The Curiosity Cure - MindBody Wellness

Today's short and sweet podcast that's about flipping a pretty standard practice that many people in pain do on their own and/or are directed by their healthcare providers to do, Tracking Symptoms, to one that's one that will develop increased health + wellbeing.  

There's research that shows that tracking symptoms has a dark side, increasing distress, anxiety and symptoms. And from my expereince, tracking can hamper healing and brain rewiring.  

In the episode notes I'll link to articles and studies as well as the image of The Comfort Scale. But I want to encourage you sink into your creativity and develop a way of tracking comfort that feels best to you. As with anything in mindbody practices, letting yourself be in process and explore with curiosity. 

Articles - 
https://www.wired.com/story/why-tracking-your-symptoms-can-make-you-feel-worse/

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_overcome_your_brains_fixation_on_bad_things

https://medicalfuturist.com/the-dark-side-of-health-trackers/

Roger's version of The Comfort Scale
https://hypnosishealthinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Comfort-Scale.pdf

If you make your own version, I would love love love to see it!

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Today's podcast is a short response to what I've been noticing in myself or my clients when we're having a first response of reactivity, fear or self rejection.  

This rewiring process of cultivating a sense of emotional congruency is about healing the threatening gap of self rejection, judgment and exiling. When we commit to being a safe landing place for our own emotions we can expand our sense of internal and external safety and lower the threat response in our body that keeps our muscles tight, our pain alarms ringing and teaches our brain that emotions and sensations are dangerous and need to be avoided. 

There's no time like the present to start practicing how to cultivate coherence and self connection for healing.
 

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Buckle in Feelers + Healers. This is a long and windy episode. It starts with the most recent experience of Hurricane Milton and goes back in time to late August and an acute knee pain experience and the emotional stressors I was facing around that time which may have contributed to my flare. Having recovered from that experience, I wanted to talk through my mindset, emotional processing and mindbody approach that I took to reduce my pain and regain function.

As always, with any new and acute pain, please speak to your doctor, and make sure that there's no injury or infection that needs medical care. My choices and decisions around my body are my own and not intended to be diagnostic for anyone else.

Here's the link for Lesley's book - https://bookshop.org/p/books/two-whole-cakes-how-to-stop-dieting-and-learn-to-love-your-body-lesley-kinzel/10413288?ean=9781558617933

 

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I’m uploading today’s from the plane as I’m heading to the PPDA Psychophysiologic Disorders Association Conference in Boulder.

My hopes with this podcast is to inform and carry on the tradition of mindbody pioneers like Dr. Sarno who said that information and understanding are the treatment.

And it’s essential to not just talk about ideas but to give you things to practice rooted in a mindbody framework.

So today’s short practice that you can do anywhere at any time, is to help you lean in to movement with a sense of safety, curiosity and empowerment with a way of soothing and tending to your nervous system.

Listen once. Try it. Listen again. Try it again even more deeply with more understanding and listen again and again until your brain and body start to approach moving with this orientation.

Book a call with me if you want to go deeper into this work individually with me. I’d love to connect. 

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In this episode my colleague Alora Kubanek talks about the evolution of her work from dance, to pilates to a mindbody movement centered body dialogue approach.

Alora is the founder of ‘Befriend Your Body’ a body-positive online somatic coaching business. Her signature Body Dialogue sessions are designed to help improve the communication between the brain and body. Alora is a trauma-informed movement specialist who understands what its like to live with persistent and invisible conditions. She offers 1-1 support, guest teaching, and also collaborates with life coaches and thought leaders who want develop more embodied experiences.

You can find their work online here:

www.befriendyourbody.ca
https://www.instagram.com/body_dialogues/
https://www.facebook.com/BefriendYourBodyAsItIs
 

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Hello my feelers + healers!  

Today's conversation with Mattia takes us through their journey with chronic pain, feeling better, and the ways they navigate their inner mindbody conversation as someone with AuDHD + PDA. We touch upon themes of neurodivergence, gender transition, resourcing inner + external safety. We chat about using hypnotic techniques to decrease a sense of threat/unsafety that may accompany disorders like ehlers-danlos syndrome and POTS.  

Mattia Maurée is a composer, writer, and host of the AuDHD Flourishing podcast. They help other neurodivergent folks who want to build a sustainable life but struggle with the day-to-day. They have a true obsession with arctic puffins.  

Links:

Main (starter podcast page): https://www.audhdflourishing.com/hello

Like Your Brain (peer support community): https://www.patreon.com/mattia  - so good! I'm in here and love it.

Love Your Brain (course): https://www.audhdflourishing.com/challenge-page/joinlyb

 

Related recovery stories that might be of interest. Most are not my clients but they are working with the mindbody healing techniques, theories and resources that I speak about on this podcast:

S2E29 Petra's Pain Recovery Dream Life - she has EDS and recovered from chronic pain.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e29-petras-pain-recovery-dream-life/id1595415545?i=1000661834736

S3 Ep33: The Neuroscience of Chronic Pain: POTS, Interstitial Cystitis, Fibro, CFS and more with Gigi
https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2/episodes/2148744168

First person experience using these techniques to recover from POTS and Long Covid.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LongHaulersRecovery/comments/18c8e50/100_recovered_potshi/

Ep 41 Intuitive Healing From Chronic Fatigue, POTS, Lyme Disease, Long COVID and More with Rebecca Tolin
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-41-intuitive-healing-from-chronic-fatigue-pots-lyme/id1679033028?i=1000664796548

Morgan's TMS Success Story - Long COVID, POTS, Dizziness, Digestion, Nausea, and Food Sensitivities
https://youtu.be/IUavpJfgs50?si=Nzk26wt98r-4yTN6

S3 Ep82: Lifelong IBS, Depression, and Adult ADHD with Alice (at the end she speaks about how ADHD is connected with life long masking + stress)
https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2/episodes/2148744120

How I cured my Mast Cell Activation syndrome (MCAS) with Helmut 
https://youtu.be/SrG6P5N439g?si=g4Iz8ELFaCTtMQcz

Vanessa shares her shocking recovery from Pots, meniere's disease, pppd, Gastroparesis, cfs, + with Helmut
https://youtu.be/vduQns3cR3k?si=ZXqq_jghIW9j7INX

And here's a scientific article that talks about the psychiatric + nervous system symtoms that are connected with EDS. In our conversation Mattia touches upon the interoception and felt sense of danger that is associate with EDS in our conversation. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365276/?

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This episode I talk about a mindbody healing tool The Magnet Approach and an activity called The Drop Through. Again the goal is to help your brain and nervous system address your threat physiology detection system and working with your brain in creating change on purpose. Gentle neuroplasticity encourage us that how we attend is a part of the neuro-somatic rewiring process. Also I enjoyed the F out of a cold cold river. 

Here's some interesting articles about cold and how it's used to explore pain.

Temperature and the cold pressor test
Laura A Mitchell *, Raymond A.R MacDonald *, Eric E Brodie *
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1526590004007461

Molecular mechanisms of cold pain
Donald Iain MacDonald,⁎,1 John N. Wood, and Edward C. Emery
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025288/

Oh look Sleep Affects Pain 
Total Sleep Deprivation and Pain Perception during Cold Noxious Stimuli in Humans
Robert A. Larson, MS and Jason R. Carter, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111796/


 

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This episode is a peek into what two mindbody practitioners talk about. Hear bits of our own process of this work helping us find and revel in our humanness.  

Anna Holtzman is a colleague, friend and leader in mindbody pain recovery. She  is a licensed psychotherapist and mind-body coach who helps people find relief from chronic pain and other symptoms of a stressed-out nervous system. She came to this work through her own recovery from 10 years of migraine. In a prior career, Anna worked in reality TV as a video editor and she continues to use her love of storytelling through her blog and podcast, both titled From Chronic Pain to Passion. She lives in New York City with her partner, stepdaughter, and three orange cats.

I don't think I could write better than Anna to describe this episode, here's what she said about our conversation:

Deb and I are also part of a cohort of mind-body coaches who get together about twice a month and let it all hang out together, which has been so instrumental for my growth. And as we’ll talk about, it’s not always easy letting yourself be vulnerable, even in the most supportive of spaces. But what I find over and over again is that it’s so worth it, because the healing and growth that comes from allowing ourselves to connect with one another through our vulnerability and honesty is really the only gateway to joy in life, as far as I can tell.

So, here’s me and Deb getting real with each other — and with you — about what it’s like to be a beautifully messy human being who helps other beautifully messy human beings. And I hope this conversation serves as a permission slip to let your own beautiful messiness shine through.

Where you can find Anna...

website: https://www.annaholtzman.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_holtzman/

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Today's podcast we're covering the magic that can happen when we stop avoiding getting curious about what we're avoiding?

Have I confused you? Just listen to this and practice peeking in with gentleness about what gets you digging a hole, falling into it and then using all your energy to crawl out of it. Learn how curiosity can lead you to quick results by titrating just the right exposure of what you're avoiding that you can begin to easily neutralize it.

Meet Andrew, a bike guy who recovered from pelvic pain and is sharing his recovery journey with others. So glad he's back on the bike riding and having fun!  https://www.instagram.com/andrewmbcyclist/

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Today's podcast is my exploration into using my mindbody tools and practice to approach an activity desire I have, riding my bike. This has been a tough one and I am noticing some shame and fear arising. But I'm dedicated to exploring curiosity and what an approaching vs. avoidance strategy might look like.  

I can't wait to bring this "problem" with me to Hypnothoughts Live and explore what hypnosis skills I can apply to make this feel easy, fun and successful to acheive.  
 

I hope you follow along and connect with an activity or desire you might have in your life.  
Need help, I got you!

Here's my friend Andrea's website and instagram, please follow her!
https://www.amplemovement.com/
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