healing insights

Dan buglio's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Let's not spend an inordinate amount of time with exercises and processes and daily routines to fix ourselves. No, let's be aware of the things that our brain might be perceiving as dangerous, like emotions. instead of pushing them away and resisting,  just feel them. Oh, okay. Do that over and over again. Your brain will eventually realize emotions are no longer dangerous. Therefore, we don't need to protect from them your physical body. If you're constantly walking around like this all scared and tight and guarded, your brain constantly going to be interpreting danger. So if you can learn to let the tension out and breathe a little more comfortably over time, the brain will get the idea that, wow, look at her. Not she's pretty comfortable and relaxed. Safety the mental side of it. If you're not taking your own thoughts so seriously all the time and not getting caught up in the panic thoughts and the worrisome thoughts and the catastrophic thinking, the brain has got no choice but to say, well, she's not paying attention to that. I guess she's okay. And then it gets down to the mindset. Are you freaking out less you're making progress

Yaffa Finlett 's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Your body is a temple  so make your  body clean  for God to come, you got to keep your temple, your body as clean and pure as possible diet wise. Invite God in. align with the divine especially when you are in pain. the antidote to depression is gratitude, staying in gratitude and having faith. I had to bless everything I was doing. gratitude was my mindset. nothing is for-granted if you make the dishes say God, thank you. I have dishes to clean. every mundane thing is a blessing to do. And I think the best thing to overcome depression is to remain in this grateful state and to don't take anything for granted. 

Samantha Klassen's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

acceptance is the key to healing.  allow the situation, accept it for what it is, because the more that we resist it, the more it wants to take control. If you don't like something. The more you push it away, push it away. It's going to attract more and harder at you, right? So definitely do that and love it. And nobody likes when I say that. Because why would you love your pain? But it's different. It changes your chemistry and your brain when you're just like, okay, well, I love you, and I know you have to be here. Probably because I have a lot of pain psychologically somewhere in my body, there's trapped emotion. So you're welcome to be here. I love you.

Tracy Tatcher's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

my advice is to start cleaning up your lifestyle as hard as that sounds when you don’t have energy and are sick and just want to take the easy way. I tell people to look at labels, look at the chemicals that their immune systems have to try to deal with. I say you’ll need to fill your cells with glorious colorful raw foods that your body can use to heal itself, give it something to work with. And it’s important for people to understand that their family members and friends might have a hard time with your choices, they may not agree and not trust that you know yourself best, I say continue on, it’s your life not theirs. It takes some experimenting to find your footing to health, but it’s a very empowering feeling knowing you can do this.

Laura Haraka's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

There is a cure for chronic pain.  There is hope out there.  The most important thing to heal from chronic pain is joy.  I healed from a chronic pain condition and so can you.  The ways to reverse this is education and knowledge of why and how this is happening.  The 2nd way is to Dial down the fear.  Fear causes more pain that creates a vicious cycle of pain.  If people understand they can get better - that these nerve pathways are not trying to harm them - they can control them and stop being afraid of the symptoms..  The third is the emotional piece.  Showing your brain you're not afraid to feel your emotions through somatics, journaling and just feeling.  The brain perceives these emotions as dangerous and sends pain as a protection. The brain doesn't know the difference between a physical and emotional threat.  A threat can trigger a pain response in the brain.   The 4th is lifestyle changes - decreasing your stress level, meditation, mindfulness.  Doing all of this with confidence, compassion, and persistence. .  

Ann Miller's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

 find a program that works for you and stick with it. research the different programs that are out there and find the one that really seems to fit your personality and commit  to it and work it. People with pain  have tried a lot of different programs, but they'll only have tried it for like a month or so. if it doesn't work for them they jump  and go to another program. they end up chasing like they chase physical modalities to healwe're used to that. We go to this doctor and then that doctor and this specialist, and then we try these herbs and then we try this chiropractor and this chasing inflames us further and ignites our cycle of pain or  and fear even more. that is exactly what we do not want. This chasing is a distraction from your threats and fears or your emotions  sogo ahead and, and analyze the different programs and then pick one that seems like it would be well suited for your personality. but then stick with it. It may take several months till your symptoms will vanish

Ray Lelievre's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Begin dealing with youself in 3 ways. Body Mind and Spirit. My Spirit has been and will always be the source of my strength. My Spirit must be the power to overcome my well-intentioned sub-conscious mind and thereby heal my body. That's it!! I became willing to accept a "Higher Power" and turn my life over to it. that is the 2nd and 3rd step of recovery. the first step is admitting I was powerless over my life and could not manage it alone.    

Valerie Hickman's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My tip to fellow sufferers is: trust your mind and body. believe your autonomic nervous system is acting  to protect you from your emotions because it is sensing them as dangerous. The issue here is reaching a state of total belief. personally, it took me time to get there to really believe that nothing is wrong in my body and that the brain is creating the pain and the symptoms. My other tip to fellow sufferers is listen as much as you can to testimonial stories. for me it was huge because I would say to myself, if they could do it, I can do it too. My body is no different.  Another modality that was very helpful for me was somatic tracking by Dr. Alan Gordon      

Mathew Embrey's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

there is only only person that can help you out of this mess and it is the person in the mirror. the little choices and little decisions  you make the - really count. baby steps  not marathon my advice is to take micro steps to become the better version of yourself. this understanding that you are your own salvation is very liberating and it is very empowering. you claim your power back. 

sara halevi's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Commit to your self-care!

Jeanni Kulwin's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

the wisdom is in our body. if you're like me dealing with health issues, you're likely living in your head because you don't want to be in your body. We don't want to hang out in our body. So the big takeaway is to learn how to be grounded again and how to feel safe in your body. When you can feel safe in your body, everything shifts.  it's like, okay, I feel something in my stomach. I feel my chest. But I'm safe.  The mantra is:  body first, mind second. And so we can really learn.  if we've had trauma in the past, it's not safe for many of us to feel safe in our body. So it is a process. It's learning. But that is the goal to re-learn how to ground and be safe.   

Dr. Jeff Axelbank's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Sometimes we have trauma in our past that we prefer not to think about. And the pain is a very convenient way to not have to think about our traumatic histories or people we're angry at or people we have conflict about. resume normal activities as soon as you can I like what Sano says. resume normal activities as soon as you can. That doesn't mean do it when you're in your worst pain. I think the idea is when you're finding. So, for instance, I actually have a patient now who is a runner, and I've been sort of encouraging him to run, but he has some chronic pain issue in his back and his leg. But I don't encourage him to run when his pain is at its worst. I encourage him to run when he noticed, like if he wakes up in the morning and he says, oh, my pain is not so bad this morning. That's a time to get out and run. That's a time to resume normal activities, because I think what he will then find is that if he runs that that is going to not make it worse and he's going to find it actually makes it better. And that will start to provide evidence for him that it's not a physically caused problem. If he tries to run when it's at its worst, then that may end up just being more torture for him. ask quality questions often I will say to people, if we weren't talking about this pain, what would we be talking about if we were to put this aside? What are the emotional issues? What's going on in your life? What are the memories that this is a distraction from? And once we start to talk about that, often the symptoms just go away because you don't need them anymore. So this is a very good question. This will expose the unconscious of the subconscious thinking and emotions. Yeah. Or I put it a little differen: It allows it to percolate up. It creates a space for things, memories, thoughts, feelings to come up.   

Paul Berick's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Daily symptoms were pressure on my chest, loud wheezing & rattling in the lungs, frequent coughing (often so hard to the point of sweating), and exacerbated allergy symptoms such as itchy skin, running nose, and post nasal drip.  The capacity of my lungs deteriorated with time. they gave me 2 years to live. i believed them and was depressed.   All gone.

Laura Shofroth's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

I have witnessed  people healing from obesity, inflammation, and chronic illnesses from acid reflux to cancer.  It can be done. First, is your belief system in yourself.  You must believe that your body can heal naturally.  Second, is life applications of healing foods and nurturing the body the way we are supposed to. Thirdly, becoming conscious of our thoughts, patterns and inner trauma that needs healing also.  It’s the whole picture, the whole body.

Luke Palmer 's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

consistency is the key: it doesn't happen overnight. Be patient and consistent. People expect to heal at once with a new modality they found. It's unrealistic. consistency and perserverence make the difference  final words for anyone suffering with TSW. I believe strongly that willpower is not found, but created. You can get through, you may no be able to use your body..but you can use your mind. Remember that.