: get from Rooted In, which is one of the affiliates
- 1:16Speaker 3: that we work with Plug Shameless plug for sure. But anyways,
- 1:21Speaker 3: I get this bag and I sit with my feet
- 1:23Speaker 3: in it, and it's got ice ice baby, So I'm
- 1:26Speaker 3: having a physical ice bucket challenge going on with my
- 1:30Speaker 3: feet right now under my desk, and I am unsure
- 1:34Speaker 3: who is winning outside of maybe a little THHC as well,
- 1:38Speaker 3: because I have been living in so much pain and
- 1:43Speaker 3: you know I don't take anything for it, so here
- 1:46Speaker 3: I am. I'm beat down, guys, I am absolutely exhausted.
- 1:51Speaker 3: So I started to like do this episode in the
- 1:54Speaker 3: dark because I like to turn the lights out because.
- 1:57Speaker 2: It helps me. I don't know why it helps you,
- 1:59Speaker 2: but it does.
- 2:00Speaker 3: And then the lighting was so bad and I looked
- 2:03Speaker 3: really ugly, so I turned the lights back on, and
- 2:07Speaker 3: I'm not happy about it. So I'm gonna leverage this
- 2:09Speaker 3: epic studio lighting that we have here so I don't
- 2:12Speaker 3: look like a total weirdo. Anyways, I was just telling
- 2:15Speaker 3: my sweetie that I don't want to do this. I
- 2:17Speaker 3: don't want to do this episode, this episode, this one
- 2:20Speaker 3: right now that you're listening to.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I'm unfocused, I'm tired.
- 2:25Speaker 3: I have one of my dogs behind me in the
- 2:27Speaker 3: corner snacking on something. I'm lonely. I'm lonely in this
- 2:34Speaker 3: I'm lonely in this pain. I'm lonely in the exhaustion
- 2:42Speaker 3: that comes from it. And I don't want to sound
- 2:45Speaker 3: like a broken record though, right, you know, like I
- 2:47Speaker 3: get on the show, I'm like yeah, yeah, bah blah.
- 2:50Speaker 3: I don't want you guys to think that I talk
- 2:51Speaker 3: about the same thing every day, expecting different results. But
- 2:55Speaker 3: I do expect different results. Ooh, that is not ad lindsay.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I do expect different results than sitting here with my
- 3:05Speaker 3: feet and moving my little toutsies around in my ice
- 3:07Speaker 3: cold bath here.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I expect different results from this.
- 3:10Speaker 3: I expect different results from us as a community together
- 3:14Speaker 3: to try to give our pain more purpose.
- 3:17Speaker 2: So we're gonna do this today, right.
- 3:20Speaker 3: So one of the things that I struggle with my
- 3:23Speaker 3: sweetie in particular is I'm like, I don't want to
- 3:25Speaker 3: do this, and he always says, well, then don't. And
- 3:29Speaker 3: that's a powerful statement for me because it can go
- 3:32Speaker 3: both ways, right. It can mean well, fuck, yeah, don't
- 3:36Speaker 3: do that, don't do that thing, don't do that thing
- 3:42Speaker 3: that somebody is asking to do or begging you to do,
- 3:45Speaker 3: or guilting you to do, or shaming you into doing that.
- 3:49Speaker 3: You're like, hell, no, go with your gut. Then there
- 3:53Speaker 3: is then don't, which is like for me, it's kind
- 3:59Speaker 3: of like a it's a challenge, right, it's a big
- 4:04Speaker 3: challenge room.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Then don't do it all right, walk away? Oh well
- 4:07Speaker 2: then you better believe it, buddy, I am going to
- 4:09Speaker 2: do it.
- 4:10Speaker 3: So take a beat on the then don't thing right,
- 4:14Speaker 3: So then don't do what doesn't serve you. But this
- 4:18Speaker 3: show here serves me. So as I opened up with
- 4:22Speaker 3: I don't want to do this, I didn't today. I
- 4:24Speaker 3: did not want to do this. I just want to
- 4:28Speaker 3: be in my pjs like sucking my thumb, not talk. Honestly,
- 4:32Speaker 3: I don't even want to talk to anybody or do
- 4:35Speaker 3: anything or or reply to to to text messages. I
- 4:41Speaker 3: don't want to do anything because I'm trying to keep
- 4:44Speaker 3: it together. Guys here, the past couple of months have
- 4:47Speaker 3: been brutal in the pain department. So much life stuff
- 4:50Speaker 3: has been going on that's simply just not calmed down.
- 4:53Speaker 3: And a lot of this is going to be first
- 4:56Speaker 3: world problems that I'm complaining about, and I apologize that
- 4:59Speaker 3: I'm doing this, but all of this has turned into
- 5:06Speaker 3: these first world problems, I've turned into a lot of
- 5:08Speaker 3: stress and all this that's going on. So a little
- 5:11Speaker 3: bit of perspective here my Sweden. I bought our house
- 5:15Speaker 3: in December of twenty twenty three. As I'm recording this
- 5:19Speaker 3: right now, it is June of twenty twenty five, just
- 5:21Speaker 3: a year and a half of construction.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Have we lived here the whole time? No, no, we
- 5:25Speaker 2: have not.
- 5:27Speaker 3: But since we started construction, it's been a daily back
- 5:30Speaker 3: and forth and back and forth, going from where we
- 5:31Speaker 3: lived and going back up to la going back to
- 5:34Speaker 3: northern Orange County. I mean, it's just been like so insane.
- 5:40Speaker 3: And now that we live here full time, our dog,
- 5:42Speaker 3: my little dog, is barking in the background because he's
- 5:45Speaker 3: super pissed off about this as well. I know, Tommy,
- 5:49Speaker 3: I feel you, bro. But now that we live here
- 5:52Speaker 3: full time, it's incredibly hectic. So all over the place,
- 5:56Speaker 3: the entire house is covered in this like.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Like this freaking moon dust. It's everywhere.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Like I went to go iron and I pulled out
- 6:08Speaker 3: an iron ore iron out of where I house it
- 6:11Speaker 3: and it was covered in dust and I used it
- 6:14Speaker 3: like two days prior. So it's not like it's been
- 6:17Speaker 3: sitting there. So anyways, my whole entire life is covered
- 6:20Speaker 3: in dust. And for somebody like me who has a
- 6:26Speaker 3: massive amount of OCD and as a project manager by trade,
- 6:30Speaker 3: so like everything I do is like seeing things to fermition,
- 6:33Speaker 3: like to fruition, seeing things come full circle, everything like, oh,
- 6:38Speaker 3: I see all, I see the light at the end
- 6:40Speaker 3: of the tunnel. I am still waiting for the light
- 6:42Speaker 3: at the end of the tunnel. I am still looking
- 6:44Speaker 3: for my little chotchkey from my fake store in Hollywood
- 6:49Speaker 3: with my moon dust.
- 6:54Speaker 2: But all of this dust is just making me sick.
- 6:58Speaker 3: It's making me sick. It's making me sick from a
- 7:01Speaker 3: like mental health perspective, I'm coughing. My allergies are out
- 7:06Speaker 3: of control? Is it what's going on right now? Like
- 7:09Speaker 3: in my areas a bunch of stuff blooming. I feel
- 7:12Speaker 3: like it's probably moondust that's happening around here, but everything
- 7:17Speaker 3: is covered.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm sick and tired of contractors everywhere.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I'm sick and tired of like random butts sitting on
- 7:25Speaker 3: my bathroom.
- 7:25Speaker 2: So I'm I'm cleaning every bathroom every single day of
- 7:29Speaker 2: my life.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Dear Lord, do you know how much TP these people use,
- 7:36Speaker 3: and also like where is everything?
- 7:38Speaker 2: I'm living in a.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Construction hell and a moving house, So everything's in boxes,
- 7:44Speaker 3: Everything's covered in plastic. Every I don't need. The labels
- 7:47Speaker 3: don't even mean anything on boxes anymore, because that room
- 7:51Speaker 3: is not the same room from the house that it
- 7:53Speaker 3: went from from the last place. I am in O, C. D. L.
- 7:59Speaker 3: And when you live in pain, all of this is heightened.
- 8:04Speaker 3: So every conversation that I have about the house, or
- 8:11Speaker 3: I'm about a decision that we have to make about
- 8:14Speaker 3: a silly thing like a sink or a faucet, again
- 8:17Speaker 3: first world problems. All of it is adding and adding
- 8:21Speaker 3: and adding and adding and adding to this list that
- 8:24Speaker 3: I feel will never have an end. And so with
- 8:28Speaker 3: that comes this unbelievable amount of stress, an unbelievable amount
- 8:32Speaker 3: of emotion that I feel like I can't even explain,
- 8:35Speaker 3: Like I just want to like scream at people do
- 8:39Speaker 3: not understand how hard it is to not a peace
- 8:43Speaker 3: in your living environment. I feel like a lot of
- 8:46Speaker 3: you understand this. If you have more than one child,
- 8:50Speaker 3: you have hecticity in your life. I have one, he's
- 8:53Speaker 3: seventy three years old, and then I have two Weenie dogs. God,
- 9:00Speaker 3: I don't know why you guys aren't filling my email
- 9:03Speaker 3: up with how are you doing, young lady?
- 9:07Speaker 2: How are you hanging in there? Oh?
- 9:11Speaker 3: My god, guys, it's just absolutely nuts. And you know,
- 9:13Speaker 3: all of that stuff, all the OCB, all of the
- 9:17Speaker 3: non cleanliness that's going on around here is making my
- 9:22Speaker 3: body feel like it's under attack. And I'm kind of
- 9:25Speaker 3: an emotional puddle about it, and I'm not really sure
- 9:29Speaker 3: how to handle that puddle. I'm like, just feel like
- 9:31Speaker 3: I'm putting a mop into the ocean and just trying
- 9:35Speaker 3: to mop the ocean out.
- 9:37Speaker 2: But my body's under attack.
- 9:39Speaker 3: And with that means that exhaustion, means that sadness, means
- 9:44Speaker 3: that heaviness. Oh speaking about heaviness. Okay, So this morning
- 9:48Speaker 3: I wake up from my knees down. It felt like
- 9:53Speaker 3: somebody had poured concrete into every nerve, every muscle, every fiber,
- 10:01Speaker 3: everything from my knees down actually really started for my
- 10:04Speaker 3: hips done, but the most pain started when it hit
- 10:06Speaker 3: my knees and it just felt like the concrete has
- 10:11Speaker 3: been in there all day and it hasn't yet set
- 10:14Speaker 3: to dry, but it's just getting there. Those are my feet,
- 10:20Speaker 3: that's what's been happening today amongst all the other bologna
- 10:23Speaker 3: that happens all the time, right, And this is how
- 10:25Speaker 3: I live, This is how so many of us and
- 10:28Speaker 3: pain live. We live in a place where we cannot
- 10:33Speaker 3: describe the sensation. They tell me to use the word
- 10:37Speaker 3: sensation for pain, where the sensation is happening in our body.
- 10:41Speaker 3: How is it possible that my brain is making me
- 10:45Speaker 3: feel this pain right now? And the way that it's
- 10:48Speaker 3: making that pain feel, I mean, it's just it's like, well,
- 10:51Speaker 3: it's mind boggling, it's out of control. And so all
- 10:56Speaker 3: of you that are listening that sleep next to somebody
- 11:01Speaker 3: that is groaning and moaning and crying at night because
- 11:04Speaker 3: they are in so much pain, we got you. And
- 11:08Speaker 3: for those of you that are doing all the moaning
- 11:10Speaker 3: and crying and sobbing and pain all night, we've got you,
- 11:14Speaker 3: because that's me and my sweetie every night. This is
- 11:18Speaker 3: the place that we live in. And we have this
- 11:21Speaker 3: amazing decision that we have to make every day. Right
- 11:25Speaker 3: to go back to the cement thing that I have
- 11:28Speaker 3: about my legs this morning, we have a decision to
- 11:32Speaker 3: make in regards to that, to let that cement dry
- 11:35Speaker 3: or to like keep that truck ooh, you know that
- 11:39Speaker 3: truck that moves in front of you. It's keeping the
- 11:41Speaker 3: concrete moving. It's still the same matter. Keep that concrete
- 11:46Speaker 3: moving before we turn into juzzleballs, before we turn into
- 11:49Speaker 3: sclurre derma, which turns your body into like stone. I
- 11:53Speaker 3: have a buddy of mine, in fact, it's my sweetiest
- 11:56Speaker 3: best friend who asks slurer derma turns yourself into like
- 11:59Speaker 3: biblical stone.
- 12:00Speaker 2: It's nuts.
- 12:02Speaker 3: So instead of turning ourselves into stone, let's just keep
- 12:06Speaker 3: on moving, okay, because that's the only thing that we
- 12:10Speaker 3: can do, or else we're just gonna end up being
- 12:13Speaker 3: those people that you know nobody talks about on shows,
- 12:16Speaker 3: that nobody writes books about that, your family doesn't talk
- 12:20Speaker 3: about it there at your funeral. Be the person that
- 12:24Speaker 3: you want to be, no matter what kind of cement
- 12:27Speaker 3: is running through your body, right because I am literally
- 12:32Speaker 3: trying to squeeze in recording these episodes through the amount
- 12:37Speaker 3: of concrete that's going through my body so that I
- 12:40Speaker 3: can be here for you guys today, And I am
- 12:43Speaker 3: not guilting you into listening. I'm just saying, man, I'm here,
- 12:50Speaker 3: you know, I'm constantly here. I'm not the chick that's
- 12:53Speaker 3: going to show up late. I'm not the chick that's
- 12:55Speaker 3: going to like, whoops, I forgot. I don't want to
- 12:58Speaker 3: be that chick, and I don't want you to be
- 13:02Speaker 3: that chick either. I don't want you to be your disease.
- 13:06Speaker 3: I don't want you to be whatever diagnosis that's been
- 13:09Speaker 3: given to you.
- 13:10Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no, will you be you?
- 13:13Speaker 3: You just have whatever they told you you have. You
- 13:18Speaker 3: just have it, you not are it right? So today
- 13:23Speaker 3: there are a couple of things that I did. I
- 13:26Speaker 3: called a polo. This is a new thing I might
- 13:29Speaker 3: be bringing into my show. Polo. I also like to
- 13:33Speaker 3: call my work husband. We met through friends of ours,
- 13:36Speaker 3: and within like twenty three seconds of meeting this dude,
- 13:39Speaker 3: he was like my bro.
- 13:41Speaker 2: He and his gorgeous bride. We're at her wedding. So yeah,
- 13:44Speaker 2: I called a polo.
- 13:46Speaker 3: So whenever I have something that I have a question about,
- 13:48Speaker 3: I say Marco and then here replies Polo, which is
- 13:52Speaker 3: his name. One of the things that I had to
- 13:55Speaker 3: do in regards to all this construction, because he's the
- 13:58Speaker 3: lead dude on all of our instruction, is to put
- 14:01Speaker 3: up a little bit better boundaries with the construction workers
- 14:05Speaker 3: and the time of when they arrive, because of course
- 14:07Speaker 3: they want to be here at the buck kraka dawn. Well,
- 14:10Speaker 3: we can't do that, and it's okay for us to
- 14:13Speaker 3: say no, to say beat it, to say, you know what,
- 14:17Speaker 3: I've got to make this work for my life and
- 14:19Speaker 3: my lifestyle, for my health. I was not doing that.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Does it mean that the project's going to take a
- 14:25Speaker 3: little longer. Maybe maybe it's not, because now I've got
- 14:29Speaker 3: these mofos focused on We've got three days to do
- 14:33Speaker 3: this stuff instead of fat see polo, that's what we're doing.
- 14:37Speaker 3: We're calling a polo. But it's also honoring and respecting
- 14:40Speaker 3: the fact that like, hey, a disabled human being lives
- 14:44Speaker 3: here in this house and lives in pain, and not
- 14:46Speaker 3: every morning is the same. So having those conversations with
- 14:49Speaker 3: people in your life, no matter who they are, and
- 14:53Speaker 3: establish some good solid boundaries is super important. But another
- 14:59Speaker 3: thing that I do is I do these positive affirmations.
- 15:01Speaker 3: And I know it sounds lame, and a lot of
- 15:03Speaker 3: you that do know that it doesn't sound lame, But
- 15:06Speaker 3: oh my god, I am on fifty five days straight
- 15:09Speaker 3: of affirmations on my phone and I love it.
- 15:13Speaker 2: Do it.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Figure out a way to do it. It is the
- 15:17Speaker 3: easiest thing you can do. It sounds stupid and it
- 15:20Speaker 3: feels stupid, like for the first three days, and then
- 15:22Speaker 3: after that, you guys just like jam it out. There's
- 15:26Speaker 3: another thing that I'd done that I really love, which
- 15:29Speaker 3: is batching. So for me, when it comes to pain,
- 15:33Speaker 3: I really struggle with being able to focus right. So,
- 15:36Speaker 3: like putting this episode together, when I said in the beginning,
- 15:39Speaker 3: I don't want to do this, a lot of the
- 15:40Speaker 3: reason why was because I was really struggling to focus.
- 15:43Speaker 2: It was like fifty minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes.
- 15:46Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out what I wanted to talk to
- 15:48Speaker 3: you guys about, and my outline wasn't working for me.
- 15:51Speaker 3: So I kept redoing it and kept redoing it. So
- 15:54Speaker 3: one of the things that I end up doing is
- 15:55Speaker 3: I end up doing this thing called batching, where I'm
- 15:58Speaker 3: just like, I'm able to sit there, I tune out
- 16:01Speaker 3: all the world, and I tell everybody that that's what
- 16:03Speaker 3: I'm doing. So you turn off your phone, you turn
- 16:05Speaker 3: off your kids. Oh my god, if only you guys
- 16:07Speaker 3: could turn off your kids, turn off your dogs. Nobody
- 16:10Speaker 3: wants to turn off the dogs unless they're barking. But
- 16:12Speaker 3: you know what I mean, turn off all the distractions
- 16:15Speaker 3: and batch get that stuff done. And then you don't
- 16:18Speaker 3: feel like, oh man, I only did ten minutes here
- 16:20Speaker 3: and I only got twenty minutes here. Do you never
- 16:22Speaker 3: feel really like you were accomplished during the day. And
- 16:24Speaker 3: I know moms feel that way. I know for me
- 16:27Speaker 3: in chronic pain, I certainly feel that way. And then
- 16:31Speaker 3: for me, man, oh man, do I in for a sana?
- 16:34Speaker 2: I read?
- 16:36Speaker 3: I also gave myself a gift of a day spa, right,
- 16:40Speaker 3: so I know this is not a first world thing.
- 16:43Speaker 3: Is everybody You can go pay for a twenty dollars
- 16:47Speaker 3: massage to do something for yourself. It doesn't even have
- 16:50Speaker 3: to be a massage. You can meet anything. It can
- 16:53Speaker 3: go strolling through Barnes and Nobles and just running your
- 16:55Speaker 3: fingers along the bindings of the books. It can be
- 17:00Speaker 3: anything you want. That day spot to be, that infrared
- 17:04Speaker 3: son to be, that reading to be, can be any
- 17:07Speaker 3: of that.
- 17:07Speaker 2: You just have to give it to yourself.
- 17:09Speaker 3: And if you say that you don't have thirty minutes
- 17:11Speaker 3: to do it, twenty minutes to do it. Ten minutes
- 17:14Speaker 3: to do it, you're lying to yourself, and you still
- 17:17Speaker 3: need to keep listening to the show, and of course
- 17:21Speaker 3: always sob I mean, if you're feeling like you need
- 17:23Speaker 3: to cry, let it all out. But the last thing
- 17:26Speaker 3: that I have been doing, and you guys can take
- 17:31Speaker 3: this literally or figuratively, I swim every morning and now
- 17:35Speaker 3: I've been swimming in the evenings as well. In fact,
- 17:37Speaker 3: I'm going to do this after I did this episode
- 17:39Speaker 3: that I did not want to do. It's more structured
- 17:42Speaker 3: than I normally do episodes, which is why I'm not
- 17:45Speaker 3: liking it. But I'm still doing it. But I go
- 17:47Speaker 3: out and I swim. It is the only place where
- 17:51Speaker 3: my body does not feel heavy.
- 17:55Speaker 2: It feels at peace. It feels the light, and especially
- 17:59Speaker 2: in the evening.
- 18:00Speaker 3: Tonight, the bubbles come out of my breath that I'm
- 18:04Speaker 3: holding in.
- 18:06Speaker 2: And then they're colored.
- 18:07Speaker 3: With the lights in my in my pool, which just
- 18:10Speaker 3: makes it all the more glorious. And it's the only
- 18:13Speaker 3: place that I pray. We're all struggling. Obviously I am,
- 18:19Speaker 3: but the only thing that I know that I have
- 18:22Speaker 3: in this life is you. So thank you for showing
- 18:24Speaker 3: up for me here right now today to listen to
- 18:27Speaker 3: this because this was a hard episode for me to do,
- 18:30Speaker 3: only because I didn't want to do it.
- 18:32Speaker 2: I just didn't. I'm pooped.
- 18:35Speaker 3: It's not my best work. I'm okay, and that's okay
- 18:38Speaker 3: for you too. So before we jam out of here,
- 18:41Speaker 3: I have a new thing called the Pain Game. Pain bites.
- 18:45Speaker 3: Actually I'm not even doing my whole spiel, that's how
- 18:48Speaker 3: tired I am. Go to the Instagram easy link in
- 18:52Speaker 3: our bio tells you everything that you need to do
- 18:55Speaker 3: and speak out loud.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Talk about your pain.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Talk to me about what's going on with you, and
- 19:00Speaker 3: I'm happy to talk about it on our pain baits
- 19:03Speaker 3: on Fridays. So you guys are exclusively invited to share
- 19:07Speaker 3: this under construction, absolutely exhausted vip pain journey together.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Let's get to the heart.
- 19:16Speaker 3: Of how to heal with you by my side. Please
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- 19:30Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to my little VIPs.
- 19:32Speaker 3: Catch you on the other side of a nap that
- 19:35Speaker 3: your host most definitely Mats