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Thanks, Walt. I'll check back on it after awhile and take another stab. Tonight, I really enjoyed the interview with Ms. Sachs. I'm getting her book for my daughter for Christmas. She speaks in a way that I think will reach my daughter, who has a lot of pain and undealt-with emotions, but hasn't...

FYI, moderators, the link on this page is bad, so unable to listen to the podcast or do the associated journal exercise. http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Educational_Program_Day_37 http://www.thehealthymind.com/2012/04/18/existential-therapy-how-anxiety-leads-to-physical-pain/

Have you been overly critical of yourself lately? How and why have you done this? I have indeed been critical of myself lately. Around all the things I "have" to do and so little time to do them in--but I must! I must! I only have about three hours in the evenings after work before bed time...

Thanks, Walt. I'll take a look.

Well, let's see. The pain has definitely diminished over the week. I'd say my pain at its highest was maybe a 6 on a 1-10 scale. It was already decreasing when I started in on Day 1--maybe at a 4. Lots of changing when the pain showed up--on the weekend when I was home, my back pain eased when I...

I guess I'm feeling pretty lucky in all of this, because I don't feel like TMS pain has been ruling my life. The only time I ever felt the need to contact a doctor in all this was during my initial back pain, 15 or so years ago. She talked about things like needing to be careful the rest of my...

Question To Ponder: When was the last time you exercised or did another physical activity? What was this activity? How did it make you feel physically and emotionally? If it is has been a while since you last exercised, why? I've been using a treadmill for exercise, which I was happy to give a...

Dan here. What pops into my head with this question is the idea of having a fuller, freer emotional life. I'm recognizing how repressing so much negative emotion has limited my experience with positive emotion, as well, and I'm looking forward to freeing up my feeling life. w00t!

Hi. My name is Dan. I first experienced TMS symptoms about 15 years ago and, after several weeks of back pain, came across Sarno's Healing Back Pain. My pain quickly disappeared as I read the book, and when the pain disappeared I stopped working the program (about a week in). The pain has...