{"id":149812,"date":"2025-11-20T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149812"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:54:17","slug":"the-words-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149812","title":{"rendered":"The Words Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-11.53.20.png?resize=922%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-11.53.20.png?resize=922%2C327&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-11.53.20.png?resize=768%2C272&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-11.53.20.png?resize=920%2C326&amp;ssl=1 920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-20-at-11.53.20.png?w=1056&amp;ssl=1 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/062Wkjypgpg3Kt3NYejnTl\">The Words Matter <\/a>Podcast brings you insights, reflections and conversations focused on the latest evidence, theory, philosophy and practice of communication-focused healthcare.<br \/>Find out about the more tacit, &#8216;softer&#8217; and personal side of clinical practice such as the role of philosophy, beliefs, behaviours, developing therapeutic relationships or the purposeful use of language with people experiencing pain from expert academics, clinicians and researchers from across the world and spanning the musculoskeletal disciplines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Words Matter Podcast brings you insights, reflections and conversations focused on the latest evidence, theory, philosophy and practice of communication-focused healthcare.Find out about the more tacit, &#8216;softer&#8217; and personal side of clinical practice such as the role of philosophy, beliefs, behaviours, developing therapeutic relationships or the purposeful use of language with people experiencing pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3657],"class_list":["post-149812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":99416,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=99416","url_meta":{"origin":149812,"position":0},"title":"Be humble \u2014 and other lessons from the philosophy of water","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"02\/03\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Be humble \u2014 and other lessons from the philosophy of\u00a0waterHow do we find fulfillment in a world that\u2019s constantly changing? 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