I'm deep in dreaming about the future....

I'm migrating my online pain science program to a new platform. I'm going to be filling my brain wiht incredible hypnosis training this month embodying change work on topics like shame, trauma, nervous system repair, self concept and psychedelic states, and maybe even some weird stuff like past life regression and accessing relaxing trance states.

Who knows what will happening after attending Hypnothoughts Live. But I know that I haven't been very focused here. So my apologies. Even if I'm not on here creating a podcast, I am working with clients helping them create powerful embodied shifts in their wellbeing and I thought I'd just share a little bit of that with you today.

If you are curious about mindbody coaching and how we can use the mind and somatics to create less pain and more of the life you want to live, I would love to talk to you. You can find the link to my calendar at my website - www.movewithdeb.com

I share with you my recent experience of having Covid and the mindbody medicine informed methods I used to help me decrease fear and recover without lingering symptoms. I share other recovery stories and first person information about people who have recovered from lingering symptoms colloquially known as "long covid". I hope that my process is helpful for you.

If you would like to chat with me - here's a link to book a free Curiosity Call - 
https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

RESOURCES

What different people across the mindbody medicine field are discovering are the similarities between Covid symptoms and other long term chronic pain/illness symptoms and how the pain-fear-pain cycle plays into the perpetuation of symptoms after the body has recovered. So using this same approach they're seeing good responses. 

Here's some resources that I've both listened to or read directly or have been told about through my colleagues.
https://www.positivelycovid.org/
https://www.longcovidcured.com/ - this has some great recovery stories - including Paul Garner, infectious disease Dr. 
https://www.longcovidcured.com/about - this is a lovely list of various resources. I can offer people 6 weeks free of the Curable app if anyone wants to try that.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/10/long-covid-hope-recovery-symptoms - Dr. Garner's story of recovery
https://www.recoverynorway.org/2023/01/23/long-covid-recovery-gary/ - I like how Gary describes his understanding of the mindbody recovery process.
https://www.thismighthurtfilm.com/long-covid - Neuroplastic pain recovery resources from the team at This Might Hurt documentary
https://youtu.be/4vF0XNBTv9A - Interview with Dr. Schubiner, explaining the mindbody process to address Long Covid

This is probably MORE than enough. 

It's all pretty much the same content (how to change the body experience, through retraining the brain) just through different lenses. 

Happy to share more. I think just learning that recovery is possible even begins the change due to predictive processing.

This episode I lead you through the work of PRT, Pain Reprocessing Therapy and how it ties into Intentional Thought Creation and the mindbody process, changing our physiological and emotional experiences. I share a story about the power of an audacious thought I practiced on my way to a party and also one of my favorite thoughts when dealing with triggering memories.

Change is always possible, we are never helpless, no matter how we feel about any circumstance or situation. Learning how to apply these tools have changed so many lives and it's possible for you too.

Book a curiosity call and let's talk about how you can work with me. https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

Here's Dr. Ashar's lecture on PRT and The Boulder Back Pain Study findings. A 5 year follow up study is in the works!
https://youtu.be/wotWuvrJW3I

In this episode I share how my clients' evocative metaphor work included imagery around floating and water which led me to remember the work of Dr. Claire Weekes and her book, Hope and Help for Your Nerves Hardcover – January 1, 1969.

When we are using a mindbody approach to healing it can feel kind of exhausting to remember and use all these tools, and especially if we are in a panic to not feel uncomfortable stuff. So learning to surrender, to float, is a very powerful message to our nervous system that there is no THREAT. It's not the same kind of dorsal freeze of a small animal pretending to be dead, no, it's the conscious releasing of tension using visualization and self trust which evokes the felt sense of safety, of OKness.

Here's some links to articles about her approach to anxiety - https://www.anxietycoach.com/claire-weekes.html

https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Overcome_Anxiety_with_Dr._Claire_Weekes

As you listen, remember it's not about knowing this stuff intellectually but being willing to play and practice these experiences in your body. Just like reading about weight lifting isn't the same as visualizing yourself lifting or actual weight lifting.

If you are feeling stuck on your journey to feeling better and would like a kind, curious and skilled guide, let's chat! https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

This podcast discussed the process of training our attention system on purpose, teaching ourselves how to use our past experiences in service for our future selves.

Proceeding into our today and tomorrow self benefits from wearing gentle goggles when we look in the rear view mirror.

I discuss some client stories and explore my own around moving and how I navigate efforting, physical pain and unlearning old conditioned responses.

How we pay attention and build belief in change, is a foundation of neuro + bio plasticity.

We illuminate, learn and practice with intention and exquisite self care in my coaching container.

If you don't know how to do that, I promise to teach you.

Learn how to stop shitting on past you in service of future you.

You can book a curiosity call with me at - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

I look forward to connecting with you and chatitng about what working together could be like.

Today's podcast I'm reflecting on conversations I've had with clients and myself about noticing shame and finding our way to the other side.

I'm calling this a practice of Catch + Release Shame. Learning how to lean into what we usually avoid is the beginning of changing everything.

When I asked my client for permission to share some of our conversation on the podcast, this was her response:

"Specifically, if you'd like more client perspective when you share: "your client" found that there was hidden shame, like in the "little" things they would not have guessed would have shame around them. This is because they consider themselves very open and shame-free when it comes to the things that society is so often shaming people for (gender, body size/hair, kinks, etc.) so they assumed there was no shame. Nope. They were blind to the little shames and grateful you pointed them out so they could explore the why's and work to release them, thus allowing enjoyment to fill that space, instead. I hope our "discoveries" help others 💓"

You can book a curiosity call with me at - https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb
I look forward to connecting with you and chatitng about what working together could be like. 

Oh the irony, I realized that in describing this idea WE didn't practice it. But I think that's not the easiest thing to do on a podcast because it needs empty air time. Soooooooooooo this is to put the ideas in your head what you can practice in the non-podcast time.

Here's some relevant links of things I mentioned in the podcast -

The Somatica Method - https://www.somaticainstitute.com/somatica-philosophy/

Some links about exposure therapy - https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/exposure-therapy

https://www.pathways.health/what-is-graded-exposure-therapy-and-how-can-it-help-chronic-pain/

https://div12.org/treatment/exposure-therapies-for-specific-phobias

How to book a free curiosity call with me!
https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

This is a peek inside my mind after I've read an article that really lights me up or brings me useful insights to help me help you (and myself). I share my somatic practices that help explore the beliefs around chronification supported by the Scandinavian Journal Of Pain.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sjpain-2022-0100/html?lang=en

https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb- click here to book a curiosity call with me!
https://www.instagram.com/movewithdeb/ - are you following me? I like to share tidbits about my personal mindbody process as well as other stuff! 

This episode I share with you a triad of mindbody experiences that are inspired by the question - What is the most loving thing you can think about .....?

I share experiences around giving feedback as an employee, how to work through a fight/flight response to be able to "see" one's loved one again and how imagining someone in their whole self/whole state can create change even without knowing "why" it works.

Here's some of the awesome humans I enjoy learning from -
Lindsay Dotzlaf - https://www.lindsaydotzlafcoaching.com

Melissa Tiers - https://www.melissatiers.com/

A Conversation with Dr. Ashar about the science of primary pain that I co-hosted at Lin Health - https://youtu.be/wotWuvrJW3I

Dr. Ashar's twitter - https://twitter.com/YoniAshar

If you are interested in working with me, I currently offer 12 weeks of mindbody/life coaching or if you want a quick shot of hypnosis, we can do that as well.  https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb

This is my riff off of new research about Misophonia and how it's not about sounds but it's about the perceived violation of our bodily autonomy in some people, our bodies are mirroring the motor patterns.

If we extend this metaphor, can we explore all other sensory inputs as well as the inputs of social, cultural and familial beliefs, thoughts and feelings? What is ours, what is theirs, and how can we strengthen our own human envelope against undesired permeability?

Here's the Scientific American article - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/misophonia-might-not-be-about-hating-sounds-after-all/

And my episode #40 - the I Notice Practice - https://www.movewithdeb.com/podcasts/move-with-deb-the-podcast/episodes/2147657304

The link to my consult calendar to book a curiosity call. Let's chat! https://calendly.com/paincoachdeb