Our special guest today, Charmaine Thane, is a fellow chronic illness warrior and meditation teacher.  Like me, she is a hernia mesh survivor and has worked on raising awareness about the negative impacts of surgical approaches using hernia mesh.  In 2021, after she suffered a heart event, and redirected her attention to the heart care world. 

Her focus on alternative or natural therapies has led her down many paths and has led her deeply into meditation, which has helped her enormously.  She plans to return to mediation teaching with some movement training as she continues working on her own recovery.  She has recently written a series of

She has over 25 years of meditation practice and enjoys Qigong, yoga, singing/chanting mantra, art-painting and drawing as well as movement practices such as waling, swimming, weights, etc.  She has extensively studied holistic meditation, Emotional freedom technique, various forms of meditation and yoga and Reiki, aromatherapy. 

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Show Notes

4:30 – hernia mesh and disability

9:40 – hernia mesh removal

11:00 – mental health challenge

14:13 – alternative practices

16:50 – coronary artery vasospasms

17:40 – electrolytes for nervous system

18:40 – x39 patches

21:00 – diet and exercise

21:50 – DNS (neuro retraining)  and breathing for POTS

22:40 – covid and ozone therapy

24:25 – blood draws and POTS

25:00 – lifestyle changes

26:30 – dysautonomia symptoms, severe fatigue

30:45 – cardiac psychology unit

32:00 – meditation and visualizations

34:00 – breathing practice

41:25 – contact information