Lisa continues and concludes her story. She shares how ultimately, her journey will help you, the listener, heal your own relationship to food, eating, body image, etc. and how this podcast will serve to lead you out of the cave.

Topics:

- Life after weight loss

- How Lisa’s IBS led her closer to the mind-body connection

- How Jon Gabriel and Nicole Sachs impacted Lisa’s healing journey and work

- Maintaining Weight Loss

- Speaking at the Omega Institute

[2:09] Lisa explains what happened after her 150-pound weight loss, including the research she did around holistic, mind-body methods to health. She relied on the support of a therapist and nutritionist, and learned to stabilize her weight as well as her mental and emotional health

[5:54] Lisa deals with one lingering issue, which would later be diagnosed as IBS, and tried tests, medications, many doctors, and different procedures, and no one could give her any answers until she was given a diagnosis of Post Infectious IBS (Presumably due to a bought of diarrhea in Ghana)

[10:09] Lisa copes for years with her diagnosis of IBS and retreats back to her defense of retreat and denial, while underneath feeling very sad and scared. Though her entire life was being affected, she was still riding the high of her dramatic weight loss, including walking and even running comfortably, shopping with ease, and just generally fitting into the world around her

[15:20] Lisa graduated from the University of Michigan, knowing she loved being in the gym and loved helping people. She decided to become a certified personal trainer, not dieting, focusing on mental health and stress reduction, and was amazed to see her weight stabilizing and finally felt an “effortlessness” around food and body

[18:25] Lisa finds herself in a position where she is fully embodying mind-body health, felt she was really onto something, and knew it was becoming clear that food, dieting, and exercise could not heal emotional eating

[20:14] Lisa attends a Jon Gabriel retreat at the Omega Institute in New York, and felt at home but out of place in such a spiritual place because at the time she was completely disconnected to anything that couldn’t be seen, touched, or proven with data

[25:46] The following year Lisa speaks at the retreat and shares her success story from the lens of weight maintenance because she was beating the odds of someone who is defying the statistic that 98% of the people who go on a diet gain the weight back

[27:00] In 2018, Lisa returns to speak at the Omega Institute and meets Nicole Sachs, who was also there to teach about how she helped thousands of people around the entire world heal from chronic pain, including IBS, and was hearing all she had to say until she suggested you could use journaling to cure chronic pain

[32:30] Listening to Nicole, Lisa realizes that her inner work isn’t done despite maintaining her 150 pound weight loss. If we can accept that stress can cause something like a one time headache, why can’t we accept that stress can cause chronic pain?

[37:15] While taking a new look at the onset of her IBS, Lisa thought back to Semester at Sea, where she was too preoccupied with food and eating to be the “life of the party” persona, and for the first time felt awake to her own anxiety, and also, for the first time, felt exposed to the world and saw poverty, illness, heartbreak, death, and struggle

[43:19] Lisa begins doing Nicole’s work and realizes that everything she knew to be true around food and eating was also true around chronic pain, and understanding this work on a cognitive level- while still experiencing some skepticism around things like “drawing her pain”

Resources:

The Cure For Chronic Pain Podcast

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