Recent content by joyous_healing

The title pretty much says it all. I have been feeling really frustrated this past week about my healing and the back and forth of it,, mostly because I am exhausted by the pain. last week I I had a profound experience where for 4 days straight I felt nearly no pain at all. (typically I have...

in this moment I think I am hitting a bit of a plateau. I feel like for this first few weeks i was super internally motivated, inspired, hopeful etc etc. But now I am noticing it is a bit harder to get myself to that level still. Even though I do not want the doubts, I still have doubts about my...

The other night I had my first concious moment of connecting my pain to my emotional state. I was having a hard conversation with the person I am currently dating and was having a really hard time expressing myself(this is quite normal for me as I've discovered one of my defense mechanisms is...

I used to start this story by saying that my pain started with back pain back in 2015 but the more and more I learn about TMS and its patterns I am realizing that my TMS actually started when I was only just 14 years old. Such a baby:( I have always put a lot of pressure on myself. I do feel...

I have been trying to read or listen to a healing success story every few days or so as I embark on my own TMS journey and today I happened across yours. And I just have to say thank you. it has been probably about 8 years since I have gone on a run due to chronic pain and it has been my goal...

Oh yes I definitely can relate to this! it has felt so frustrating for years wondering, why am I the only person these doctors have ever seen with this problem? how do they not know whats happening to me? it was honestly terrifying sometimes because it was just so crazy that I of all people had...

Thank you so much all for your insightful and caring responses. This is my first time participating in an online forum of any kind and so I'm even nervous typing these things out and being vulnerable in this way because I never have done it before. But you all are making it so possible, so thank...

Oh boy all of the different things I have been told by doctors....there have been countless moments throughout the past ten years that I have been brought to tears by what doctors have told me about my pain. One instance that comes to mind is when one of the times I was working with a...

Day 3; have you recently been physically active ? what was it? and how did it make you feel physically and emotionally? Yesterday I went swimming with a friend. I suffer from a lot of chronic pain in my bak and down my lewg into my foot, but recently I have been dealing with extra pain as the...