It’s one thing to understand the neursocience of pain, it’s another thing to have the tools to fight it.

If you’ve ever wondered how & why prayer is an excellent way to interrupt the pain/ fear cycle, then this is a great podcast for you.

“Prayer Flows from our trust and FORMS up our trust.” Pastor Luke Davis

Pastor Luke Davis and I talk through Psalms 54 about how David is such a great example of praying through trauma, and interrupting fear by building up his faith & trust!

Luke unpacks how David is really craving these three things - safety, control & certainty. Sound familiar? It did to me too.

Here is a link to the original sermon I heard from Pastor David - you might be interested in checking out the whole series.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/downtown-cornerstone-church/id424165663?i=1000607056617

If you are interested in working with me to recover from chronic symptoms, check out my website and schedule a consultation to see if we are a good fit.

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This is not going to be your typical list of 1. breathe 2. relax your muscles, 3. yoga, 4. cold water type of list to calm your nervous system.

This is a more comprehensive, big picture goals of creating lasting, real change in your brain & body to bring about peace that passes understanding.

Teaching your nervous system that you are safe is not an easy job because your brain is wired (from life experiences) to bypass the reasoning part of our brain. Therefore, recovering from chronic symptoms is a journey. It's important to be patient with yourself.

The journey includes small changes and big changes.

After you listen to my video, I would love if you would add your comments below. What changes have helped you to teach your nervous system that you are okay?

This week I answer the question that someone sent me via email. "What practical things can I do/ think to make my nervous system feel safe and turn down pain?"

I also briefly answer the question someone else emailed me "Is this spiritual attack?"

For me, teaching my nervous system that I was safe included a combination of superficial changes in how I was using my body but also in how I approached life at a deep level. This included battling fear with the armor of the Lord.

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After 20 years of chronic migraine's Marci Arneson has found freedom. In this episode she talks about the role the Bible had in helping her walk fearlessly while also reversing her pain. She brings up how in our childhood we are often taught "to be careful" but sometimes that "be careful" can become a default fear state for our brain's and our bodies. In this episode she talks about how God says "fear not," he doesn't say "push through your fear." She began praying "God, Only let me fear what I need to fear." If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult. Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected] #chronicmigraines #fearnot #fearless #wheniamweak #tms #mindbodyconnection #mindbodysoul #mindbodyspirit #fightorflight #nervoussystem #youcanheal #unlearnyourpain #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #footpain #centralsensitization #sibo #ibs #carpaltunnel #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #insomnia #thewayout #somatictracking #somatictherapy #painfreeyou #neuroplasticpain #neuralcircuitpain #rawnresponse

As a Christian, it can be confusing to hear all of the evolutionary explanations of why our bodies are dysregulted or how to reverse chronic pain through using the vagus nerve, meditation, breathing, etc.

I have had quite a few emails asking me to unpack my beliefs on this. So here it is. In this video, I keep it simple. I believe God created us with a Vagus nerve, Emotions, AND the ability to think Logically. They are all a gift from God and IT is good to use them as tools to heal.

Understanding WHY the vagus nerve is helpful to be a great tool in healing. I used cold water, deep breathing, humming, singing and more in my own healing process. It is important that you honor your own conscience with these tools.

I also talk about the ACE's study and how Adverse Childhood Experiences can be what causes dysregulation, hypervigilance and chronic pain in the first place.

I discuss the term “Trauma” and how it can often be mistaken as a diagnosis that is unhealable. This is not true, nor biblical!

I hope you enjoy!

If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult.

Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected]

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Fiona Symington has a beautiful story of healing from ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome AND pain.

Most Mind body syndrome tools use language that targets chronic pain, but chronic fatigue or ME is reversed in the same way. We talk about her story of healing, how she used those tools to reverse her fatigue, which of the tools were her favorite, and how she is able to live a full life now. Here are her other interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2vCYXPRAY&t=3s

https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast/fiona-recovery-story-chronic-fatigue-syndrome?gclid=Cj0KCQjw8e-gBhD0ARIsAJiDsaU7xm63wGzMRDbGdc_5WOli4aI3Vcggucdc-RLmW_4xynj1Q_JdZzgaAk6JEALw_wcB&fbclid=IwAR28OQeLyOD64myO5Asz6Eo_XIGILDIgX-NqNTj3ipSpRO9fhzzakpNPiss

I hope you enjoy!

If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult.

Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected]

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I hope you enjoy this episode! We talk about a whole variety of concepts like “what is pain” to “how do you heal?”. We also talk about imaging that shows that even people with normal abnormalities don’t have pain and therefore pain doesn’t have a correlation with tissue damage.

Enjoy!

Whether you are a practitioner looking for extra training in MBS or a patient in chronic pain, you will want to check our her resources found below.

Here is a little bit about her.

Georgie Oldfield MCSP is a leading physiotherapist and chronic pain specialist, promoting a pioneering approach to resolving chronic pain through her online SIRPA Recovery Programme. Georgie is the founder of SIRPATM, an organisation dedicated to promoting the concept that chronic pain is part of an unconscious protective response caused by learned nerve pathways, rather than any physical ‘abnormality’ found, hence full recovery is possible. 

As well as her clinical work, Georgie gives talks and writes widely about the concept, publishing a book, ‘Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery’ in 2014 and giving a TEDx talk in Manchester, UK in 2019. In 2010, through SIRPATM, she developed the first training programme worldwide enabling health professionals and coaches to learn how to integrate this approach and the concept on which it is based within their own work. Georgie has also organised and hosted three conferences in this field which were held at the home of the Royal Society of Medicine in London in 2015, 2017 & 2022

I hope you enjoy!

Here are all her resources. https://www.georgieoldfield.com
https://www.sirpa.org/

Her TedTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsBJgMKHrw

Her book: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Georgie-Oldfield/author/B00TR45IR0?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult to see if we are a good fit.

Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected]

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In this week's episode, I come back to the idea of flareups.

My clients often say, "...but I'm ALWAYs in pain..how can I have a flare-up?" In this video I explain what I mean by flare-up and how you can use a flare up as a blessing.

I talk about conditioned pain vs currently being triggered by something emotional. This goes back to Pavlov's dogs (classical conditioning) and understanding how the brain can end up in a habit of producing pain.

I'm sick during this episode, so you will have to excuse my nasally voice ;)

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It's so encouraging to hear a good healing story - especially one that takes someone from excruciating pain for 15 years to pain-free.

Dan Hindsley was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease, Sciatica and Bulging discs. He went from barely able to walk to doing a Triathlon. He did this by journaling, visualizing, somatic tracking and more.

Here is his blog and the amazing articles he has written. I love how he keeps it simple and breaks it down practically for all of us to understand.

https://medium.com/@daniel.hindsley If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult.

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When we feel the need to meet certain needs, we will put tons of pressure on ourselves to meet those needs.

But are they really needs God wants us to meet?

Today I am talking about page 28 of Dr. John Sarno's book "The Mind Body Prescription." In this section of the book he talks about how these unmet needs can lead to rage (or other deep emotions). Often, these beliefs, needs, thoughts and emotions are undiscovered. We are often living under these feelings that are still unconscious to us. As usual, I talk about how discovering these subconscious beliefs can draw is near to God for truth and freedom. If you are looking to reverse your chronic pain or symptoms, reach out for a free consult. Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected] #tms #mindbodyconnection #mindbodysoul #mindbodyspirit #fightorflight #nervoussystem #unconsciousmind #sarno #unlearnyourpain #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #footpain #centralsensitization #sibo #ibs #carpaltunnel #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #insomnia #thewayout #somatictracking #somatictherapy #painfreeyou #neuroplasticpain #neuralcircuitpain #subconsciousbeliefs

Mackenzie Kennedy is a massage therapist who combines her practice with mind body syndrome - slowly planting seeds for those in pain to start understanding the role the brain has in symptoms. In this interview we talk about her journey out of chronic pain and how she sees it as "the journey of being human." Her and I both trained, as practitioners, with Dr. Howard Schubiner and have remained friends ever since, although we have never (not yet) met in person. Here is her information if you want to check it out: http://Mkennedymassage.com Mac_got_your_back Instagram If you are interested in working with me to reverse your symptoms, reach out for a complimentary consultation to see if we are a good fit. Website: thoughtbythoughthealing.com Email: [email protected] #tms #mindbodyconnection #mindbodysoul #mindbodyspirit #fightorflight #nervoussystem #massagetherapy #youcanheal #thoughtbythoughthealing #sarno #unlearnyourpain #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #footpain #centralsensitization #sibo #ibs #carpaltunnel #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #insomnia #thewayout #somatictracking #somatictherapy #painfreeyou #neuroplasticpain #neuralcircuitpain #ppda