Recent content by mstrong

Have you read or listened to Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life"? I am finding it to be a big help in tying my TMS together with a lot of my long-held, limiting self-beliefs. It has really helped make things concrete for me. I found reference to it in a success story on this site. Here is the...

I feel like I made my best progress over the weekend. Reading the replies here, the success stories and just getting to the gym and pushing my body, has been fantastic. Reading lupercmda's success story, I came upon the line, "This is a conditioned response". This has been very helpful for me in...

That is a great way of thinking about it - thanks!

Thanks for the great response Matt!

Pretty good day. Woke up stiff, but ignored it and went to a kickboxing class. Can feel my right hip flexor is tight and I've had a lot of experts tell me that that can cause back issues. So, telling my hip flexor and mind that I know what is going on. I'm surprised by how stubborn these pain...

Thanks Walt! I guess I've always been a worrier! Big part of the problem! I'm working on it.

So, I'm another herniated disc guy. 43 years old - at 38 was diagnosed with a herniation at L4/L5 with a transitional process at L5/S1 (Bertolotti's Syndrome). I had a microdiscectomy a couple of years ago and felt pretty good up until about three months ago. I was frustrated and despondent...