Recent content by blackdog

Hi Baseball65, You are a very determined person. That sets a great example for those of us still healing. I like your description of using your anger at Dave to shut down your pain/fear responses. Sarno wrote of using a 'recurrent irritation' such as a financial trouble. Do you think that...

TMS was developed with rage as the central emotion driving pain. Other emotions, such as sadness, can also drive TMS. Uncovering some of this by seeing an evidence-based therapist for trauma (you definitely had a traumatic past) may well help you. ACT, IFS, DBT, even trauma-based CBT may be...

I've been listening to this Claire Weekes audio recording several times a day recently: . Her degree of hopefulness and encouragment is awe-inspiring and soaking in the amount of wisdom takes repeated listenings. I don't see myself stopping anytime soon, as I get another nuance or deeper...

Thank you TG957! I will read through this several more times, as there is a lot here. I have always pushed myself hard as well. I remember a couple of decades ago when I last road a bike. I thought I'd give it a try, as I hadn't for awhile due to pain while riding (way before I hade ever heard...

Thank you ComaDivine34 and JanAtheCPA, I appreciate both of your respsonses. Negative self-talk is a huge part of my pain and anxiety cycles (cycle?). I am noticing some of it and seeking an appropriate therapist that knows how to use ACT or DBT to help me see more. For now, I am...

Hello Everyone, There seem to be two means for making a way through life: 1) By using fear and pain as a means of propulsion. Escaping from one moment into the next to get away from the one you are in (because it hurts too much emotionally and/or physically). This becomes overly...

Hi ComaDivine34, I first heard of the cold shower method several years ago, I think possibly when reading David Goggins' book (that guy is hard core :)). I took initial steps toward trying them, but I don't rememebr why I stopped. I have so much work to do on TMS - I am currently working...

Thank you guys. I do think there is anger and that is why I submitted the post. It's just that sadness is coming up more. What you all said makes a lot of sense though. I am watching out for depression and feared I was going inot it a couple of times, but I came back out. I am doing a lot...

For today's qtp, it asks what changes could be made to the SEP. I think one thing would be a brief introduction to some of the modalities or tools that people use other than journaling. Not in an attempt to suggest anything in particular, but just so that people new to this can know what is...

Hey all, I am nearing the end of the SEP and worked on Day 38 yesterday. During Forest's interview with Nichole Sachs, LCSW they said (paraphrasing) "there are all of those emotions, but what you really need to get out is the anger." I have noticed that in my journaling it has been...

Hello TMSwiki, If I could change one thing about my life, that would in turn change all kinds of things, it would be that I would be a person who knows well the art of acceptance and patience. What those qualities must do for a life when they are well learned must be quite astounding...