healing insights

Shawn stevenson's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Decide to heal! cut all other options, decide that there is no other option but healing

Sara Halevi's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Commit to your self-care!

Misha Sakharoff's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Detach yourself from the goal of healing and the state of mind of striving. Dont measure your movement by time, place, speed or intentity. Measure it by the depth of your relaxation and ease,

Jeanni Kulwin's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

The wisdom is in our body. If you're like me dealing with health issues, you're likely living in your head because you don't want to be in your body. We don't want to hang out in our body, so the big takeaway is to learn how to be grounded again and how to feel safe in your body. When you can feel safe in your body, everything shifts. it's like, okay, I feel something in my stomach. I feel my chest, but I'm safe. The mantra is: body first, mind second, and so we can really learn. if we've had trauma in the past, it's not safe for many of us to feel safe in our body, so it is a process. It's learning, but that is the goal to re-learn how to ground and be safe.

Tracy Tatcher's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My advice is to start cleaning up your lifestyle as hard as that sounds when you don’t have energy and are sick and just want to take the easy way. I tell people to look at labels, look at the chemicals that their immune systems have to try to deal with. I say you’ll need to fill your cells with glorious colorful raw foods that your body can use to heal itself, give it something to work with, and it’s important for people to understand that their family members and friends might have a hard time with your choices, they may not agree and not trust that you know yourself best, I say continue on, it’s your life not theirs. It takes some experimenting to find your footing to health, but it’s a very empowering feeling knowing you can do this.

Yaffa Finlett 's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Your body is a temple so make your body clean for God to come, you got to keep your temple, your body as clean and pure as possible diet wise. Invite God in. Align with the divine especially when you are in pain. The antidote to depression is gratitude, staying in gratitude and having faith. I had to bless everything I was doing. Gratitude was my mindset. Nothing is for-granted if you make the dishes say God, thank you. I have dishes to clean. Every mundane thing is a blessing to do, and I think the best thing to overcome depression is to remain in this grateful state and to don't take anything for granted.

Phil Parker's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

There is always hope, you have more influence on your health than you think, and your brain is designed to always be changing, it just needs a little help to find new pathways to health!

Ann Miller's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

find a program that works for you and stick with it. Research the different programs that are out there and find the one that really seems to fit your personality and commit to it and work it. People with pain have tried a lot of different programs, but they'll only have tried it for like a month or so. If it doesn't work for them they jump and go to another program. They end up chasing like they chase physical modalities to healwe're used to that. We go to this doctor and then that doctor and this specialist, and then we try these herbs and then we try this chiropractor and this chasing inflames us further and ignites our cycle of pain or and fear even more. that is exactly what we do not want. This chasing is a distraction from your threats and fears or your emotions sogo ahead and, and analyze the different programs and then pick one that seems like it would be well suited for your personality, but then stick with it. It may take several months till your symptoms will vanish

Florian Van Herk's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

If you have chronic pain and tried many many things and nothing is working, please give the TMS treatment a try – it might just heal you like it did with me and so many other people.

Luke Palmer 's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Consistency is the key: it doesn't happen overnight. Be patient and consistent. People expect to heal at once with a new modality they found. It's unrealistic. Consistency and perserverence make the difference final words for anyone suffering with TSW. I believe strongly that willpower is not found, but created. You can get through, you may no be able to use your body., but you can use your mind. Remember that.

Paul Berick's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Daily symptoms were pressure on my chest, loud wheezing & rattling in the lungs, frequent coughing (often so hard to the point of sweating), and exacerbated allergy symptoms such as itchy skin, running nose, and post nasal drip. The capacity of my lungs deteriorated with time. They gave me 2 years to live. I believed them and was depressed. All gone.

David Shechter MD's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Be open and have hope. If you get stuck in a chronic condition when you feel like there's no way out and you feel like nobody has an answermaybe the mind is the way out. Look at mind as part of your body you can harness to heal or feel better. Ask yourself: what would I do if my pain or suffering went away tomorrow? What would I do with my life? what stops me from doing that now, even though my pain or suffering has not gone away. A lot of times people will say: I'll do this once the pain goes away. Well, actually, the way to make the pain go away is start taking the steps in the direction of doing what you really want to do with your life now. Even before your problem has gone away.

Mathew Embrey's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

There is only only person that can help you out of this mess and it is the person in the mirror. The little choices and little decisions you make the - really count. Baby steps not marathon my advice is to take micro steps to become the better version of yourself. This understanding that you are your own salvation is very liberating and it is very empowering. You claim your power back.

Sarah Hamilton's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Never ever give up, don't believe in your disease or in your symptoms. believe that you are completely healthy. If you can't believe in the power of meditations to heal don't think, just do them. Give no energy to any limited thought or feeling. Free your energy from unimportant issues.

Zacarry Cupples's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Have hope. The human body is very adaptable. We always change. You're not the same person you were five years ago. In fact, at a cellular level, I think, what is it about every seven years, you have completely new cells over time. that should give you hope. You hope that you can get better, and then you just have to find whatever strategy or likely strategies that are needed to help move the needle in a positive direction.

Tom Sullivan's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

I highly recommend that those in chronic pain follow Dr David Hanscom’s prescription for resolving their pain. You must learn and practice daily meditation. You will also learn how to manage emotions such as anger. Harboring anger will most definitely will cause you pain. Practice expressive writing every morning. Forgive those that have hurt or angered you. As you have those self talk discussions let those negative thoughts go. Do not ever loose hope that you will recover and cure yourself of your pain

Laura Haraka's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

There is a cure for chronic pain. There is hope out there. The most important thing to heal from chronic pain is joy. I healed from a chronic pain condition and so can you. The ways to reverse this is education and knowledge of why and how this is happening. The 2nd way is to Dial down the fear. Fear causes more pain that creates a vicious cycle of pain. If people understand they can get better - that these nerve pathways are not trying to harm them - they can control them and stop being afraid of the symptoms.. The third is the emotional piece. Showing your brain you're not afraid to feel your emotions through somatics, journaling and just feeling. The brain perceives these emotions as dangerous and sends pain as a protection. The brain doesn't know the difference between a physical and emotional threat. A threat can trigger a pain response in the brain. The 4th is lifestyle changes - decreasing your stress level, meditation, mindfulness. Doing all of this with confidence, compassion, and persistence. .

Valerie Hickman's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My tip to fellow sufferers is: trust your mind and body. Believe your autonomic nervous system is acting to protect you from your emotions because it is sensing them as dangerous. The issue here is reaching a state of total belief. Personally, it took me time to get there to really believe that nothing is wrong in my body and that the brain is creating the pain and the symptoms. My other tip to fellow sufferers is listen as much as you can to testimonial stories. For me it was huge because I would say to myself, if they could do it, I can do it too. My body is no different. Another modality that was very helpful for me was somatic tracking by Dr. Alan Gordon

Alice Rawecki's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Patience and consistency are crucial. Not much happened for me in the first 6 months. Only after 18 months of consistency with the treatmeny. I started to see the healing. Have patience and stick to it.

Dr. Jeff Axelbank's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Sometimes we have trauma in our past that we prefer not to think about, and the pain is a very convenient way to not have to think about our traumatic histories or people we're angry at or people we have conflict about. Resume normal activities as soon as you can I like what Sano says. Resume normal activities as soon as you can. That doesn't mean do it when you're in your worst pain. I think the idea is when you're finding. So, for instance, I actually have a patient now who is a runner, and I've been sort of encouraging him to run, but he has some chronic pain issue in his back and his leg, but I don't encourage him to run when his pain is at its worst. I encourage him to run when he noticed, like if he wakes up in the morning and he says, oh, my pain is not so bad this morning. That's a time to get out and run. That's a time to resume normal activities, because I think what he will then find is that if he runs that that is going to not make it worse and he's going to find it actually makes it better, and that will start to provide evidence for him that it's not a physically caused problem. If he tries to run when it's at its worst, then that may end up just being more torture for him. Ask quality questions often I will say to people, if we weren't talking about this pain, what would we be talking about if we were to put this aside? What are the emotional issues? What's going on in your life? What are the memories that this is a distraction from? And once we start to talk about that, often the symptoms just go away because you don't need them anymore, so this is a very good question. This will expose the unconscious of the subconscious thinking and emotions. Yeah. Or I put it a little differen: It allows it to percolate up. It creates a space for things, memories, thoughts, feelings to come up.

Dan buglio's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Let's not spend an inordinate amount of time with exercises and processes and daily routines to fix ourselves. No, let's be aware of the things that our brain might be perceiving as dangerous, like emotions. Instead of pushing them away and resisting, just feel them. Oh, okay. Do that over and over again. Your brain will eventually realize emotions are no longer dangerous. Therefore, we don't need to protect from them your physical body. If you're constantly walking around like this all scared and tight and guarded, your brain constantly going to be interpreting danger, so if you can learn to let the tension out and breathe a little more comfortably over time, the brain will get the idea that, wow, look at her. Not she's pretty comfortable and relaxed. Safety the mental side of it. If you're not taking your own thoughts so seriously all the time and not getting caught up in the panic thoughts and the worrisome thoughts and the catastrophic thinking, the brain has got no choice but to say, well, she's not paying attention to that. I guess she's okay, and then it gets down to the mindset. Are you freaking out less you're making progress

Bonnie Sharf's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My first tip would be to stop identifying yourself with your disease and stop believing "the story" if you've been told there's no cure. My second tip would be to find someone who you resonate with to help you to see your blind spots that keep you living in the same energy as the one that is a match for your condition, and my third tip is to develop your belief that you can heal yourself and the commitment to do the work each and every day!

Debbie Viggiano's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

I can only speak from my own experience here, but for me I believe my “disease” was borne from immense anger and frustration at a (back then) family situation that was causing chaos and upset. Indeed, I used to repeatedly tell anyone who would listen that this particular person made my blood boil! It is interesting that I ended up with a blood disease. And would you believe it, but my tormentor ended up with a blood disease too! However, whereas my body had been making too many white cells, this person was making too many red cells. I have no doubt that my reaction to this person (immense anger over a period of several years) caused this person to also be angry and react to my retaliation with their own “disease”. I suspect that chronic issues might well be related to intense negative emotions over a prolonged period.

Christine Traxler's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My advice to people with a chronic issue Read about your symptoms or your disease if you know it Pay close attention to your body (no one else will do that for you) Be your own advocate (all doctors make mistakes) and demand your voice be heard in all decisions about your health Never doubt the power of your mind/brain and its ability to help you heal Believe in whatever higher power you have faith in but don’t lose faith in yourself Your disease does not define you (ever) Your glass is always half full; ignore the empty space and it will feel even fuller than that.

Laura Shofroth's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

I have witnessed people healing from obesity, inflammation, and chronic illnesses from acid reflux to cancer. It can be done. First, is your belief system in yourself. You must believe that your body can heal naturally. Second, is life applications of healing foods and nurturing the body the way we are supposed to. Thirdly, becoming conscious of our thoughts, patterns and inner trauma that needs healing also. It’s the whole picture, the whole body.

JJ jackson's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Here’s some other big tips I’d recommend to anyone on a healing journey: Drink lots of water daily, at least 70-90 ounces or more. Find the diet that’s right for your body and mental health. Get enough sleep, which is usually 7-9 hours. Have at least one awareness practice, like meditation, yoga, tantra, journaling, conscious walks, body scanning, or any activity that encourages present awareness and focus, particularly in relation to the body, mind and emotions. Get in touch with what you want from life. This involves becoming aware of the programming you grew up with and consciously choosing to either keep or rewrite this programming. Get a clear map for growth in your life. Set a goal of how you’d like to feel in the future, what goals you want to accomplish, and what steps it would take to get there. Do the necessary work to figure out how to be grateful for who you are and what you have. Love yourself. Surround yourself with good people who help you grow and be authentic. Notice if there are certain people in your life that bring out your harmful programming. These tips will help to create a healthy relationship with your mind, body, emotions, and awareness. Being able to recognize what thoughts you’re having, how your body feels and reacts, and where your attention is being placed, allows you the ability to observe them from a neutral place and not get sucked in to reacting to them. Building awareness helps to create a sense of safety in the body and to be able to notice when the body is in a state of calm or discomfort. Investigate when pain or discomfort happens, and use the 4 M’s: Music, Meditation, Movement, and Mindset to proactively create a feeling of calm, centered focus that can be maintained

Ray Lelievre's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Begin dealing with youself in 3 ways. Body Mind and Spirit. My Spirit has been and will always be the source of my strength. My Spirit must be the power to overcome my well-intentioned sub-conscious mind and thereby heal my body. That's it!! I became willing to accept a "Higher Power" and turn my life over to it. That is the 2nd and 3rd step of recovery. The first step is admitting I was powerless over my life and could not manage it alone.

Rachel whitfield's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

My advice to people with a chronic issue Don't believe the accepted narrative. Dont waste energy being angry. Listen to those who have healed. Understand how the mind and body can work together . Realise its a journey not a destination. You may have to make some lifestyle changes rather than go back to how things were but you can learn to live a great life again and be well

Samantha Klassen's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

Acceptance is the key to healing. allow the situation, accept it for what it is, because the more that we resist it, the more it wants to take control. If you don't like something. The more you push it away, push it away. It's going to attract more and harder at you, right? So definitely do that and love it, and nobody likes when I say that. Because why would you love your pain? But it's different. It changes your chemistry and your brain when you're just like, okay, well, I love you, and I know you have to be here. Probably because I have a lot of pain psychologically somewhere in my body, there's trapped emotion, so you're welcome to be here. I love you.

Anita Marek's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

You are not helpless. You can take back the power over your life. each one of us has healing powers within.

Gayle Kirschenbaum's advice to fellow sufferes of a chronic condition:

When you are sick- go to the source and process the emotions related to that early trauma. Very often the source of the trauma is one of the parents. You are as sick as your hidden secrets.