Episode 30·September 2, 2025

You're Not Broken: Why Chronic Pain Starts in the Mind

Tyzen sits with Michael Hodge to explore how much chronic pain and pelvic dysfunction is generated by the nervous system rather than structural damage. They walk through Michael's root cause way: relax, reveal, release, plus somatic tracking and outcome independence.

It's not that your body hates you. The subconscious mind does what it has to do to send you a message if you're not listening to what's really happening beneath the surface.Michael Hodge

You're Not Broken: Why Chronic Pain Starts in the Mind, on The Ascension Podcast

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Show notes.

Show Notes

Michael’s own five-year crucible with pelvic floor dysfunction and the stigma men carry around it.
Why so many chronic symptoms have no disease pathology and are nervous-system generated.
The root cause way unpacked: relax the nervous system, reveal what’s beneath, release by no longer holding on.
A live somatic tracking demonstration with Tyzen, plus outcome independence and the symptom imperative.

Key Takeaways

Pain often signals an unfelt emotion, not damage. The work is to feel the message rather than mask the symptom.
Practice relax, reveal, release. Regulate the nervous system first, then be with the sensation without resistance, then let go.
Do somatic tracking with outcome independence. You are not trying to fix anything, you are coming into non-resistant contact with what is present.

Meet the guest · Soul Fam

Michael Hodge

Founder · Transform Men's Pelvic Health · Mind-Body Healing · Root Cause Coach

Michael Hodge lived through five years of crippling pelvic and urinary pain before finding his way out through the nervous system. Today he runs Transform Men's Pelvic Health, helping men resolve chronic pelvic, urinary, and sexual issues at their root, treating the mind-body link as the real terrain of healing.

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