{"id":2787,"date":"2026-08-10T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/how-to-make-pain-your-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:25:38","slug":"how-to-make-pain-your-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/how-to-make-pain-your-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make pain your best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Managing pain stimuli is like learning to eat ginger.&#8221; Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on how to make pain your best friend. <\/p>\n<p>Lying awake with a throbbing headache after a stressful day. Your neck is so tense that you can barely turn it. Stress literally manifests in your body and causes pain. Conversely, pain also increases your stress levels. In this episode, stress expert Elke Van Hoof explores the complex relationship between stress and pain. How does this vicious cycle develop, and more importantly: how do you break it?     <\/p>\n<p>Elke explains that pain and emotion utilize the same regions of the brain. This is why, for instance, rejection can sometimes cause a literal pang in your chest. While the pain of a broken ankle is intense, we often overlook the surrounding stress. Back problems, headaches, insomnia\u2014they all share a strong link with stress. You will also learn about the four ingredients that soothe stimulus-sensitive bodies and receive practical tools to manage tension and pain.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Managing pain stimuli is like learning to eat ginger.&#8221; Stress &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}