
Eric Shoemaker
Dr. Eric Shoemaker is a triple board-certified, fellowship-trained interventional spine and musculoskeletal physiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor at Rocky Vista University, practicing in Denver (Mile High Sports & Rehabilitation Medicine).
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Aug 24, 2026
How Do Injury, Pain, and Faith Shape Our Identity with Dr. Eric Shoemaker
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Eric ShoemakerGUEST
Well, yeah, I mean, it's, uh, my whole writing series really looks at those parallels between things that happen at a clinical, physiologic level, scientific level, and seeing things that are aligned with s- Scripture and, and with, uh, an embodied walk with God.

Eric ShoemakerGUEST
It's this notion that there's a couple different ways that we respond to, to challenges.

Eric ShoemakerGUEST
Um, people are mostly aware of the kind of fight or flight response, what we call the sympathetic nervous system, the sympathetic autonomic response, which governs a lot of, of processes in our body.

Eric ShoemakerGUEST
Um, but there's subsets to that, what was often called the threat response versus the, the challenge response.

Eric ShoemakerGUEST
And the, uh, the, the inherent driver between these two things, and in a very real physiologic way is, is, is a belief or, or, or the acceptance, uh, that, uh, the-- either on the threat side, that the resources that are available to you are outweighed by the demands of the situation, um, versus the, the, the, uh, vice versa, where the-- in the, in the challenge response, the, um, your resources outweigh the demands.
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15:47Steve CussHOST
How do you stop or can you stop that automated threat response from happening when you don't get that false need?