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Crushing Doubt is a podcast with nationally known pain psychologist Dr. Dan Ratner, that looks at all aspects of symptoms, how to understand them, and how to address them so that you can live pain free. After years of mind body suffering, Dr. Ratner has developed his own, in depth treatment, to cure what ails you, and you can’t find it anywhere but here!
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Dan and Nicole Ratner are a power couple in the association world leading organizations to achieve record growth in membership and plan highly efficient events over their 36 combined years in the industry. After climbing to the highest levels of leadership in multiple organizations, they both made the unusual choice to step off the corporate ladder and put family first. Throughout this podcast, you’ll hear how they help non-profit and for-profit businesses move from incremental growth to exp ...
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Link to sign up https://anchor.fm/drdanratner Hi, everyone. I wanted to update you all on where to find the latest content for the Crushing Daily Podcast. We have shifted over to a paid subscription on Spotify of $5.99 a month. There is already new video content on YouTube, but the audio version of that content will be arriving on Spotify in the ne…
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, Edgar, Eric, and Dr. Dan welcome Rob Davon-Butler to the show and the brothers discuss the many facets of fatherhood. Rob shares a concern that, in an effort to correct all of the things about which he suffered as a child, he may have taken things too far and not prepared his kids for the reality of the world. D…
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In this interview, I sit down with Rita LaBarbera and Tamara Gurin, two former CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) sufferers who are now both devoting a big part of their time and work to bringing hope to people with similar ailments. Rita and Tamara talk about the plight of patients who do not have just one symptom and how the literature focuses…
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In this episode of our How To series, I do a deeper dive into the nuts and bolts of how to expose doubts as illogical and hard to continue believing once looked at in the right way. In specific, I help the viewer consider laying out two theories next to one another so that we can see which ones hold up to scientific and logical scrutiny. Today, we …
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, the brothers are back to look at some of the most difficult to explore topics — today, toxic masculinity. Eric brings the research, as always, and we find out where the term toxic masculinity comes from in the first place (shout out to the 80s). One of the most enlightening moments comes in our exploration of ho…
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Dani and I sat down to talk about our respective mind body recoveries and journeys and we continued our bond over the power column and how important it has been to each of us. As we both note, power is something that must be addressed on a moment to moment basis, but is always available to anyone to make an adjustment in their lives that can help t…
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When trying to get better from mind body symptoms, the key is having the right information and feeling clear on what is happening in your mind that is helping you or harming you. In this episode of our How To Series, I distinguish between two types of questions — ones that come from a genuine desire to understand more and find advancement in the wo…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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I continue to connect with as many people in the world of mind body practitioners as I can, in an effort to unify our message about these important issues. I would be remiss if I did not include Dr. Bob Evans, a therapist in New Jersey who trained with Dr. Sarno and Dr. Feinblatt, as they pioneered the TMS treatments in the early days. Much to my s…
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In this episode of our How To Series, I concentrate on how to think about symptoms when the primary profile the sufferer experiences is through the lens of not being able to stop focusing on the symptoms. This video will help you make the crucial distinction between a focus on the symptoms that is driven by obsessional thinking and the same present…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, we’re back to the three amigos. We jump right into Old News, focusing on some celebrities who have been accused of thinking in narcissistic ways and discuss what makes someone an actual narcissist. Dr. Dan sheds some light on narcissism as more of a developmental issue than a built in flaw of the person, but als…
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Today’s interview features Dr. Liz Croton, a general practitioner in the United Kingdom, who has caught on to mind body treatment and incorporated it in her work. Liz has practiced as a GP for fifteen years, but it is only in the last 6 years that she has folded mind body experience into her work, after learning about it with our Crushing Doubt fri…
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Today, I got to sit down with Patty to discuss her recovery experience through her work in the seminars with me. She shares that she has engaged in decades of TMS/mind body work and has gotten certain symptoms to go away, but has struggled with others. We talked about her journey and how she decided to make the leap and take my seminar. In this vid…
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In this episode of the Mind Body Connection Series, I cover the topic of judgment and how it can impact your recovery adversely. When looking at the themes of the emotions column, it is of paramount importance that you learn to do so without judging yourself. As I now say regularly, the emotions column needs to be a ‘judgment free zone’. This video…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, the Brothers welcome Momo Rodriguez to the the show. Mom lost his mother to Covid this past year and Edgar and he bonded over having had the same thing occur to him and a very similar experience of these tragic events. We begin with Eric providing some research numbers, including the fact that men are more likel…
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In this interview with mind body coach Fred Amir, I got to enjoy a taste of Fred’s effusive spirit, logical mind, and engaged planning as we hear the tail of his recovery from 25 months of full body suffering during a bout with mind body issues. Fred shares that he did need to find the right information to begin getting better and that he did so in…
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In this testimonial, Marc R. shares how he was able to get better from his latest mind body suffering using the Crushing Doubt Podcast, alone. Marc has recognized his mind body experience many times over and is even a veteran of Sarno reading and book cures, which makes it all the more honor that he sees the added value in my system. As he discusse…
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On this episode of our How To Series, I help you consider how depression can be seen like any other mind body symptom, as long as it isn’t attached to major psychological catastrophes or medical conditions. The columns work, thankfully, can be a big help when you are feeling depressed because its application to this other kind of symptom does all o…
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This very special episode of Brothers in Arms brings on our first guest, comedian Nick Alexander. Our theme today relates to his Walking the Walk segment, as both he and Edgar lost a mutual friend to suicide one year ago — an event that turned out to be the biggest thrust of the creation of this show. We start with questions for Dr. Dan, including …
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In this Crushing Doubt interview, Adriana Bucci joins me to discuss her growing expertise as a life coach, helping her clients get free from toxic relationships, with a particular focus on narcissism. She and I cover a lot of ground, noting the similarities between the gaslighting and confusion that narcissists render in a very similar manner to wh…
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On this testimonial video, Dorisa joins me to tell her story of recovery from numerous mind body symptoms. She shares that she got better by cobbling together a number of different sources that made sense to her in certain ways and we get to hear her horrific journey through multiple symptoms that became truly crippling at various points. What beca…
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In this segment of our How To Series, I focus in on the details of one way to channel anger, as I so often say can be useful in the power column. Stemming from one of my sessions, I realized the specific power of the word determination and what it means for you. I explore how, instead of being stuck with anger and having it grow in that frustration…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, Eric has a question for Dr. Dan about the things men try to do to increase self esteem that end up backfiring. Dr. Dan shares that anything that genuinely makes you feel good about you, and aligns with who you are, will always increase your self esteem. But the doc notes that there are plenty of efforts to do th…
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In this Crushing Doubt interview, I got to sit down with Dr. Mark Lumley, the chief research partner in Dr. Howard Schubiner’s research on pain and the various practices to use to retrain the brain to get rid of it. Mark and I talk about how important it is to the scientific and logical endeavors of chronic pain and other mind body suffering that w…
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We have reached the fourth and final session of my Three Columns mind body consultation with Diane, which has been an absolute pleasure. Today, we focus on the concept of action steps and apply it to each of the three columns. The central idea of action steps in my program to alleviate mind body chronic pain and other symptoms is to see new ways of…
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In this episode of our Mind Body Connection Series, I consider how viewing mind body symptoms through a developmental lens can reduce doubt, shed light on the nature of the symptoms, and allow us to receive the communication within the symptoms more fully. This video came from my observation that many people who become less difficult over time (thr…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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Edgar, Eric, and Dr. Dan continue to find ways to talk openly about all kinds of difficult topics and to pinpoint what opens doors or closes them off. In the roundtable discussion, after some fun joking to loosen things up, the Brothers in Arms take up the conversation about vaccinations and the judgments people make about the people who make diffe…
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In this interview, we hear the fascinating story of a mind body recovery related to the circulatory system, as Irralee was able to use Wim Hof’s cold water immersion techniques and breathing exercises to stop a decades long experience of cold hands and other symptoms associated with the condition. The fact that she was able to change her thinking a…
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Today, Diane and I met for our third session of an actual consultation right here, in the moment, on the podcast. I am so appreciative that she showed the courage and generosity to engage in the actual process with me so that we can bring to all of you a direct view of how the work goes and what it looks like. In this session, we look, in depth, at…
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In this episode of our Mind Body Connection Series, I look at the simple way you can understand the speed of your process of recovery. As always, the speed of your recovery is going to be affected by the level of understanding and peace you have with each of the three columns, as well as your sense of your action steps. I review the basics of each …
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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On this episode of Brothers in Arms, Edgar, Eric, and Dr. Dan explore a topic that is rarely covered: domestic abuse against men. Edgar kicks things off by bringing in a question from a female viewer about how to leave ‘the devil’ behind, referring to her dead husband, who was physically and emotionally abusive to her. We consider how she can manag…
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On this episode of our How To Series, I share a new way of thinking about the columns work, and living in general, that can help you organize your experience between what I call the internal and external track. The key comes in recognizing that we are all taught to integrate everything into one way of operating, but this leaves us trying to deal wi…
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Today, I got to sit down with a remarkable young man, in Freddie Stevenson — a college football champion fullback who has now turned author with his book, Trials to Triumph. Freddie’s story is a remarkable one and at its center are the very parts of his personality that got him through all of the adversity. He shares his story of going from having …
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Today, I am joined, once again, by Diane, for the second session of an actual consultation right here, in the moment, on the podcast. As always, I am so appreciative of anyone willing to share their story with the rest of our community, as it takes such courage and generosity and it provides such a help to people in understanding the process in a m…
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When it comes to becoming powerful, I have good news for you — being your most powerful self actually doesn’t hurt anyone else at all. In fact, if anything, you becoming powerful can inspire someone else to become powerful. This is one of the reasons why I chose this word for the third column: there is an unlimited supply of it. What that means is …
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In this episode of Brothers in Arms, Edgar, Eric, and Dr. Dan continue to build ways to talk to each other and to show men — and women, too! — how we can talk to each other. Edgar and Eric ask Dr. Dan questions about how to approach conversation with people to get them to open up and share, even when they are reticent to do so initially. Dr. Dan sh…
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In this episode of our How To Series, I concentrate on the nuts and bolts of what to do in the power column. We begin with the information from the emotions column and doubt column that require a power column solution. Included in this is the ongoing work of emotional themes as they relate to the core narrative. I cover the way fear flows from the …
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In this interview with Dr. Harold Koplewicz, the founder and medical director of the Child Mind Institute, we get to hear about the brilliant mind of a doctor who wanted to make more of a difference to the community at large and how many wonderful developments have come from this fact. From his growing up with two Holocaust survivors as parents to …
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Today begins the first of my four session consultation series with Diane, who is already known in our Crushing Doubt community for her kind words and wisdom, as she responds to comments and encourages others in their healing, as well as sharing about her own. Diane has suffered from migraines, sciatica, and numerous other symptoms, on top of having…
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In this episode of the Mind Body Connection Series, I develop a short hand for how to think about how to operate the three columns on a day to day basis. Where other systems seem to suggest that you endlessly explore your emotional life to get to the heart of things, the three columns system offers more organization and specific nuance. The emotion…
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This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiolog…
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In the third episode of Brothers in Arms, Edgar, Eric, and Dr. Dan continue to discuss how we all can do a better job talking to each other — as men, and otherwise — but the show is also rounding into forms with new segments defining parts of the exploration. After a brief catch up with everyone, the guys finally make sure to let Dr. Dan introduce …
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On this week’s How To, I delve into the tremendous importance and power of inclusion. I begin with the concept of things that are high stakes and what it is that determines what is a high stakes experience versus not. One of my main points today is that the earlier the need in life, the more intense and important it will loom for all of your days. …
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In today’s interview, I got to sit down with Dr. Andrea Leonard-Segal, a board certified rheumatologist who not only worked collaboratively with Dr. Sarno for over twenty years, but even wrote one of the chapters in his masterpiece, The Divided Mind. Andrea is a staunch supporter of Dr. Sarno, not only in terms of the way he helped hundreds of thou…
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