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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Yes to everything except maybe the slamming of the fists, for which I would suggest taking it out on something safer, like JournalSpeaking or a...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 28, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Sometimes repressed memories do pop back up, like in the movies. Sometimes they don't. Overcoming TMS is not so much about remembering things you...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 28, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Claire Weekes specializes in the type of anxiety that can lead to panic attacks. In that scenario, Hope and Help for Your Nerves is your bible....
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 26, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Journaling (not just journaling - check out JournalSpeak; in a journal you keep your entries. Not with JournalSpeak. In journaling you also write...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 26, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Yep - multiple doctors with no conclusive results (been there done that) points squarely to TMS. They're looking at the physical, so they will...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 26, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    In my specific case, I got that all too familiar back pinch while sitting and twisting. Previously I would get up all crooked as the pain would...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    My thinking was that there is no quick fix to apply to get out of a symptom just when it begins... until I was able to fix a tinge quickly! I...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Yep. I surprised myself when I could actually use the method to make a sudden back pain go away. I thought "it works for anxiety, but surely not...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Yes! Absolutely! 100%! I was flabbergasted to learn how similar the treatment for chronic TMS pain was to anxiety after reading Dr. Sarno's books.
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    I'm happy to converse about this constructively, and thankful that a forum like this exists to enable that! First, I honestly don't recall saying...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    To be specific, the anxiety isn't actually helping you (after all, it's anxiety), but your brain thinks it is by taking your mind off of some...
    Post by: joe12stories, Oct 25, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Since you ask for suggestions, it appears to me there are two main camps of TMS'ers: (1) firm believers in the diagnosis and (2) fearful doubters...
    Post by: joe12stories, Jul 31, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    New Program Day 17: Leaning in to Your Feelings

    Hi. TMS is not the same as anxiety. TMS (think of the T = tension) is where your unconscious self uses your brain to redirect your anger /...
    Post by: joe12stories, Jul 31, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum
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    Need help getting started

    UPDATE! Baseball65 was right! I kept my mind focused on the unsavory topic, took the anxiety that came with it, and after 4 days of absolute...
    Post by: joe12stories, Jul 29, 2017 in forum: Support Subforum
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    New Program Day 16: Emotional Repression

    Wow! The first audio clip hit me hard (in the good way). "No because". I really needed to hear this, being the over-analyzer myself. I love how...
    Post by: joe12stories, Jul 29, 2017 in forum: General Discussion Subforum