Resources

Below are books, websites, an app, podcasts, and a course to help guide your healing. These resources are inexpensive or free and, for some patients, are all they need for mind-body healing of chronic pain and neuroplastic symptoms. If you would like further patient-specific guidance, please make an appointment with Dr. Hollander.

Books

  • Unlearn Your Pain Workbook

    Unlearn Your Pain by leading Mind-Body practitioner & researcher Dr. Howard Schubiner. A comprehensive workbook which explains the brain science responsible for chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), and journaling for emotional awareness & expression processing of symptoms. The first 2 chapters are free on the website. Buy the workbook in English or Spanish for about $25-$30 from the website or from an online retailer. You will have access to the online pain & symptom reprocessing meditations after purchase. See also Unlearn Your Anxiety & Depression.

  • The Way Out book

    The Way Out by Alan Gordon, LCSW & Alon Ziv. This is a humorous and easy read by Gordon, a pain psychologist who recovered from his own chronic back pain, and Ziv, a neuroscientist. You’ll understand the science behind chronic pain and how to get started on your own with Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). Paperback from online retailer is about $20 + shipping.

Websites

  • Dr. Howard Schubiner's Mind Body Medicine website logo

    Leading Mind-Body practitioner & researcher Dr. Howard Schubiner’s website UnlearnYourPain.com has many free videos that explore how the mind and body work together to create chronic pain & medically unexplained symptoms and how you can heal.

  • Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms website logo

    The Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptomsis a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded by physicians and psychologists. The ATNS teaches research-based treatment to relieve chronic pain and illness not caused by disease or injury but rather by learned neural pathways in the brain. The website has lots of good free information.

App

  • Curable app photo

    Work with Dr. Hollander and she can provide you 6 weeks free of the Curable App which uses neuroplastic brain science to guide your self-healing of chronic pain & medically unexplained persistent symptoms. The app incorporates Mind-Body Medicine techniques into easily accessible exercises to overcome fear of symptoms, retrain body’s symptom response, and address symptom triggers.

    68% of Curable users experience physical pain relief within the first 30 days.

    82% report an improvement in their quality of life within the first 30 days.

Podcasts

  • The Story Behind the Symptoms Podcast Image

    David Clarke, MD looks for clues in the guest’s present and past to unravel the mystery behind their illness. In The Story Behind the Symptoms, these unexplained symptoms stem from neuroplastic processes—pathways in the brain and nervous system that are learned in response to stress, trauma, and adversity, often starting in childhood. But when these patterns are uncovered and understood, this knowledge becomes healing without the need for invasive procedures or long-term medical treatment.

  • Like Mind Like Body Podcast Image

    In the Like Mind Like Body podcast, leaders in the field of mind-body science interview researchers, authors, and experts about research-backed techniques to relieve chronic pain & other chronic symptoms.

Course

  • Reign of Pain Coursera course image

    The Reign of Pain Coursera course was created by Mind-Body expert Dr. Howard Schubiner. This is a free 7-module comprehensive course on understanding and addressing chronic pain and associated conditions. Learning at your own pace, you'll learn to differentiate between structural and neural circuit-related pain, and to discover emerging therapies like Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET). It also explores the application of this model to various conditions beyond pain.