Recent content by Cactusflower

Hi Elysa: It's good to know more Canadian coaches and mental health professionals are out there doing this work. Not long ago I told a friend about TMS, she had a hard time accepting it because we couldn't find anyone doing this work in Canada at the time. She accepts it now and is doing great...

Love that you are moving away from focusing, talking about and naming or describing the physical symptoms and focusing on your emotional world. Recognizing that you can stop your reactions to the heaviness is stepping out of the victim roll you may have never realized all that unexpressed...

"When your brain is already sensitised and panicked about money, that physical shock can easily be interpreted as another layer of danger—a double whammy, if you will—kicking off a classic TMS symptom flare-up that could easily explain your lower back pain." I second this idea. Right now my...

@Patty Cakes You don't need to know why you want to cry. Just do it, feel it. "Sometimes I feel like I'm just losing my total self and it feels very frightening". A TMS professional once told me that when it feels like you are falling apart, you are actually falling together. The process of...

"setbacks" are common. Whatever this "busted" idea is, it will benefit you to drop it. As you understand more of the role of the TMS phenomenon, you'll understand why we sometimes get pain. Sometimes that just takes a lot of repetition. You face the triggers to deal with the triggers and they...

@Kira790 Thank-you for this recovery story and a frank discussion of how the body can do the things it does, how the mind follows those things but also how through a difficult experience, your body can still heal.

Yes! The power of suggestion! Today there may be some mid-back pain, tomorrow maybe not. Don’t freak out, just let your brain know you are sussing these reactions out! Dr. Google is not your friend, and other people’s symptoms, reactions, emotions, thoughts etc. are not yours.

I think you should keep considering your emotions around these topics, but I also think you should take not being taken up on "hitting on" girls too personally. All of the women may have had their own reasons for not responding, reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with you personally...

There is the Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook, or the free program on this site https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Structured_Educational_Program (Structured Educational Program), Dr. Schecter also offers a workbook. My suggestion is also to educate yourself a little more on TMS - that might help you...

My suggestion is to stop this type of rumination. Just be with where you are today. I'm not sure who is telling you "these neuro pathways are paved so deep" type of thing, but whomever is saying this, avoid them. If it's your inner self-talk, then this is a great time to begin observing thoughts...

Another wonderful piece of information that was imparted to me on this journey was to treat TMS like the "peeling of an onion". We may have long (or short) periods of time we are doing better: wonderfully well, and then at times we might struggle and it can seem to come "out of the blue". Part...

What a wonderful thing!

Yes. All you have written, but it’s not just the through the current pain experience, it’s through your life before too - the things that brought you the place you are at now. I envision the work as wholistic and liken it to a crumpled ball of paper held in a clenched fist. Open the fist...

I was once told by a very wise woman that doing this work often makes us feel like we are falling apart but the truth is that we are actually coming together.

My suggestion is to keep your mind open, and try not to worry or judge those who need medication - for now or for a time. Try not to worry or judge “wrecking” this is all focusing on a negativity that is the suffering. Try your best, even if it is a struggle, to engage in things you enjoy or...