Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

Your Brain Can Heal Chronic Pain: My Journey

22 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment of her YouTube video, Joanne Smith reflects on her experience with chronic pain, emphasizing that her body remained physically capable even while she felt pain. She concludes that the injury had healed, and the persistent pain was generated by her brain through expectations, beliefs, and a mindset that recovery was impossible. She stresses that healing is a gradual process—"baby steps"—and ends with a hopeful wish for the audience’s week.

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I mean, I think my biggest evidence that my body was never really at fault was the fact that it could physically, even with pain, it could still do tough challenges and journeys. And I never saw that as a big piece of evidence that I didn't have a permanent injury. Because the injury had healed. It seems really obvious now that I didn't have a lifelong injury. My brain just kept generating the pain over and over again based on the past and based on my expectation and my belief, my mindset of believing that it could never get better. So it doesn't happen overnight, it's baby steps. But I hope you all have a brilliant week. Bye.