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  1. Ellen replied to the thread Chronic pain.

    We TMSers are over thinkers. We can engage in a debate about whether or not our assessment of the state of our lives is objectively...

    Dec 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM

  2. Ellen liked Rusty Red's post in the thread Book talk - Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert.

    So she worked on possible cures for AIDS and found the opiate receptor, but it also led her to work on the mindbody link, that the...

    Dec 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM

  3. Ellen liked Filipe2025's post in the thread New here and looking for help with CRPS.

    Loose your fear, loose your pain. Shift your attention to other things that you love doing. The pain will go away, I can promise you...

    Dec 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM

  4. Ellen liked Diana-M's post in the thread Chronic pain.

    I think it’s tempting to think that chronic pain is a condition —kind of like a disease. But it isn’t. It’s an expression. It’s a...

    Dec 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM

  5. Ellen liked JanAtheCPA's post in the thread How did you break your conditoned responses ? Any tips would be appreciated.

    1. Deep therapeutic breathing to engage the vagus nerve (easy to do, plenty of advice on the web) 2. Followed by rational self-talk to...

    Dec 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM

  6. Ellen liked Joulegirl's post in the thread Nuance of self compassion and standing up to the negative thoughts.

    We are all overthinkers here! ;) That's how we got into this mess of thinking instead of feeling! You will need to see what works for...

    Dec 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM

  7. Ellen replied to the thread Please help me trying to make sense of this all.

    It's the "doing" and "not-doing" of TMS recovery. I read this in the Nicole Sachs book Mind Your Body, and it provides a neuroscience...

    Dec 14, 2025

  8. Ellen liked BloodMoon's post in the thread Please help me trying to make sense of this all.

    I love this description, Ellen! The idea of the work percolating through the psyche feels so true — it really does happen slowly and...

    Dec 14, 2025

  9. Ellen replied to the thread Please help me trying to make sense of this all.

    I haven't read all the posts on this thread, but to respond to your title plea for help: My advice is to not try to make sense of it...

    Dec 14, 2025

  10. Ellen liked JanAtheCPA's post in the thread Please help me trying to make sense of this all.

    You give it time. I went back and looked at your entries on this thread and it is clear that you are all over the place in a panic....

    Dec 14, 2025
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