Post Viral Podcast

In our final episode of the season, we talk about how to handle and overcome setbacks, flare ups and crashes. Sadly, if you live with chronic fatigue, it’s a topic you’ll be familiar with, but it’s also what makes us such a resilient community. 

Sharing our experiences, we talk about some serious topics like suicide, so if you don’t feel like you want to listen to right now, you can skip minute 18.40 to minute 26.40. We also talk about how finding our passions while we're unwell is one of the positive outcomes of our struggles. As always, this episode should not be taken as medical advice, but we discuss a range of resources that may be helpful:

If you’ve liked the podcast series, please do like, share and follow us as it helps others find us too.

Lots of love,

Lindsay and Stu @postviralpodcast

We live in a society which increasingly values individuality: “What can I do about it?”; “How will this help me?”. It’s only natural that once we take personal responsibility for our health and recovery, we think that it’s all down to us.  

But no person is an island, and we believe recovery works best in community. In today’s episode, we discuss the important lessons about community we’ve learned from being ill and how our environment directly impacts our health. We also discuss dogs, dating and the damage mould can do! As always, we are no medical experts and these are just our own opinions, we cite a lot of extra resources if of interest.  

Farley Moet: "Never Cry Wolf"  

Hector Garcia: "Ikigai"  

Kathleen McCue: "How to Help Children Through a Serious Illness"  

Gary Chapman: "The Five Love Languages"  

2011 Happy Documentary  

Jennifer Brea Ted Talk & Unrest Documentary

Harvard Review: Blood Pressure effect of petting a dog 

Research on benefits of community on health  

Raelan Agle CFS Recovery Facebook Group  

CFS Warriors "Circles of Relationships" 

CFS Health Toby Morrison video for friends & family  

Alex Howard Recovery Story   

Heal with Liz YouTube  

Jenn Mann Instagram  

Wanda Belisle Instagram  

Gemma Hanley CFS Mindset Coach  

Chronically Andrea Children’s book

Dr Jill Crista  

Dr Neil Nathan  

Envirobiomics  

Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test  

We hope you find this helpful and would love to hear from you @postviralpodcast on Instagram and [email protected] Thanks! Stu & Lindsay x

How do you learn to stop people pleasing? Understand your values and introduce some boundaries!

In this episode, we discuss how understanding what's important to you (your values) is helpful to make positive changes for your health (boundaries!). The life you were living pre-chronic fatigue may not have been conducive to good health moving forward, and you may value different things now. But putting into place new boundaries that reflect these changes isn't always easy. In today's episode, we discuss what are values and needs; how to work what are your values; how to know if you need a boundary; and how you'd go about setting up and honouring that boundary. Here's some of the resources we discuss:

Just a reminder, this is not medical advice and we are not medical professionals - all the opinions are just our own. We hope you find it interesting, so please reach out via our instagram or email!

Love Lindsay & Stu 

Lightning Process, DNRS, Gupta Method… chances are if you have chronic fatigue syndrome you may have come across one of the many ‘Brain retraining’ programmes that claim to help people heal. But can changing the brain really heal the body from a physical ailment?

In today’s epsiode, we delve into some of the science that supports brain retraining methods, the impact an impaired limbic system can have on the body and our own experiences with brain retraining.

As always, these are purely our views and are not medical advice, but for more infor here’s the resources we cite in the episode:

If you have thoughts or questions we'd love to hear from you @postviralpodcast and [email protected].

Lots of love! Lindsay & Stu x

In this episode, we dive deep into the ‘emotionally repressed’ personality trait from our previous conversation, how it links to chronic fatigue and which strategies may help us regulate and process our emotions better. We discuss how we’ve historically avoided our emotions and where that’s led healthwise, and the techniques of Dr Sarno, Tara Brach, Emily and Amelia Nagoski and Dr Gabor Mate have all helped us process unresolved trauma and day to day emotions which arise. All views are just the opinions of Lindsay Vine and Stuart Bryan and are not medical advice. 

If you want some more info, here’s some of the works we reference: 

- ‘Period Repair Manual’, by Lara Briden 

- 'The MindBody Prescription', by Dr Sarno (with 88% success rate study)

- 'When the Body Says No', by Dr Gabor Mate

- ‘You Can Heal your Life’, by Louise Hay (free Youtube audionbook)

- ‘The Body Keeps the Score’, by Dr Bessel Van de Kolk

- 'Burnout', by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

- Effectiveness of journalling out anger Pennebaker study 

- Nicole Sachs video on Dr Sarno technique

Thanks so much for listening! We love hearing from you so please get in touch if via our Instagram or [email protected] 

Muchas Gracias! Stu & Lindsay x