Tuesday Mar 05, 2024

110. Asking for Help is Okay | Dr. June Ashley

Dr. June Ashley, Licensed Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the Ellie Mental Health Clinic in the Denver Tech Center and military veteran joins Dr. Andrew Fix to talk about the bio-psycho-social aspects of chronic pain and trauma-based injury, and approaching wellness from a more well-rounded holistic point of view. By expanding on the connection between emotions, mental health and physical symptoms, Dr. Ashley helps clients to understand not only their choice of treatments and approaches, but how they can gain perspective on the role their pain plays in their lives.

Clients can feel left out of their recovery process when they continue to experience “unseen” pain that is disproportionate to their physical injury or even continues beyond their physical healing. Dr. Fix and Dr. Ashley discuss the need to shift away from considering wellness as merely an absence of injury or illness. They discuss the emotional components of chronic pain, how the two inform each other in tandem, and the importance of a mental health practice to prevent emotions from being stored in the body as pain.

Join The Code for a discussion that goes beyond body mechanics to uncover all the components to the pain we feel. Dr. Ashley provides some strategies for tuning into our own body cues and advice for those still hesitant about seeking mental health treatment to make a start.

Quotes

• “More personalized experience is what clients and patients may feel like they’re not experiencing. So, at the same time that they feel like they’re adjusting to changes because they didn’t have a choice in the situation, now they’re feeling like they’re not having enough choices or not getting to talk about choices.” (12:28 | Dr. June Ashley)

• “The more boxes I’ve checked and things I’ve tried on the medical side of things, the more I’ve become accepting and understanding that there is a huge psycho-social piece of this and it’s not just a mechanical, musculo-skeletal problem. There’s more to it than just that.” (20:15 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

• “I don’t know that many of us are taught very well to not be afraid of specific emotions and to really let that be something that we ride the wave of it, trying to figure out what piece of wisdom it’s trying to give us. So, we keep pushing it away and pushing it away to where even just those routine emotions that we have can become stuck in our nervous system in some way.” (25:08 | Dr. June Ashley)

• “There’s so much promise in self-compassion approaches.” (38:44 | Dr. June Ashley)

Links

Connect with Dr. June Ashley, PhD:

Website: https://elliementalhealth.com/locations/denver-tech-center-co/

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