
Season 4
Episodes
S4 E32 - The Vertigo and Anxiety that Brought Jonah to His Knees (and helped him to Wake Up)
When Jonah Primo, host of the in-app podcast Work in Progress on the WAKING UP app contacted us, Lisa and I were elated. We are long time fans of WAKING UP and its founder, neuroscientist Sam Harris, and we were...
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S4 E31 - JournalSpeak for Panic Attacks and Advice for the Journey with Bri
Bri really went through it. Her myriad TMS symptoms cascaded into panic attacks so severe that she had to put her entire life on hold (including her marriage), take her kids, and move in with her mother to be taken...
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S4 E30 - JournalSpeak for Migraines and Persistent Headaches with Manon
The way I found Manon (and she found me!) is nothing short of amazing. After suffering with persistent headaches for weeks on end, Manon was at a breaking point. Although she was relieved that the expensive brain scan...
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S4 E29 - A JournalSpeak Deep Dive with Lisa & Nicole
Each month, Lisa and I run a Boot Camp for our BreakAwake members. We jump onto our private online community and ask, "What is everybody interested in learning more about?" And they weigh in. We take everyone’s...
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S4 E 28 - Tinnitus is Curable! (So is Vertigo and Vestibular Migraine) with Dr. Yo
Dr. Yonit Arthur is an audiologist who is helping people climb out of their chronic tinnitus, vestibular migraine, vertigo, and other related conditions by sharing a message that you have come to know well: NOTHING IS...
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S4 E27 - All Over Musculoskeletal Pain, Post-Viral Infection Symptoms, and SO MUCH MORE with Scotty
Scotty's symptom list is so long I'm not sure I can remember it all to include here, but let's give it a try: back, neck, foot, leg, arm, wrist pain, "tennis elbow," pelvic and groin pain, anxiety, panic, depression,...
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S4 E 26 - Upper Back Pain and Bladder Issues: Good Thing, Bad Thing: Who Knows?
When symptoms move through me, the first place I want to discuss it is here on this podcast. This week I have had some pain, and my JournalSpeak revealed some interesting patterns in my life that it may be time to...
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S4 E 25 - CFS, Vestibular Migraine, POTS and much more with Louise
One day, seemingly out of nowhere, Louise began to feel unwell in her body. An inner uneasiness gave way to tremors and crushing fatigue, and her life devolved into living in her bed. For over eight years, bed bound,...
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S4 E24 - Is Your Shame Serving You?
Sometimes I have a free hour or two, and my favorite activity is to put in my AirPods, listen to a podcast, and walk. It feels so free and renewing, and sometimes it's where I come up with my best ideas for this...
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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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