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S4 E 23 - The Difference Between Rumination and Excavation
Lisa and I found ourselves talking about a frequently asked question in our communities: Won’t thinking about my dark stuff make me worse? This is a typical fear of many people endeavoring TMS work. I have such...
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S4 E 22 - The Role of Community in the "Messy Middle" with Lisa and Jamie
A lot of people in our communities talk about the difficulty of the “messy middle” - when you are no longer asleep and unaware that your symptoms are TMS, you are doing the work and carrying on, but you’re also...
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S4 E 21 - Male Pelvic Pain and Social Anxiety with Adam
It's so easy to get caught up in the "physical" when you are stricken with chronic pain out of nowhere. This is exactly what happened to Adam. Otherwise healthy for his whole life, Adam began having severe pelvic and...
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S4 E 20- Insomnia and Benzodiazepine Withdrawal with Lauren
S4 E 19 - Chronic Hives, Chronic Anxiety, and the Stories That HEAL
Sometimes it's helpful to hear a specific story about a specific symptom to feel secure that this work will help you. I have been hearing a lot about hives and anxiety lately, and a good friend had a transformative...
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S4 E 18 - Friendship, Connection, OMEGA, and Recovery from Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue
Lindsay and Catherine arrived at our OMEGA retreat last summer as total strangers. They left as friends, and have become soul sisters. They carry a message of unlikely friendship (over 30 years apart in age),...
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S4 E17 - From DRY EYE, No Make-Up, & No Contacts to Total Wellness with Agnes
Agnes' first symptom was years of back pain after a horseback riding incident. It was then that she stumbled upon this podcast, but she was not yet ready to embrace the paradigm of MindBody medicine. Then came the...
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S4 E16 - The Brain Science Behind Why We “Flare”
When we hear about "flares" in the chronic pain community, they are decidedly viewed as bad. They are feared, judged, dreaded. But what if we redefined flare in the same way we are redefining what it means to be...
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S4 E15 - Chronic Pelvic Pain, Foot Pain, Anxiety, and IBS with Alex
Alex spent years having no idea that her chronic anxiety, depression, pelvic pain, foot pain, bloating, and more were connected and all coming from the same place - Nervous System dysregulation. So many of us walk the...
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S4 E14 - IBS, Bladder, Hip, Wrist, Oh My! A Story of Healing with Tanja
So often we hear the story of, "a lifetime of TMS," and Tanja is no exception. As the symptom imperative bounced around her body, she went from doctor to doctor, desperate for a solution. When, finally, she found...
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S4 E13 - Family Alcoholism, TMS, and the Healing Power of Community with Kat
What a wonderful conversation I had with Kat Gemson, a lifelong TMSer and beloved admin of our Nicole Sachs' Support Circle community on Facebook. Kat grew up an only child (like me) and her mother struggled with...
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S4 E12 No One is Coming to Save You (said with love)
There are few concepts that move your healing forward more powerfully than radical acceptance, yet it is so often confusing and hard to understand. Today I am inspired to highlight a story from my life that (however...
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