Recent content by Layne

Thank you for your reply!!! I apologize for the very delayed response. I have four jobs and two classes and life has been busy busy!! I haven't tried talking to the parts again. I have found that my daily 15 minutes meditations are difficult to maintain, much less an hour or two of parts work...

Hello all! I was around a while back, but since getting better, I have gone out into the world to pursue my dreams! My TMS symptoms were mainly digestion related and now my stomach is a tank. I can digest anything! I do have some back pain from a fall at work, but I haven't explored that too...

OMG. 1 and 2 were good but 3 and 4 totally describe the last few years of my life! So she states sensitization as a cause of the nervous illness and that it is possible to desensitize. I think that my nervous system is and has always been more sensitive than others. I know I'm not alone - I...

Thank you for your super sweet post, Leslie!!! Your suggestions are really helpful and I am going to start implementing them in my recovery. I especially appreciate the part about questioning whether or not it's your guy speaking! So helpful.

I've been following it since week 1 :D I have all the episodes on my iPhone and listen to various ones frequently. The event is absolutely amazing.

Hey guys! I haven't been around much lately... preparing for huge life changes. But I was listening to an Alan Watts lecture this morning that sparked a free-write journaling session. What sparked it was when he spoke about how a person might flatter themselves as being dutiful. In an...

I can do that sometimes and I believe it's very useful. However, during times like these, when I can look back and see that the incident was two weeks ago, I have a hard time going back there and undoing whatever thought started the "episode." Same thing with this headache I've had since...

I will try that visualization - thank you! I hadn't thought of that :)

Wow, what amazing responses - thank you! It's not just about digging; it's also about even being able to identify which emotions I'm feeling at a given time. I have a really, really hard time giving them names or even paying attention to them until they're screaming at me. And if I'm working...

Getting at that which my symptoms are covering up is like clawing my way out of a deep stone well. It's just.so.hard. I feel like it shouldn't be this hard. Can I really have developed defense mechanisms so sophisticated that it's THIS hard to get under them? Or am I making this harder than...

I have the same problem. I have gotten in trouble at work for not asking for help when I needed it - but how can I ask for help if I don't know I need it? I think the need to seem competent is so deeply ingrained that I don't know when to ask for help. I have always been very independent...

YES! Leslie!