The Release Movement

This is the complete, unfiltered story of Chef Brian Lagerstrom's recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome. Brian went from being stuck on the couch unable to function to running a 1.7M subscriber YouTube cooking channel - all while healing from ME/CFS with the Release Program

In this extended interview, we dive deep into every aspect of his journey: the years of failed treatments, the moment he realized he had to face himself, the specific inner work that triggered his recovery, and how he managed to build his channel while still healing.

This is for anyone who has tried everything and feels stuck. Brian's story proves that complete recovery is possible when you address the nervous system and psychological roots of chronic illness.

Join the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction and How CFS Started

06:39 - Shifting his identity and personality because of CFS

14:14 - Other treatments Brian tried

22:35 - Discovering Our Program

27:42 - Stressful living as our default state

31:42 - Doing the releases to feel better 37:28 - The process is a spiritual awakening

45:48 - CFS vs his marriage

49:08 - The biggest expension from healing chronic fatigue

54:41 - Final Advice

Why does chronic illness recovery feel impossible?

In this episode, I explain the Dark Night of the Soul and the grief phases that amplify your symptoms during healing. If your symptoms get worse before they get better, this is for you. What you'll learn:

- The Dark Night of the Soul explained for chronic illness

- Why grief intensifies physical symptoms - The 5 phases and why recovery is more complicated than you think

- How to navigate symptom amplification during healing Before I became a health coach, I struggled with chronic fatigue syndrome for years. Understanding the grief process changed everything.

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This isn't about fighting your symptoms or figuring out what they mean. This 25-minute guided meditation helps you:

✨ Allow your symptoms to simply be there (without resistance)

✨ Connect with a soft, gentle part inside yourself

✨ Experience what it feels like to stop the internal struggle

Perfect for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) who automatically tense up or go into fight-or-flight when trying to feel their bodies. This gentle practice teaches you to be with yourself without judgment, analysis, or the need to change anything. It's about presence, not performance.

Join the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

💙 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: We help people with CFS/ME and long covid heal in a completely different way. After struggling with chronic fatigue syndrome for years myself, I discovered that true healing comes from allowing, not fighting.

Why do you have chronic illness while others stay healthy? You weren't cursed—you were chosen for consciousness evolution. While most people ignore their deepest emotional wounds and stay trapped in fear-based systems, your body forced you to stop and do the deep work.

In this video, I explain the connection between unresolved emotions, consciousness levels, and chronic illness. When we're stuck at lower consciousness levels (shame, guilt, fear, anger), we're trapped in fight-or-flight. This clouds our thinking and keeps us sick.

Without a clear path, chronic illness creates unnecessary victim mentality. That's because commonly accepted puzzle pieces aren't concise, and people share accidental recovery strategies that don't work systematically.

The truth: Releasing emotional layers raises your consciousness and exits fight-or-flight—leading to true healing capacity. Your illness is your spiritual awakening.

After nearly many years with chronic fatigue syndrome, I thought healing would be the end of my struggles. I was wrong. Recovery brought an unexpected identity crisis that nobody warned me about.

In this video, I open up about the raw truth of what happens when you finally heal from chronic illness—the disorienting experience of no longer recognizing yourself or your place in the world. When survival mode ends, who are you underneath?

What you'll discover:

Why healing can trigger a profound identity crisis

How chronic fatigue syndrome changes your personality and values

The challenge of reconnecting with friends who moved on during your illness

Why the "old you" might not exist anymore (and why that’s okay) How to rebuild community when you no longer fit anywhere

Practical steps for navigating this overlooked part of recovery

If you've been struggling with chronic fatigue syndrome, ME/CFS, long covid, or similar conditions and feel lost after improvement, you're not alone. This identity shift is a normal part of the healing journey that deserves attention and compassion. Have you felt this identity confusion during your chronic illness recovery? What helped you navigate this transition? Timestamps: 00:43 The unspoken identity shift 05:40 Social disconnect and re-entry schock 11:11 The search for a new community 15:28 Rebuilding Identity J

oin the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

Reset your nervous system and reconnect with your body’s natural healing wisdom in this gentle guided meditation, designed specifically for chronic illness recovery.

In this session, you’ll learn how to calm your nervous system, gently process the emotions behind your symptoms, and create space for deep healing. This meditation is perfect for anyone living with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, or similar conditions.

🌿 What you’ll experience:

- Nervous system regulation techniques

- Gentle emotional release practices

- Mind-body reconnection exercises

This meditation is part of our holistic approach to chronic illness recovery, focusing on the emotional and nervous system aspects of healing that are often overlooked in traditional medicine. If this meditation supports you, please like, comment, and subscribe for more healing resources.

Join the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

Are your fatigue and other symptoms trying to tell you something deeper? In this eye-opening video, I dive into the “4 Bodies” concept and reveal how your beliefs, desires, dogmas, and behaviors are often just shields protecting you from emotional pain. Using a powerful mind map technique, I’ll show you step-by-step how to uncover the hidden emotional roots behind chronic symptoms—so you can finally break free from the cycle of suffering from your chronic illness.

Discover how your psyche’s drive to avoid pain may be creating more of it—on every level: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. I’ll walk you through a real-life example, mapping out the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and symptoms, and give you practical tools to start your own healing journey today.

Join the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

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In this deeply personal episode, I share the spiritual journey behind the Release program and my CFS healing journey. From my encounters with truth and non-duality to the moment I was asked to create a recovery program, this is the story of how healing became more than just emotional. It became sacred.

I talk about how I met Valentina, the role my angel played in guiding me to her, and the unseen forces that try to keep us from healing. This is not just about symptoms or techniques. It is about the spiritual battle between light and shadow that many of us feel but rarely speak about.

If you’ve ever sensed that your healing journey is part of something bigger, this episode is for you.

Join the Release program to speed up your healing from ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, MCAS, Post-Vac and other chronic illnesses.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

You Can’t Be Authentic Without This Emotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmi8HpTx6vE

Book: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20579291-lies-we-tell-ourselves

Life With Kyle: Daniel Van Loosbroek - Healing Chronic Fatigue And Awakening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz2QO5olbZg&t=3929s

Practical spirituality, shadow work & awareness - Healing ME/CFS Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkMAiZzULJE&t=1531s

Welcome back. It’s finally becoming more accepted to talk about emotional healing in the context of chronic illness—but in this episode, we’re going even deeper.

In this podcast, I explore why authenticity is not just a nice idea—it’s a crucial part of your healing journey. Whether you're navigating ME/CFS, Chronic Lyme, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID, or MCAS, this is your invitation to reconnect with your true self.

One of the most powerful—and misunderstood—gateways to that self? Anger.

By reintegrating anger, we don’t just reclaim boundaries. We unlock creativity, humanness, real sexuality, and a deeper sense of aliveness. In a world where chronic illness is rising, AI is accelerating, and people are becoming more robotic, this kind of inner fire is more needed than ever.

🔥 In this episode:

• Why anger is not the enemy—it’s the portal
• How emotional suppression fuels chronic symptoms
• A guided exercise to embody your anger and access your true self

Let’s dive in. Your power is waiting.

🌐 Release Website - https://releasecfs.com/

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/release.cfs/

What if your chronic illness isn’t just a personal crisis… but a reflection of a world unraveling in the same way?

In this video, we explore the haunting parallels between personal dysregulation and societal collapse—how the burnout, confusion, and fragmentation we feel inside are mirrored in the systems around us.

Society is exhausted. It’s addicted to productivity, allergic to rest, and terrified of stillness. Just like many of us with CFS, Long COVID, burnout, or trauma, it’s running on survival mode—chasing money, success, and control to avoid feeling what’s underneath.

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