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Hi all, I just wanted to share as I haven't been on here for a while (for good reasons!) I am doing so much better. My flares have reduced massively from daily to not back up to the 10/10 flares. My daily pain has turned down to few hours rather than 24/7. My pain symptoms (neck...

I know I’ve only been practicing this for a short time—trying to live my life and not respond to symptoms with fear. I do what I can: I breathe, I remind myself that I’m safe. Sometimes it feels like that’s all I’m doing, and I wonder if it’s enough. At the core, doesn’t this work revolve around...

Does anyone grieve the life they had before chronic pain? Or fear the future? Have you got any tips for moving on healthily? I was so fit and strong, played sports and did adrenaline chasing things. I’m a shell of the person I was. I really want to stop grieving that? Before my injury I...

This video just showed up on my feed. It’s by Anandi Sano. (Never heard of her.) It enthralled me. The answer is the body. It’s about being fully present in the body and how that can heal your nervous system. Your body knows what to do. It encapsulates so many things I’ve been learning and...

Hi all, Been a little less active on here as started a new job helping people with chronic pain learn about the role of brain and apply mindbody techniques (we are soon piloting the first ever Emotional Expression and Awareness Therapy Pilot in the UK which is very exciting!) I recently...

The biggest one for me would likely be my job. I would love to find something I enjoy more, but there is a lot of flexibility where I work now, plus profit sharing, and I make a good amount of money, which considering I'm the main breadwinner in the house, is kind of necessary. My job is a huge...

Yesterday one of my best friends (two, actually, they used to be married and had kids together but are divorced now) lost his 21 year old daughter in a car crash. He was in the car as well and his son/her brother was driving. They both survived but she was pronounced at the scene. Things like...

...where the TMS is not much known BUT YouTube is a great source of info and I bought all the books from Dr Sarno, Nichole Sachs, H.Shubiner. I have been in talking therapy with many different psychologists since 2008. Tried Yoga as my first mind-body approach and then discovered mindfulness...

I appreciate that this article (in the following link) is essentially about Martha Beck advertising her new book that became available to today in the UK, but I really liked the idea of swapping the anxiety spiral for a creativity spiral to relieve chronic anxiety and fear and lots of other...

This has really taken a big toll on my life in all aspects and I'm writing this to see if anyone has any advice for me as I'm lost at the moment. To give some background on me, I'm a 21-year-old college student who had found TMS through an elbow injury I had a few years back. Back then I had no...

Here’s some quotes from a book called at last a life. it’s about anxiety and panic recovery but also talks about pain “When a thought enters your head, the moment a negative emotion is attached to it and you are probably having that sickly feeling in the pit of your stomach, you need to...

Below is Angie who was about to be moved into a hospice to die due to how sick she was until a surgeon who had dealt with her before got back in touch. Now she’s 100 percent better and living life, all due to TMS. Some of the things she had were POTS, MCAS, h-EDS among several others.

Hi everyone, I have this new form of panic attack going on that happens during sleep. It’s basically my entire body burning and being clenched. I wake up certain that I’m dying. It takes me awhile to come to and realize, “Oh, it’s only you, TMS.” Still, even being aware of it, I’m ultimately...

Figuring out that self-consciousness and embarrassment are a big aspect of my TMS. I’m embarrassed to let my grown kids see how weak I am (can’t walk well due to symptoms.) I’m embarrassed to let friends see me. I’m embarrassed to let neighbors see me. I’m even embarrassed around my husband...

Just finished reading Willard Gaylin MD's magnificent The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life (1984), one of the self-acknowledged source books for Dr Sarno's TMS theory. Needless to say Gaylin provided Dr Sarno with the idea of rage repressed into the unconscious that becomes an unconscious...

Somewhere in a post in the past few days I read that a well known member recommending against reading Healing Back Pain as well as Mind over Back Pain, both by John Sarno. I read that this website is only in honour of John Sarno, and not necessarily a full blown enthusiastic support of all of...

OMG. I'm 48 and Yesterday I told my mother "don't speak to me like that and leave my home". As usual she was like a witch but I did it. As far as I remember she has been angry. Not me. And now I feel so sad and my TMS brain says "you're in danger" "you're in danger" and Im fighting against...

Ever since I was young, I would get the occasional migraine. It wasn’t too bad, as it typically happened about once every couple of months, I’d lock myself in a room, and be all better the next day. However, in August of 2020, I started getting worse migraines. They weren’t great, and were...

if you started resuming your normal activity again, what steps did you take to get there? how did you get rid of fear associated with these activities?

Unsent Dear ***, You disgust me when I see you arrive I'm afraid that you stink, glue, be dirty, stagger, roll your eyes, get angry. I live in apprehension of your symptoms, and feel you weak, downcast, sad, old. I'm so sorry to see you like this. I feel like I can't do anything more for you...