In this episode, I'm joined by Rachael Elizabeth, also known as "Ribeye Rach" on Instagram. This podcast episode has been a long-time coming - we’ve been trying to arrange it for almost a year now! And interestingly, back when Rachael first found my podcast and we started speaking, she was in a totally different place with her recovery compared to now, so maybe that was the universe at work! 

Rachael was always an avid rock climber and athlete, but in 2016 her health rapidly deteriorated, and she was diagnosed with dysautonomia, ehlers-danlos syndrome, chair malformation, craniocervical instability, tethered cord syndrome, intracranial hypertension, gastroparesis, adrenal insufficiency, chronic Lyme disease and much more. 

After various treatments and surgeries and no improvement, Rachael was still in “a living hell”, and she hit her lowest point in 2020 when she was essentially bed-bound, having seizures and in a wheelchair. 

Starting a Lyme disease treatment protocol brought her out of her bed bound phase, but it was when she found alternative ways of healing that her healing accelerated, changing her life.  Through brain retraining, DNRS and living by a carnivore diet, she is now able to live her life again. 

In this conversation, Rachael tells her amazing story and we discuss brain retraining, the power of timing, the distinction between wanting to heal and being ready to heal, the importance of belief in your recovery, and how different treatments work for different people.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Rachael's childhood and upbringing 
1:56 - When Rachael's health started deteriorating, and the many conditions and syndromes she was diagnosed with
12:53 - How Rachael started considering looking at alternative methods of healing and nervous system regulation
15:11 - Rachael’s introduction to the carnivore diet  
16:24 Starting prolotherapy treatments and finding DNRS brain retraining, which was a turning point in Rachael’s recovery
17:40 Phil’s experience of the carnivore diet 
19:51 The importance of timing in recovery, and how Rachael had come across DNRS 5 years before she started it
21:50 - The timeline of Rachael’s recovery 
25:32 - Rachael’s progression, from wheelchair to walking, over the past two years 
27.45 - How everything is linked to the nervous system, and how there are so many different ways to regulate the nervous system, and how it looks different for everyone 
30:11 - How when you’ve had so much failure before, you co etc expect that each thing you try won’t work
31.00 - Phil and Rachael’s experience of putting so much pressure on each treatment to work and the desperation to find something to help them heal
32:34 - The importance of believing you’ll recover and surrounding yourself with success stories
39:01 - Where Rachael is at now with her healing
42:25 - How it can sometimes be hard to share your recovery when in the midst of it
43:43 - Finding the gratitude in your journey, and how Rachael now appreciates the little things in life
45:34 - Rachael’s advice to others going through the same right now  

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