Recent content by Wavy Soul

Yes, in my experience GERD and similar symptoms are definitely TMS. Mine flared up almost immediately a couple of years ago after some very, very stressful life events involving danger to my partner (as I perceived it). And then, even after it all got resolved, I noticed that these digestive...

I did Gupta a few years ago and found it much more practical than Sarn (after a good 10 years on forums practicing Sarno). I'm now in a bad flare and just bought the DVDs for the Annie Hopper course. Their explanations for the intense conditions that some of us have had all our lives, core rage...

Hi p.i.h. Certainly sugar is a good boogeyman. I’m very careful with it, as well as with other pretend foods. And... the point, for me, in this exploration of TMS is to catch myself in the act of how my body-mind creates these problems, even if it does it in the context of a reaction to a...

I have to say that TMS blows my mind. It’s so tricky — I mean, have you ever tried to explain it to other people, when they go on about their “bad backs,” and so on? (Who even has back pain any more — so last millennium!) In fact, I am personally a very fashion-forward gal when it comes to TMS...

“cooking, cleaning, shopping, baking, wrapping, decorating, and the like.“ Thanks Jules! It’s good for me to remember that having a family doesn’t solve anything. Every life situation has its own stresses. I have been having a little bit of the “holiday demographic depression“ — meaning that I...

Incredible pictures, and I also had a flood. The fire alarm in my apartment complex went off — it was so loud you felt as though you were going crazy. We all rushed out to the lawn and waited for the Fire Department. I had been running my bath, and by the time we were allowed back in, it had...

OMG, this is very funny. I just wish I had someone I could tell this joke to (the opening post). It’s a bit nuanced. We are relatively small pack, those who have spent enough time understanding and applying Sarno that we could even get why this is funny. I have tried to educate my friends, not...

ha ha Bodhi Girl, sorry, you DIDN’T say that. That was my humorous/ironic/inappropriate British humor metaphor for what you said. (But I am blissed out to hear you say you COULD have said it. That is hilarious. You are my sisteranima. In fact, let’s chat some time if you feel like it. My...

What a terrific thread, from Alan’s “fuck this” to Bodhi Girl’s “yes, but respectfully speaking, we women need foreplay and afterplay, we don’t fuck” ;-) I got a lot from all of this. I have come to the Forum today, Boxing Day, because I am super-triggered after a very social Christmas Day...

Derek: Are you Derek Sapico, under a slightly different handle? Well, I am the incarnation in a body and mind of a common ground between these two groups, and I can tell you it is extremely confusing. I have had manifestations of the CFS/TMS that, if I didn’t attend to at the level of...

Hi David, If you are still here, please don't run away! I have had a lot of experience with CFS, both in my own experience and that of people I have worked with as a therapist for 35 years. I'm glad to see you are familiar with Sarno's work, enough to post here. I understand that it really does...

Oh Jeez - I feel a bit busted. I too have gone on that Phoenix Rising Forum. I understand the come-from of CFS folk being frustrated with people throwing the emotional or cognitive diagnosis at them, which can feel like people not understanding the physical intensity of the life-threatening...

Wow - TT is here and SteveO has a new book. I’m glad I dropped by. I’m feeling like crap, but oh well. I think I’ll order the book right away.

Ah yes, Ashok. What a lovely man, and what a brilliant program. I went to LA a few years ago to do it. I must pull out and dust off my DVD set if I still have it after several moves. I never watched them, but I did the seminar and really, it’s quite an incredible way of understanding the whole...

Of course that is a great list, but could also be––ah!––a little––stress-inducing–– to anyone with perfectionist tendencies (like us here). A bit like believing you have to have the right diet. In my experience if I have a GENUINE, PALPABLE spiritual connection, all else is added unto me. In the...