What Over 200 Episodes Has Taught Us About How to Heal from CFS/ME, Lyme, Fibromyalgia &so Much More
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2023
- In this special episode, I'm joined by Chazmith Newton, host of the Our Power Is Within podcast. Chazmith and I both started our podcasts around the same time and have done over 100 episodes each, and so we decided to come together and share the key insights, lessons and takeaways that we've gained from speaking to the many guests that have been on our shows. There are many synergies to our stories and how our podcasts came about, so it was great to come together and have this conversation.
In this episode, we discuss each of our situations regarding our own health and how our podcasts first came about, and our shared experience surrounding how hearing success stories of people recovering can be both inspirational but also triggering, and how we've had to navigate that in doing our podcasts. We also discuss the many modalities that our guests have had recovered with, including somatic tracking, brain retraining, breathwork, etc. We discuss the importance of having faith in divine timing, cultivating a belief that you will recover, learning to trust your body again, seeking support, and trying to find gratitude within your journey to health.
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I used to tell my tms trained by Dr sarno "I'm the healthiest person who always doesn't feel well." I used to just want 6 straight days, 6 straight weeks of feeling good. I was a patient of Dr sarno's for 25 years. When I found Nicole Sachs Dec 2019, all the pieces of the puzzle clicked. I feel mostly well. When I don't feel great, it doesn't last long, I am no longer scared of it, I now know it's my body speaking to me
I loved Phils comments about belief. It just really gives me hope when I feel stuck. I need to renew that hope that complete healing is inevitable as we do the work. Loved this episode. Thanks guys!
Thanks,this was such a helpful discussion,especially the parts on hope.I've been ill for 20 years now and after a really hard time in my personal life i relapsed badly and lost all hope.Fortnately i found yours and Raelan Agle's recovery stories a while back and there has been an undeniable thread of common themes through all of them.Long story short,I designed a simple programme for myself and am seeing small shifts. My partner who has Lyme disease is well on the road to recovery too.
Hello! I love this podcast so much! I’m curious, what kind of testing did you get done in Germany and what kind of clinic was it?
Please link the Australian coffee ! American here 😅
I’ve been in the same boat with missing my life w/ alcohol & exercise. But I battled chronic migraine for a decade so eventually mourned the alcohol/social part of my life before getting CFS. Now if I drink (very rarely) various symptoms come up & insomnia so reminds me it’s not worth it. Getting my exercise back slowly as I finally am enjoying brain retraining after resisting for so long 😊
Wow Phil your story is really similar to mine, including the Lyme diagnosis. One thing I really noticed was when you were talking about not being able to access emotions and just "feeling numb". I was exactly the same and it turned out I had early childhood trauma I didn't know anything about, had absolutely no clue and couldn't remember. This had put my body/nervous system in a chronic "freeze" response, completely seperate from my logical thinking mind. I've been doing Somatic Experiencing and have had a big chunk of energy unlock which, after being ill for 15 years is amazing! Maybe that's something you could look at too?
Don't want to send anyone down a rabbit hole looking into SE, but I do believe that many who don't recover through brain retraining alone could have nervous system dysregulation that can be healed that way
love this... thank you! i've recently worked with mushrooms which has certainly helped but im definitely up for somatic stuff. can you explain specifically what you've been doing and even who you're working with? thank you!!
Yes of course, it's a complex story but I'll try to be brief! I've been doing ANS Rewire for a couple of years but read about a year ago that a deeper level of healing is needed for some with traumatic histories, on a nervous system level or more specifically around the "freeze" response. I didn't even know I was one of them until I learned more about what trauma really is (from Irene Lyon free resources and others). It can be developmental, from having mentally ill parents, even from difficult births etc. completely seperate from the thinking mind (in fact being in the head a lot, overthinking can be one sign of unresolved trauma). So I went for some EMDR for this, having grown up with a mentally ill parent. But a few sessions in I began having these huge shaking experiences, like being absolutely terrified but with no thoughts attached. It really feels like massive bodily survival responses, stored in the nervous system since I was a Baby (so for 36 years) coming up and out. After that I felt quite frozen, almost dissociated and I began to do Somatic experiencing with a local therapist: very quickly my energy seemed to return and the payback from overdoing it just dissappeared... I genuinely couldn't believe it after 15+ years illness!
So basically Somatic experiencing/movement works directly with these survival responses that are stored in the body and nervous system. It really feels like slowly unfreezing the nervous system, that I didn't know was frozen because its been like that all my life.