Nicole Sachs, LCSW Nicole Sachs podcast episode: everything you need to know in 57 minutes

JanAtheCPA said:
The title of my thread says it all, people. This episode blew me away.

https://www.yourbreakawake.com/podcasts/the-cure-for-chronic-pain-with-nicole-sachs-lcsw-2/episodes/2148886736 (S3 E 109: Symptom-Free For Years: Best Practices for Getting and Staying Well with Gigi Cockell)
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Thank you for sharing this! I will take some time to watch this. I know her name, am not familiar with her style- but I believe she actually worked with Sarno? That has me right there lol.
 
She did, indeed. You can find her story just by doing a search on her name and John Sarno, because she's given many interviews over the years. Or, try to navigate to the first episode of her podcast back in 2018. You can listen to all of her podcasts from her website or subscribe using any podcast app. They're all good. Too many to count now!
 
@Clover ,
She also wrote a book called, The Meaning of Truth. It details her personal journey and explains how she’s helped hundreds of people recover with her own brand of journaling, called JournalSpeak.
 
Diana-M said:
@Clover ,
She also wrote a book called, The Meaning of Truth. It details her personal journey and explains how she’s helped hundreds of people recover with her own brand of journaling, called JournalSpeak.
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I had the chance to listen to the podcast today. It is fabulous- I love its focus on doing the work on the day to day. I heard her mention that book and Journal Speak. I haven’t had a chance to go to her website yet and figure out what she is talking about with it. Do you do Journal Speak?
 
Clover said:
Do you do Journal Speak?
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I absolutely do employ emotional writing as one of my primary tools. It's typically referred to as journaling, although in the context of doing vulnerable emotional work, it is not equivalent to keeping a journal that you keep and read again - it's just the opposite. I started when I worked our Structured Educational Program (SEP) in 2011, which was a couple of years before Nicole even wrote her book, but it turns out that I had been practicing her recommendations (which she calls JournalSpeak). Specifically I had adopted the concept of writing with honesty, vulnerability, and freedom, by knowing ahead of time that I was going to destroy it immediately.

The SEP instructions at the time did not make that clear (I recently added information to the Journaling introduction to include this aspect). The SEP introduces several different methods of emotional or expressive writing, so there's something for everyone.
 
Nicole's web designers have done a great job with those unseen metrics which lead to web search results. All you have to do is search for Nicole Sachs JournalSpeak and the first hit will be her website page where she offers a free one-page primer.

We also have a Journaling primer on the main wiki: https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/How_do_I_journal%3F (How do I journal?)

Of course I bought Nicole's first book, The Meaning of Truth when it came out at least ten years ago, and I've placed my pre-order for her new book which comes out in February. Pre-orders get some freebies, and I'll always support Nicole just because her podcast is like free therapy once a week.
 
Diana-M said:
how she’s helped hundreds of people
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Hah - that was ten years ago, when she still saw patients in private practice. When she took a huge personal and financial risk and abandoned an obviously solid and guaranteed income stream in order to spread the word to the wider world, I am quite sure that the number of people she's helped is now counted in the thousands, worldwide.

(LOL, fangirl here :rolleyes:)
 
All very interesting. I will check Nicole out some more and that Journal Speak primer. I have never been good with journaling. I did see the page this site has on journaling - I actually have it as an open tab lol. However, I don’t like to reread them. I do remember reading about immediately destroying it. I purposefully write fast and pretty much illegibly. I destroy it when I fill a notebook up - and I will buy the cheapest one I can find because I know it will be gone. It sounds like there are journal prompts on the SEP (I am on day 3 today and couldn’t finish it all in one day - so will do that tomorrow). I am only in the beginning. Anyway- I am sure I will listen to that podcast again. Free therapy once a week? Who couldn’t use that! Lol. I found that podcast above very helpful and encouraging. I know I will listen to it again.
 
Clover said:
I found that podcast above very helpful and encouraging. I know I will listen to it again.
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Also look for her podcast episodes that refer to question and answer sessions from within her membership group - those cover a lot of topics and individual questions, concerns and everyday struggles.
 
Thanks @JanAtheCPA . It's excellent.

Love this quote, "The pain is not in your head, but the solution is not in your body."

And this one, "You're either gonna feel it in your heart or in your body."

Also this analogy: "Your symptoms are a warning signal to get you to slow down." Don't aim the fire hose at the fire alarm, but at the source of the fire.

And this analogy: "Somatic tracking is looking at your symptoms through a lens of safety". Like looking at wild, dangerous animals from behind the glass in a zoo.

I just pre-ordered her new book "Mind Your Body".
 
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