emotional

Hi everyone, I’m new to the whole TMS journey, and I’m still trying to understand how to deal with changes in my symptoms while focusing on my emotional work. For some context: I’ve been tapering off clonazepam for about a month now. I only took it for two months, after anxiety completely...

"It turns out that our brains are constructed so that emotional injuries activate the same parts of the brain as does a physical injury and most doctors have no idea that that's true." ~ Dr Howard Schubiner "The brain causes what we think and so we think that our thoughts are ours but our...

A veces me siento confundido sobre cómo se recupera la gente. Por un lado, está el enfoque emocional, y sé que, en última instancia, esa es la razón por la que todos estamos aquí. Nuestro dolor y nuestros síntomas comenzaron en algún momento durante períodos de estrés o sufrimiento emocional, y...

‘Shooting the messenger’ and/or 'avoidance of the messenger' and other ways the primitive brain avoids doing mind/body work: The lizard/reptilian brain (one's primitive brain) uses various tactics to avoid the emotional work necessary for mind-body symptom relief, especially when faced with...

Rejoining and doing the SEP seems to work. Today I have had a very emotional day. Felt very fragile and vulnerable. A feeling of wanting to cry, but has not been able to. Still trying to be in my emotions the whole day. I also did a journaling session. At that time I was not sad, I was ANGRY...

Hi all, I'm relatively new here. I have a rather long history (several decades) of CFS and allergies. I won't go too much into that at this time. Over the last few years I have begun to see the importance of calming the nervous system through various exercises. I really like all the information...

I have had nightmares or what I call "stress dreams" since I was in college. That's nothing new. However, I've noticed here in my early recovery, that my dreams are much more emotional. I've had dreams where I have cried or screamed before, but these will be like huge huge sobs and blood...

Would love to hear your thoughts on deep emotional work and its' importance to recovery. 1) It's necessary, 2) It's not necessary, but a best practice, or 3) There's too much emphasis on it. The obvious answer, of course, is "it depends". The topic is probably a little controversial...

I wanted to make a post about this because I found the emotional work kind of confusing when I started doing mind body work but now that I am understanding how to actually experience my emotions; I thought I’d lend a hand to those who are still trying to figure it out! As many of you probably...

So, this is gonna be an unfiltered rant probably. Normally i edit it down, so it's easier to read but i'm just soooo frustrated right now. So here goes: I feel like shit. I've been feeling like shit since december. And it's not even purely physical, i have "good" days with relatively low...

For a long time I've been reading on this forum after I discovered that most of my symptoms where caused by TMS. This forum has been immensly helpful but now I've come to a point where my questions are so personal that I had to make a post myself. So I was diagnosed with post-concussion...

Hello everyone! My journey started back in 2007. Out of the blue, I started having lower back pain with really uncomfortable tailbone pain. I also started having a lot of increased pelvic discomfort. I already knew I had bladder prolapse and had had it since giving birth to my last child in...

This is a short excerpt from today's email newsletter/blog by Dr David Hanscom MD, followed by the "read more" link to the entire blog post on his website. The discussion is about family members and emotional triggers, written in conjunction with Dr Les Aria. "The basic problem arises from...

I've been journaling for 1-1.5 months, but I still struggle to actually express my repressed emotions on paper. Every time I write it feels like I only scratch the surface and can't actually get to the root of the problem. Moreover, sometimes I feel like I force emotions that actually aren't...

For many years, I lived my life by a few deeply personal mottos, sometimes lighthearted, but always meaningful little sayings that applied to me and my life. But when I was healing from widespread chronic pain (diagnosed as fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, Hashimotos, leaky gut, adrenal fatigue...you...

I don't know if others have had an emotional journey in what they are dealing with, but with me it has been powerful: from a minor annoyance, to minor daily pain, to significant daily pain, to all-consuming obsession and anxiety, to soul-searching and emotional roller-coasters. But I think I am...

I am rather confused about the nature of TMS. I keep hearing some TMSers focus on emotional repression as the cause of symptoms, that in order to get better you need to dig into your past trauma and relive certain memories and validate that inner child in order for the unconscious rage that...

Hello, after being introduced to TMS as an explanation for my RSI pain in both hands, I had a long overdue conversation with loved ones that was quite emotional for me (and expression of my emotions is a rare occurrence in my life). During this conversation, I experienced an extreme swelling...