Recent content by Alice

I did the Day 6 meditation today. I think it was helpful... I've been trying to meditate forever, and I find it very hard. But I just did this for five minutes and was able to manage and felt relaxed afterwards. After starting this SEP, I felt really good for a couple of days, but now I'm...

I know what you're saying, Walt, and I'm sure the nurse was trying to act in my best interest. But she didn't really know anything about me or the clinic (which was more of an interventional clinic that did procedures), so making a blanket statement like that made me feel like she was judging me.

I haven't actually been to many doctors for my condition, despite 4 years of suffering. This was one of my most unpleasant medical interactions, which was with a nurse, so I'm cheating a little: I started taking neurontin for my neck pain on the advice of a doctor family member. My PCP...

That's a hard one. My parents don't usually pressure me to GO to things (I've missed every single one of my grandparents' funerals and my only cousin's wedding), but are good at pressuring me to do other things. Like, my entire career is because my father pushed me into it. So I feel what...

I think I read that could happen. Although today i'm having some neck pain again and the other pains are gone. I woke up at 6AM feeling super anxious and (I guess) angry over a few different things. While i lay there, my neck started to hurt. It was an obvious connection, but not so obvious...

My pain seems to be significantly better in my neck the last two days, but I've been noticing other discomforts. For example, my right wrist was hurting yesterday... I tried not to panic, but then it started hurting a little today and it was harder not to panic. And of course, my IBS is...

Cricket: I'm doing the SEP now. I'm trying to be disciplined about it, although I'm going on vacation in a week and I hope that doesn't get in the way. Things are better with my husband now, so maybe that will help. Thanks for the feedback.

I'm starting to feel acceptance of the TMS diagnosis, mostly because everything in Sarno's book (rereading now) is so familiar to me. But if I do have TMS, I don't feel convinced it means I'll get better. If TMS is caused by anger or repressed emotions but you still have those emotions, can...

You painted the whole house?! That is amazing! Right now, that's an impossible dream to me. I am afraid to use certain forks to eat with because I'm worried they are too heavy and will make my pain worse. It sounds so ridiculous writing it down, but I really think that way now. I think I...

Hi npoise, I am on Day 1, and I almost cried while watching the video so I really hope it is okay.

I first read Sarno's book about two years ago (I've had neck pain for four years now) and I wasn't ready to accept any of it. Things got better for me for a little while (although not gone), but after receiving a major life stressor, I was suddenly worse than ever again. I googled, "How I...