The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Heather McKean is an experienced coach and healer.  Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by reprogramming the brain's patterns. Mind Change is a collection of new, cutting-edge techniques that draws together a range of effective modalities to offer rapid change.  In this conversation, Heather and Anna explore the emotional drivers of fatigue. There is a little sound distortion at times (at Anna's end) — so please forgive that! 

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

In this episode,  Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might not have heard Ashok speak like this before, even if you know his work.

Ashok Gupta is well known to the community of people who are on the healing journey with fatigue. He is the founder and CEO of the Gupta Program, a celebrated recovery program that leverages neuroplasticity and mindfulness in a variety of ways. In this episode, Ashok also mentions his new initiative: 'Daily Guptacise'.

You can find out more about Ashok, his work and his programme here: https://guptaprogram.com/?fbclid=IwAR1JcPHQmCRvPJcLzdBJk7_KgMH9Xme1TkC-QK4FfQzLvTlUmBFak_jT9aQ  

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

Like many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal fatigue. Her condition was ignited by a ‘push through’ attitude that resulted in a chronic stress response in her brain and left her body vulnerable to infections, inflammation and fatigue. Sharon now works with others, helping them in their recovery journey. She has multiple degrees and coaching certifications: Bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience and in Biological Sciences, and a Master’s degree in Biological Sciences specialising in Behavioral Science. Sharon is a life, health and therapeutic coach and a former clinical massage therapist. You can find her here: https://sharonwirant.com

Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback.

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

The Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer)

Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain, from The Prophet, and particularly this line, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding'.

So many people who go through serious illness seem to encounter some sort of breaking of the shell. Anna describes her  breaking, or breakthrough, as part of a rather frightening spiritual experience. Not something she would choose and yet something for which she is profoundly grateful. 

Unlike most recovery stories, this one is not really about recovery, nor is it about those things we hope will make us well. It's not so much about diets or supplements, infrared or wearable vagus nerve stimulating devices, but more about the inner journey,  leaning into areas of personal resilience and following one's own North Star. 

Anna's environmental wisdom does, however, help us towards a healing direction, whilst acknowledging the individual nature of each person's journey with a fatigue related illness. 

Being part of this podcast has been a wonderful experience on many levels and nourishes my own sometimes wobbly trust in a better future. As Anna shows so clearly, there is always hope'. 

Elaine Walker

Elaine has a long-time experience of ME/CFS and is a member of the HypnoCatalyst NeuroCalm Community on Facebook. She felt that she wanted to interview Anna, to find out more of Anna's own journey. This podcast episode is the result.

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

What if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states?  In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast.  Ben is an innovation trainer and coach for 'disrupters and change makers — helping accelerate innovation by thinking and imagining in new ways — based on how your embodied brain actually works!'  Anna and Ben explore the incredible reality-construction processes of the brain and its immense capacity for flexibility,  change-making and in particular, the generation of 'choicefulness' — a key variable in healing processes. Towards the end of the conversation, they emphasise the importance and power of 'states' to drive changes in physiology and the power of the imagination to generate biological shifts in the body.

To find out more about Ben's work, go here: https://unconscious-innovation.com/

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

In this episode, Anna speaks with Patricia Kolbe, who has had her own  battle with debilitating chronic fatigue. Patricia is a coach on the Energy BluePrint Program (Ari Whitten) and the Gupta Program (Ashok Gupta).  

Patricia holds two master’s degrees and has completed five years of doctoral-level research training. She brings a fantastically wide set of skills, experience and knowledge to her work.  She has done biomedical research, studied Eastern approaches to mind-body healing and is a committed spiritual practitioner. 

In this lively conversation, Anna and Patricia explore various layers of healing from fatigue and distinguish between healing and recovery (an increasingly important theme in all of Anna's work). 

Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback.

Support the show

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist. In this conversation, Terry and Anna explore the rich allusiveness of dreams as a portal to the unconscious. Various themes emerge — but the core encouragement to all who suffer from complex fatigue is to work with dreams because such work can be truly transformative and healing.

Terry is an author who writes on non-linear science, creativity, play and clinical intuition and is an expert in nonlinear dynamics and interpersonal neurobiology. Terry is also an artist, dancer and yogini.

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch, the 'Energy MD' and founder of Fix Your Fatigue. Evan takes a multi-layered, highly systematic approach to the healing of fatigue. He has helped thousands of people recover.

In this conversation, Evan discusses a range of practical themes fundamental to recovery and healing. His approach is all about finding the causes, matching them to the right treatment and navigating the setbacks in that process with skill and acceptance. He is absolutely certain that if the causes are all identified and address, the person will recover — and this has been his consistent experience with patients. This is a rich, practical conversation from which listeners can gain insight and guidance on their own health path.

You can find out more about Evan's work at https://www.energymdmethod.com/  

Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback.

Support the show

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

This episode features Dan Neuffer, author of CFS Unravelled: Get Well by Treating the Cause, not just the Symptoms of CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS and Related Syndromes.

Dan is the creator of the ANS REWIRE Recovery Program.  In this conversation, Dan and Anna explore the perceived dichotomy between 'body-mind' and 'physical' approaches to recovery from fatigue. They problematise the dichotomy in a conversation full of Dan's typically lively intelligence. Together, Dan and Anna frame body and mind as aspects of one lively system. They reflect on what follows from that framing for understanding fatigue illnesses, and on the practical implications of that understanding for process(es) of recovery.

You can discover more of Dan's work here: https://cfsunravelled.com/

Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback.

Support the show

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.

The guest for this podcast edition is artist, fiction writer and academic, Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopolous. In this edition, Andreas and Anna play with the theme of 'thinking-with-water', reflecting on how such thinking might shed light on the experience of fatigue — and the self — as a lived experience.  We reflect on the fluid nature of self, fatigue itself, and the transformations generated by fatigue. This is a richly multi-layered conversation full of exploration. Food for 'the mind' for those who want to taste something beyond fatigue-approaches-as-usual.

To find out more about Andreas's work (of various kinds), you can find 'him' at https://andreaspm.com/

Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but we can sometimes answer a question on a future podcast episode. We always appreciate feedback.

Support the show

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To find out about working with Anna, please visit www.hypnocatalyst.com 

Anna specialises in profound healing work. Her approach addresses all the layers of human well-being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. 

You can take her uniquely life-changing healing course 'Somatic Liberation: The Deep Intelligence Healing System' by going to her website. 

The course has been described as:

 'This is some kind of magical'. 

'It feels as if what came before was mere apprenticeship'.

'Highly engaging. Deeply immersive'.

'This is a course in a class of its own, offering transformation at a deep level'.

'I've never felt more in awe, more empowered and more intrigued'.

There is nothing else like it out there for nervous system transformation, brainwork magic, partnering with your own unconscious mind and transforming your relationship with your body, forever.