Eddy Lindenstein
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Mind-body recovery, spoken from the messy middle.
The Mind and Fitness Podcast follows Eddie Linenstein through TMS recovery ideas, personal stress, injuries, family moments, and conversations with people working through chronic symptoms. It is loose, practical, and unusually willing to admit doubt while still returning to the possibility of feeling safe in the body.
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The Mind and Fitness Podcast treats chronic pain recovery as something lived in real time, not as a neat lesson delivered from a distance. Eddie Linenstein is the named host, and the show often carries his day-to-day life directly into the subject matter. A fever after Japan matters. So does a birthday, a Mariners opener, a daughter’s softball injury, a difficult race route, a car recording in Bellingham, or an old conversation with a child over ice cream. Those details are not just filler; they are the way the show gets to fear, grief, anger, body trust, and the ongoing work of recovery. The core vocabulary comes from TMS and mind-body healing. The tone stays informal. Episodes return to pain flares, doubt, JournalSpeak, visualization, anger work, coaching, and the challenge of believing the body is safe when symptoms feel convincing. Some installments are solo reflections built around a book, a checklist, a memory, or a recovery tool. Others bring in people such as Skylar Whitman, Trish, or revisited conversations from earlier years. The conversation episodes tend to make room for long explanations and personal context. The solo episodes can be rambling in a useful way. They show the process of thinking through an idea rather than presenting only the polished conclusion. Music, lifting, running, family, illness, and work stress all become practical examples. An episode about rap and anger can turn into a distinction between expressing anger outwardly and actually experiencing it internally. A discussion of JournalSpeak can come from a hard personal season rather than an abstract writing prompt. The show is not clinically detached, though it frequently touches clinical-adjacent ideas and named methods. It is closer to a recovery notebook with guests, sponsors, old clips, and honest course corrections. Its best fit is a listener who already senses that pain, stress, fear, and conditioning may be connected, but still needs grounded companionship through the skeptical parts. The show’s strength is its refusal to make healing sound frictionless.
Made for: For people exploring TMS, chronic pain recovery, JournalSpeak, emotional processing, and the fear that can linger after symptoms flare. It especially suits listeners who prefer candid personal examples over polished wellness advice.
What sets it apart: The show connects recovery concepts to ordinary, specific life: garage gyms, family injuries, old episodes, music, races, illness, and hard seasons. Its looseness makes the mind-body material feel tested rather than packaged.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Eddie Lindenstein makes competing mind-body accounts of chronic pain clearer by asking guests where their explanations and recovery methods differ.
The Mind and Fitness Podcast keeps returning to a difficult question: how fear, stress, shame, and emotional history may shape chronic pain. Host Eddie Lindenstein works through that question in conversational interviews, drawing on physicians, therapists, and people whose own…
One doctor's 'degenerative' becomes another's 'normal wear and tear' when you listen closely.
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A practical checklist for the moments TMS certainty gives way to doubt.
Steve Ozanich's Healing Checklist comes across as a practical guide for the moments when TMS certainty gives way to doubt. It keeps returning to the same useful questions: whether recovery can be imagined, whether the mind needs a clear target, and whether the book's ideas…
A careful case for sharing mind-body ideas without pushing someone who is not ready to hear them.
The hard part of mind-body recovery can come after the personal breakthrough: finding a way to talk about it with someone who is not ready to hear it.
A focused look at how attention can intensify pain, grounded in a soccer injury and a child's clear objection.
Attention sits at the center of this episode, both as the topic and as the tension. Eddie Lindenstein works through the idea that repeated pain-checking can turn a protective signal into something louder and harder to escape.
A plainspoken look at how perfectionism and people pleasing can become pressure the body carries.
Perfectionism and people pleasing get a grounded, bodily reading in this single-episode review. The host follows Dr. Sarno's view of chronic pain to link the pressure to be "the goodest" with fear of falling short in creative work, sales, sport, and ordinary obligations.
A grounded look at confidence, pacing, and graded exposure in the return from injury.
Recovery comes through as a practical negotiation between caution and commitment, with Eddie Lindenstein weighing pacing against graded exposure and asking how someone can move before perfect certainty shows up.
A clear, physical take on graded exposure and how repetition can help the brain relearn safety.
The episode turns graded exposure into something more physical and usable, setting it beside lifting, softball, and chronic pain rather than leaving it in clinical shorthand.
A calm, useful look at pain, fear, and why clean scans do not always end the story.
Paulina's conversation with Eddie Lindenstein stays with the uneasy gap between real pain and a body that can look normal on paper. It traces how fear, suggestion, and incidental imaging findings can feed each other, which gives the episode real value for people who have spent…
A plainspoken family conversation about anxiety, ADHD, and seeing a kid more clearly.
Zoe and Eddie settle into the space between anxiety, something else, and the way treatment can sharpen what is really going on. The best stretches come when they slow down around medication, school behavior, and the shift from one label to another, especially as the conversation…
Spiritual balance meets ordinary life.
Warm wellness for body, voice, and spirit.
Body image care beyond the scale.
He opens by marking the date and the long run of weekly publishing behind the show.
The host Eddie Lindenstein introduces episode 400 of the Mind & Fitness Podcast, reflecting on its nine-year run and sporadic recent episodes while thanking long-time patrons.
March 18, 2026 opens casually.
Host Eddie Linenstein shares a harrowing personal story of nearly choking to death at home, detailing the frantic moments, his wife's life-saving intervention, and the profound emotional and psychological aftermath.
The host shares a personal story of overcoming persistent foot pain by aggressively using mind-body techniques, telling the pain to 'fuck off.' He details his failed attempts with different running shoes and medical checks before applying a psychological approach inspired by Dr.
The host explores Dr.
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The host uses a personal story about coaching his daughter's softball team to explain the concept of graded exposure for chronic pain recovery.
Eddie Lindenstein shares his weekly workout routine while discussing how journal speak has helped him process the emotional stress of his dog's sudden illness.
Eddie Lindenstein revisits his 2021 interview with Sarah Dakhili, a Brisbane-based mental health social worker and TMS psychotherapist, because he has recently reconnected with her for another conversation.
Eddie Linenstein revisits his 2021 conversation with Barb Mastroianni on episode 200 of The Mind and Fitness Podcast, centered on the phrase “it is what it is” and less fear around pain.
The Mind and Fitness Podcast brings back Dr.
Eddie asks how to help someone consider a mind-body approach to pain, using Karen’s question about TMS and the idea that some people may not be ready to hear it.
Eddie Lindenstein opens The Mind and Fitness Podcast 392 by answering a listener prompt about graded exposure, chronic pain, OCD, and the idea of getting back to activity after months or years of avoidance.
Eddie Lindenstein interviews psychotherapist Ellen Ronca, who was introduced through a prior guest, Skylar Whitford, and they center the conversation on shame, mind-body symptoms, and self-empathy.
This starts as a sleeper-episode riff.
Michael is back for a TEDx debrief.
Eddie Lindenstein opens The Mind and Fitness Podcast episode 389, “The More We Think About Things,” with a 2017 doctor quote that “the less that we think about these things, the quicker they'll go away.” He ties that idea to an Instagram DM about obsessively correcting posture after a TMS dip and to his own memories of neck, upper back, knee, elbow, shoulder, and biceps pain in 2016–2017.
Eddie Lindenstein opens with a relaxed, personal check-in before turning toward listeners who are new, returning, or just looking for a clearer way to think about pain.
Eddie opens on Halloween day with the sound of landscaping and barking dogs in the background, then brings Ellen Ronca back for a closer look at the shame-overwhelm cycle.
The show revisits an older conversation with Dr.
Eddie Lindenstein welcomes the returning guest back for a conversation about what happens when a life drifts out of alignment and the strain that can follow.
Eddie sits down with Zoe for a long, careful follow-up conversation.
April 16 starts rough.
The host discusses personal updates including his upcoming 40th birthday, a trip to Japan, the start of baseball season, and his daughter Audrey's fibula injury that prevents her from playing softball.
This episode explores how rap music, particularly angry rap, can help people experience and channel their anger in a healthy way as part of TMS (The Mind-Body Syndrome) work, distinguishing between outward expression and internal experience of anger.
This episode revisits a 2019 recording of the host Eddie interviewing his four-year-old daughter Zoe about her pre-K graduation, featuring a casual and playful family conversation.
The host shares how journal speak, a method developed by Nicole Sachs, has been a crucial coping tool during a difficult personal and professional period.
Host interviews Skylar Whitman about her chronic pain recovery journey, touching on TMS and rheumatoid arthritis.
The host shares a personal running experience and promotes a sponsor who helps with TMS-related pain.
The host introduces a commentary on a past episode about sales, but the primary content is a sponsor segment promoting TMS coaching for chronic pain relief.
The host introduces a rerun episode featuring a guest who helps people overcome chronic pain using TMS principles.
The host introduces the concept of intensity and promotes a coaching service for overcoming chronic pain through TMS work.
Host introduces a travel hiatus and then presents part two of an interview with therapist Sean Hershey discussing childhood attunement and TMS.
Host Eddie Lindenstein introduces an interview with LCSW Sean Hershey about using psychological and emotional modalities to heal chronic pain.
Host Eddie Lindenstein introduces a re-air of an interview with Dr.
Eddie interviews mind-body practitioner Laura Haraka about somatics, breath work, and self-compassion, challenging the idea that pain must be managed.
An interview with Dr.
The host promotes a stress and TMS coach before introducing an interview with Dr.
The host promotes a stress and TMS coach, then discusses the cold weather and personal feelings.
The episode begins with a promotional segment for a TMS coach, then transitions into a personal anecdote about traveling to Australia.
The host promotes a stress detox program and introduces a recovery story from a listener who healed from TMS.
Host Eddie Lindenstein interviews psychotherapist Jennifer Huggins about outcome independence and managing new symptoms in TMS recovery.
Host Eddie Lindenstein promotes a TMS coach and introduces an interview with a boxer about overcoming fear and doubt.
The host promotes a TMS coach and introduces an interview with a professional beach volleyball player, blending mental health and fitness topics.
The host promotes a stress and TMS coach, then shares personal plans for a football game, but the episode's core is about healing chronic pain.
The host promotes a TMS coach and thanks patrons, focusing on overcoming pain and stress through mind-body healing.
The host interviews Nicole Sacks about her new book and TMS recovery, discussing overcoming pain and fear.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode continues a discussion on pelvic health, exploring mind-body connections and healing approaches for chronic conditions like TMS and fibromyalgia.
This episode features a conversation with psychotherapist Liz Wallenstein about the causes of pain, focusing on mind-body connections and healing approaches.
This episode features Michael Hodge discussing men's pelvic health, with insights potentially valuable for all listeners.