Book · 1999 · Health & Fitness
Healing Back Pain
The Mind-Body Connection
#234 of 16,793 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- people
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- episodes
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- critical mentions
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The majority of back pain is muscle spasm which originates in the mind.
Andrew Weil · The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 2018 Listen at 11:45 What they say about it
- Friends with back pain“multiple friends who are plagued by low back pain”2
The best things said about it
I have multiple friends who 100% credit that book with solving long-standing back pain that never occurred.
Tim Ferriss The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2026 It's a book that has healed so many, my back pain included. You read it and you learn that I don't have any back pain.
Nikki Glaser This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · May 2021 I have multiple friends who are plagued by low back pain. In some cases they couldn't walk several blocks.
Tim Ferriss The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2026 All of his work was really based on the premise that our physical conditions are psychosomatic.
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Healing Back Pain by Dr. John E. Sarno is a self-help book that asserts physical ailments like chronic back pain largely stem from emotional distress and the mind-body connection. Dr. Mike recommended it on Modern Wisdom as a resource for addressing back pain through mental health. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Dr. Andrew Weil explained that Sarno's core belief was that back pain is typically a muscle spasm generated by stress and anxiety, Tom Papa shared that a comedian friend used the book to cure debilitating back pain, and Ethan Nadelmann also suggested reading it for psychosomatic pain. Bill Burr mentioned the text on Monday Morning Podcast while discussing how identifying the root cause of his anxiety helped it dissipate. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Tim Ferriss responded to a listener by noting that multiple friends credited Sarno's work with resolving long-standing low back pain. Finally, Nicole Sachs spoke about Healing Back Pain on The Jordan Harbinger Show while describing her initial encounter with his theories during graduate school.
Every mention
Andrew Weil sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain and his main belief which I totally agre… 2
Recommended
“sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain and his main belief which I totally agree with is that the majority of back pain is muscle spasm which originates in the mind”
Discussed
“sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain”
Dr Mike one is called The Divided mind another one is called healing back pain 1
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“one is called The Divided mind another one is called healing back pain”
Ethan Nadelmann and I'll say read sno's book you know on back pain right or healing back pain 1
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“and I'll say read sno's book you know on back pain right or healing back pain”
Tom Papa Greg rogel you know the comedian Greg roel he tells me he had really debil debilitating lower back pain and… 1
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“Greg rogel you know the comedian Greg roel he tells me he had really debil debilitating lower back pain and he read S B book yeah I read s he's like just read it and I got into this big fight with him and this and uh and gnome who owns the comedy seller he's calling him a crack”
Tim Ferriss Number one, people had recommended this book, I think it was called [Healing Back Pain]. I may be getting t… 3
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“what are your thoughts on the book healing back pain by john sarno? So I know this book very well and I will say to kick off that I have multiple friends who are plagued by low back pain In some cases they couldn't walk several blocks”
Discussed
“Thanks for coming to my TED talk on sarno And again, I have multiple friends who 100% credit that book with Solving long-standing back pain that never occurred”
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“Number one, people had recommended this book, I think it was called [Healing Back Pain]. I may be getting the title slightly wrong, could be Fixing Low Back Pain, but it's by Dr. Sarno, John Sarno.”
Gabrielle Bernstein In that chapter, I really reference the work of Dr. John Sarno, who wrote Healing Back Pain, he wrote The M… 2
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“In that chapter, I really reference the work of Dr. John Sarno, who wrote Healing Back Pain, he wrote The Mind Body Prescription, and all of his work was really based on the premise that our physical conditions are psychosomatic.”
Discussed
“In that chapter, I reference the work of Dr. John Sarno, who wrote Healing Back Pain and The Mind-Body Prescription.”
Bill Burr So the second I found out that you get anxiety, the anxiety went away because it was identified because wha… 1
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“So the second I found out that you get anxiety, the anxiety went away because it was identified because what was it's like that book back healing back pain.”
Joe Rogan did we ever talk about um Dr John sarno's healing back pain 1
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“did we ever talk about um Dr John sarno's healing back pain”
Nicole Sachs healing back pain which is like the way when he first laid out all his theories. 1
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“healing back pain which is like the way when he first laid out all his theories.”
Nikki Glaser You read the back pain book Sarno It's all about that like i will read it sometime but but i'm just saying… 1
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“You read the back pain book Sarno It's all about that like i will read it sometime but but i'm just saying i probably won't read it no you won't but let me just say it's a book that has healed so many my back pain included You read it and you learn that i don't have any back pain”
Rich Roll And he said to me, "Have you read the John Sarno book, Healing Back Pain?" 1
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“And he said to me, "Have you read the John Sarno book, Healing Back Pain?"”
Zach Braff So, it's it's by this guy, I believe it's Paul Sarno and it's I can't remember the title, but it's somethin… 1
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“So, it's it's by this guy, I believe it's Paul Sarno and it's I can't remember the title, but it's something like uh you know, Healing Back Pain.”
