Recent content by tigerlilly

So glad to hear the news, Steven! You are proving TMS to yourself. Suggestion? Start an "Evidence List." Put it in a safe place (I created a TMS folder in Microsoft Note that includes all of my journaling, my evidence sheet, Trigger/Core Issues to journal about, TMS threads that were helpful...

Hi Scozza - I read your post and related to everything you wrote. Great childhood - check. Picked on and better for it - check. Stomach issues causing a life change - check. Daddy issues - check. I also relate to your herniated disc issues. Check. In fact, I was bedridden for 7 months -...

My favorite spiritual book is the Bible. My favorite spiritual book that compliments the Bible, is the book "What Does the Bible Really Teach?" I'm all about knowing truth. If Dr. Sarno says that "knowledge is the penicillin to healing TMS," then I feel that way about the Bible. I want to have...

Hi Dom - I, too, procrastinated with journaling. Why? Same reasons as you. But really? Because of FEAR. Which is the exact bottom line reason I was in so much bedridden pain in the first place. I started a journal and I made a list of all the possible "triggers." And then I started...

Hi catherinet - I'm sorry you are also experiencing this kind of physical pain, and yet you are already ahead of the game because you are recognizing where it is coming from. Kudos to you! I, also, had a hard time relating to the word "rage." I'm not an angry person by nature. But I had to...

That's great news, lolaskip! I'm happy to hear that you were able to have less popping now that you are "onto" your brain's sneaky tricks!! Not that it will stop trying to fool you, mind you. It might even offer up more pain, in a desperate attempt to pull you back into the fear vortex and to...

The old nerve pathways of pain will always be there, programmed in our brains and waiting for an opportunity to rear their ugly heads. What we choose to allow our brains/mind to do with those signals is entirely up to us. It's empowering to learn that we can control those pathways - to make a...

Hi lolaskip - SI joint dysfunction, leg length changes, etc. It's all farce. The short answer to your question is, yes, I have had amazing success in treating my symptoms as TMS. In fact, I would say I am 99% pain free - I can function as a normal human being and there really isn't anything...

Really excellent thoughts posted above. To add to these thoughts, this wonderful article on the words we choose, by Dr. Habib Sadeghi showed up in my inbox. The thoughts marry perfectly with this thread on showing ourselves self-compassion. FIGURE OF SPEECH: HOW THE WORDS WE CHOOSE SHAPE OUR...

I echo Msunn and Gigi's thoughts - welcoming the pain and telling my brain to give me its best shot has done wonders for me in my journey to healing. When you ACCEPT the pain and don't fight it, there is no challenge left for your id/ego/superego to fight out. When you ACCEPT, the fear will...

I think that because most of us have the "perfectionist" personality trait as part of TMS, we have the tendency to want to learn everything about TMS and then master it perfectly - to execute our healing so perfectly - better than anyone else has ever done it. All to our own demise, of course...

Mala - Mermaid has some wise words of advice - don't ignore the pain. Accept it. At the end of Claire Weekes' audio tape for nervous illness, she says that if she had to summarize the entire book into one word, it would be "ACCEPT." Accept, accept, accept. By doing this, you are neutralizing the...

nowtimecoach - that is AWESOME!!! So happy for you!! Conquer the fear = Lose the pain. And you are doing it! I have a feeling your physical pain is quickly going to dissipate from this point forward. You are living life as an adventure and you have already proved to your brain that you aren't...

This is inspiring to me, Dani. My husband and I are daring to go on vacation to the beach for a week - between his foot pain and not being able to walk much, and my not being able to sit much, it should be an interesting adventure. I welcome the opportunity for the pain to take a vacation - it...

Thanks Walt - I actually do all of those things. Sometimes the pain is so intense that all I can do is try to float through it. I keep a picture of myself when I was a child on my desktop (or a picture of my husband and myself) - that is helpful. And keeping the affirmations close in mind ("I...