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A few weeks ago I started a new pain reprocessing therapy program, and it seems to be making a dent in my symptoms. After being stalled for so long, this is a welcome relief! The program is a paid membership app, which includes weekly coaching. The focus includes somatic techniques, allowing...

A year ago I started a chair exercise program and it is helping… but I was looking for more …some kind of a solution for me and I found it last week. I found this app that is a simple timer to remind you to stand up. (it’s actually called Stand Up!) it’s free. You can set the timer for how...

Hi, I’m not here posting for sympathy, but to hopefully get some encouragement. I’ve had this “levator ani syndrome” rectal aching since March of 2018. It has forever changed my life . I’ve confirmed there’s nothing medically wrong so my brain has accepted that . (Blood work, mri ...

This posting is about what has been a game-changer for me recently—it's dead simple, feels and is honest, and actually quiets my overzealous 'meerkat sentry' brain looking out for danger. It's making my residual symptoms so much more tolerable (mentally and physically) and gradually and...

This past week I’ve been feeling 50-80% less pain. Things are changing! I feel it with all my heart. What’s working: —Daily dedicated exercise (bed yoga) followed by guided meditation. —Much less focus on TMS. (Even took time off from the forum.) —Doing a lot of self-soothing. —More...

Our bodies aren’t the only thing we are, but TMS would have us think so. We are so much more. We have magical powers, like the ability to: Love Forgive Encourage Motivate Inspire Dream Create Discover Don’t let your symptoms make you lose sight of all the power you still have. Unbelievably...

Right now, I’m reading, Forgive for Good, by Fred Luskin. It’s such a great book. And it’s got me thinking. It teaches how holding resentment in your heart will hold tension in your body. And, as we know, TMS is tension. Tension causes pain. Most of my current symptoms came when my two...

In the paragraphs below is what I found to be true from my personal experience of going from being housebound and bedridden (with extremely severe muscle pain and overwhelming undue fatigue) to now functioning pretty well by comparison (albeit I am not completely mind/body symptom free). When...

I’ve been on the forum 18 months. I was working on my TMS before that, but my efforts and knowledge drastically increased from forum participation. I started here hopeless, afraid, severely depressed and in pain. Dr. David Hanscom calls it The Abyss. There’s no better word for it. Today, I’m...

Some days are bad with TMS, all kinds of bad. Some are even good. And every once in a while, things are great. That’s me today. To be honest—my symptoms haven’t drastically changed. It’s true, in the last year I’ve gone from 16 to 4 symptoms. Most all of them were caused by a jacked up nervous...

Here are the top 3 things that have given me hope and progress, recently. What are yours? Pick something fairly small that’s hard to do, and do it every day. It will get easier. Have a schedule. Don’t leave empty time to just ruminate about TMS. Find something fun to do, and incorporate it...

This forum has saved my life, a million times over. I just ran into an old post of mine and I was impressed to see how much I’ve changed from a year ago. It’s cool to see the progress. I think a lot of progress we have is invisible— because we’re going at this from two directions— internally...

I have really bad TMS— stiff numb legs, bad balance, cramped hands— for the past year I have considered taking a shower a major accomplishment. It’s hard for me to stand up for long, to move around, you name it. This week I took a vacation to the beach with my husband. I honestly do NOT know...

I need some hope and reassurance. I’ve struggled with one mind body issue after another. Years ago, I resolved panic, chronic fatigue, and bladder issues among other symptoms. In 2011, I developed severe leg pain and weakness. Flash forward, the leg pain is still there but much improved. I now...

lately I’ve been feeling frustrated. my symptoms are downright ridiculous. I’m walking slower than ever. I’m feeling really defeated. I can’t stand up to brush my teeth?! Please! But at the same time, I’m brave. I started an exercise program a couple months ago and I’m sticking with it and...

TMS is an important countercultural movement that's vehemently opposed to established health care (globally) and its emphasis on pills and unnecessary surgeries, treatments, etc. And the movement's main tenet, that all chronic pain or addictions, all repetition compulsions that land one in the...

How how how in the world did I get stuck in my house for a year?! How did I allow myself to believe that my life was over? Dr. David Hanscom calls this The Abyss. It’s the black hole of despair and destruction that TMS can put you in, and the entire thing is built on lies. First, you believe...

Action is what ultimately gets you better; not talking about getting better; not reading about getting better; not listening to things about getting better. All of those passive activities do -yes- help, but what really kicks your TMS’s butt is doing stuff. (And it is sooooooo hard! Because it...

I’m going to use this thread to update my progress on my exercise. I’m on Week 3 of my bed yoga. I’m averaging about four times a week, 15 min. each. At first I wanted to do more, but that’s all that ended up happening reasonably. Every day I’m feeling more limber and definitely stronger...

Is there anything in your life you feel like you can’t control? How does not being in control make you feel? I cannot recall many times in my life that I was just holding the reins nor times when I just let them hang free. I do know my controlling personality is happier while actually driving...