Recent content by gwithamission

I think what’s most helpful to me has been the specific writing prompts for journaling. I had previously had a difficult time knowing what or how to write. These prompts have helped me have more appetite for free writing and excusing that “nay-sayer” voice that has blocked me from getting in...

No! I’ll look it up. Thanks for the tip!

I feel jealous of Enrique and all the folks who share about being immediately better and pain free after having read Dr Sarno’s book. I am only 16 days into this program and have noticed at times perhaps some improvement, but I still have constant, chronic pain and my life feels small. I feel...

Responding to today’s prompt: I intellectually can identify the feelings I think turn on my pain, but a) the pain seems constant, b) I live in my head, not in my body! The other day I did some journaling and thought my head was pretty quiet. Then, all of a sudden, my pain went nuts and I started...

The most disheartening thing a doctor told me recently is what I had wanted to hear a few months ago before I learned about TMS: that I should consider surgery. I had a chiropractor and orthopedic PA both tell me in the first 10 minutes of the session that surgery was the answer. Now I’m having...

A friend who had debilitating back pain encouraged me to check out the work of Dr. Sarno. I'm 3/4 of the way through Healing Back Pain and I see me on every single page. I believe without a doubt that my back pain has been caused by emotional distress. I had a bout of lower back pain years ago...