I stumbled upon Dr. Schubiners book about two years ago and it changed my life. I’ve suffered headaches and migraines my whole life and only now am I making any progress with no drugs (except advil sometimes when I can’t get a handle on it)! I am truly grateful for him. Can’t wait to watch the film.
Congratulations, and how wonderful it feels to take control of your pain and help yourself heal! Hearing these testimonies gives others hope they can do the same.
Thank you for addressing the paranoia about food! For years I followed the path of believing if I eliminated foods from my diet I would heal the fibro until I was eating practically nothing. Now I see people around me who do this and how counter productive it is for them. Sure eat right and healthy and take care of the animal but obsessing about everything you put in your mouth IS the problem
Isn't journaling surprisingly effective? I sometimes feel like the challenging feelings move out of my body as I write them down, and I begin to think more creatively about problems by the end. If there's any left, I shake them off and dance them out. Transforming stress and trauma through writing, art, or creativity is amazing powerful.
When I developed what was diagnosed as IBS as part of MEFM, I was experiencing hellish and inescapable stress. I also realized intuitively that part of the problem was childhood bullying, being punched in the stomach every day for a month by a much-bigger boy. That trauma, a trauma therapist later told me, was trapped in the muscles. However, when I went to a allergist and immunologist, an elimination and challenge diet showed that I had no problem digesting milk (which showed as an allergy using tradition scratch tests), but I DID react to wheat, corn, and raw foods. Eliminating those gave me a flat happy tummy for years. When life is low stress, I can eat them in small amounts. Was my gut reacting due to the overactive fight or flight, old trauma and new stress? Is that structural, or can I eat what I want? I'd love to know your recommendations on that.
Hello, thanks for your question, and I'm glad to hear that you've seen some improvements in your physical symptoms by working with trauma and emotions. I am not a doctor and this is not medical or mental health advice. But to address your question about food elimination diets, when I've listened to mind-body expert physicians at the PPDA (psychophysiologic disorders association) like gastroenterologist David Clarke, MD and internist Howard Schubiner, MD talk about food allergies and food elimination they tend to regard Celiac disease and lactose intolerance as the primary "hard-wired" food intolerances. Most other intolerances can in theory be learned or unlearned. There's lots of playful ways you can run experiments and tests with re-introducing fearful foods, for example, including minuscule traces of trigger foods that couldn't possibly trigger overwhelming symptoms. If you still get a strong body reaction, that is a sign that stress and predictive coding are playing a strong role in triggering symptoms. We collected lots of wisdom about unlearning food elimination diets and working with IBS in this webinar here: th-cam.com/video/5eBct0o4AfM/w-d-xo.html And this site: www.thismighthurtfilm.com/irritable-bowel-syndrome Also we recommend our feature length film, This Might Hurt. Wishing you luck! Thanks, Kent
@@ThisMightHurt Thanks. Kent, for taking the time to respond! When not highly stressed, I could eat all foods I was sensitive to once every 4 days without any problem. Only if I ate them for days did my gut react. I'm DELIGHTED to hear I will ultimately be able to reintroduce all the foods! I've read Alan Gordon's book The Way Out. I'm doing somatic tracking and working to rewire a nervous system that's been hypervigilant since a traumatic birth. This gives me hope. I beat it once for 6 years when life was less stressful. Now I know that the 4 years of inescapable stress and my brain's reactions created the problems, then I know I can learn to calm and rewire the brain that reacts even when I deal with issues calmly. What a service you do for the world with this film, Kent! Many thanks - what a lot of hope you give those of us with chronic pain. I'm very grateful for the work you all do.
@@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320 Thank you so much for the kind words, and I'm wishing you the very best! If you look in Michelle Wiegers interviews (she's a mind-body coach), she is a wonderful resource for unlearning food triggers/intolerance. She found that it was actually much harder -for her- to unlearn food triggers than to unlearn pain. So, wishing a rapid recovery, but also wishing you patience if that ends up being needed. - Kent
@@ThisMightHurt Oddly, I had the opposite reaction. When I got off benzos (sleeping pills) that were harming my health instead of helping, my gut began healing rapidly. I began adding foods one at a time, and went from being able to digest only 4-6 foods when on 5 medications - to over 400! Pain, however, kept coming back to haunt me. (Perhaps it depends on your trauma and the kinds of stresses in your life.) It took years of inescapable stress for the IBS symptoms to return. But with these wonderful resources that you offer, Kent, and books like The Way Out by Alan Gordon and Peter Levine's trauma books, I know I can get my happy flat gut back - I just have to get through a few more months of that damn stress! But even now doing this work I'm getting small results. These videos are invaluable - your story and that of the others who had mind-body pain inspires us all! Thank you for having the courage to share your story, Kent, and for making these films. They are vitally important, and could help millions of people and should be available on PBS and in libraries. I will be raising awareness of your work wherever I can. - Linda
@rudy almeras Thanks for your question. Yes, it is possible to have both neuroplastic and structural-based symptoms, even in the same place in the body. Many people have both, and they do brain retraining and emotional processing for the neuroplastic components of their suffering, and medical treatment (e.g. drugs, procedures) for the structural ones. It's worth noting that since most doctors don't understand what neuroplastic pain is, they commonly give people structural diagnoses that are incorrect. In their minds and in medical school training, structural tissue damage is the only possible explanation for chronic pain and fatigue and other symptoms. So that's why it can be helpful to learn the FIT criteria for assessing your own symptoms, and if necessary, to seek out additional opinions from so-called mind-body informed practitioners. We detail each of these steps, and link to a directory of clinicians on our website at www.thismighthurtfilm.com/unlearningpain Wishing you luck with your recovery!
@@RUDEMASTER Hi Rudy, while we ourselves don't have a podcast, we have a couple videos of live demonstrations of how professionals do this work. You can find in this Pain Reprocessing Therapy playlist: th-cam.com/video/Lw1D_UvzIDA/w-d-xo.html
@@RUDEMASTER As for podcasts, there are examples of client-professional interactions in the following podcasts: Freedom From Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW and Dan Ratner’s Crushing Doubt (on youtube). We also suggest listening to the guided somatic tracking, which there are numerous ones on TH-cam. Thanks and good luck!
Dr Howard and Nicole Sachs rock. Thank you guys ! Great question abt inflammation ! There is no hurt in trying TMS healing stuff, but u have to believe you can get better don't you ? I think Nicole said that. If u doubt, if u think, oh yeah everyone else can heal but I am "too" bad etc...u will not heal doing this.
Im glad that people are picking up the ball and running with it for dr Sarno. This message must not die.
I stumbled upon Dr. Schubiners book about two years ago and it changed my life. I’ve suffered headaches and migraines my whole life and only now am I making any progress with no drugs (except advil sometimes when I can’t get a handle on it)! I am truly grateful for him. Can’t wait to watch the film.
is there any youtube link for the video?
Congratulations, and how wonderful it feels to take control of your pain and help yourself heal! Hearing these testimonies gives others hope they can do the same.
Thank you for addressing the paranoia about food! For years I followed the path of believing if I eliminated foods from my diet I would heal the fibro until I was eating practically nothing. Now I see people around me who do this and how counter productive it is for them. Sure eat right and healthy and take care of the animal but obsessing about everything you put in your mouth IS the problem
Thanks for this. Amazing. So grateful to Dr Schubiner and Nicole Sachs.
I'd always dismissed the 'journaling' idea.
@nancy So glad journaling has been helpful for your symptoms. Thanks for sharing!
Isn't journaling surprisingly effective? I sometimes feel like the challenging feelings move out of my body as I write them down, and I begin to think more creatively about problems by the end. If there's any left, I shake them off and dance them out. Transforming stress and trauma through writing, art, or creativity is amazing powerful.
This is such an interesting video! Thank you 🙏
Thanks, Vicki, so glad you enjoyed it!
When I developed what was diagnosed as IBS as part of MEFM, I was experiencing hellish and inescapable stress. I also realized intuitively that part of the problem was childhood bullying, being punched in the stomach every day for a month by a much-bigger boy. That trauma, a trauma therapist later told me, was trapped in the muscles. However, when I went to a allergist and immunologist, an elimination and challenge diet showed that I had no problem digesting milk (which showed as an allergy using tradition scratch tests), but I DID react to wheat, corn, and raw foods. Eliminating those gave me a flat happy tummy for years. When life is low stress, I can eat them in small amounts. Was my gut reacting due to the overactive fight or flight, old trauma and new stress? Is that structural, or can I eat what I want? I'd love to know your recommendations on that.
Hello, thanks for your question, and I'm glad to hear that you've seen some improvements in your physical symptoms by working with trauma and emotions. I am not a doctor and this is not medical or mental health advice. But to address your question about food elimination diets, when I've listened to mind-body expert physicians at the PPDA (psychophysiologic disorders association) like gastroenterologist David Clarke, MD and internist Howard Schubiner, MD talk about food allergies and food elimination they tend to regard Celiac disease and lactose intolerance as the primary "hard-wired" food intolerances. Most other intolerances can in theory be learned or unlearned.
There's lots of playful ways you can run experiments and tests with re-introducing fearful foods, for example, including minuscule traces of trigger foods that couldn't possibly trigger overwhelming symptoms. If you still get a strong body reaction, that is a sign that stress and predictive coding are playing a strong role in triggering symptoms. We collected lots of wisdom about unlearning food elimination diets and working with IBS in this webinar here:
th-cam.com/video/5eBct0o4AfM/w-d-xo.html
And this site:
www.thismighthurtfilm.com/irritable-bowel-syndrome
Also we recommend our feature length film, This Might Hurt.
Wishing you luck!
Thanks,
Kent
@@ThisMightHurt Thanks. Kent, for taking the time to respond! When not highly stressed, I could eat all foods I was sensitive to once every 4 days without any problem. Only if I ate them for days did my gut react. I'm DELIGHTED to hear I will ultimately be able to reintroduce all the foods!
I've read Alan Gordon's book The Way Out. I'm doing somatic tracking and working to rewire a nervous system that's been hypervigilant since a traumatic birth. This gives me hope.
I beat it once for 6 years when life was less stressful. Now I know that the 4 years of inescapable stress and my brain's reactions created the problems, then I know I can learn to calm and rewire the brain that reacts even when I deal with issues calmly.
What a service you do for the world with this film, Kent! Many thanks - what a lot of hope you give those of us with chronic pain. I'm very grateful for the work you all do.
@@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320 Thank you so much for the kind words, and I'm wishing you the very best! If you look in Michelle Wiegers interviews (she's a mind-body coach), she is a wonderful resource for unlearning food triggers/intolerance.
She found that it was actually much harder -for her- to unlearn food triggers than to unlearn pain. So, wishing a rapid recovery, but also wishing you patience if that ends up being needed. - Kent
@@ThisMightHurt Oddly, I had the opposite reaction. When I got off benzos (sleeping pills) that were harming my health instead of helping, my gut began healing rapidly. I began adding foods one at a time, and went from being able to digest only 4-6 foods when on 5 medications - to over 400!
Pain, however, kept coming back to haunt me. (Perhaps it depends on your trauma and the kinds of stresses in your life.) It took years of inescapable stress for the IBS symptoms to return.
But with these wonderful resources that you offer, Kent, and books like The Way Out by Alan Gordon and Peter Levine's trauma books, I know I can get my happy flat gut back - I just have to get through a few more months of that damn stress! But even now doing this work I'm getting small results.
These videos are invaluable - your story and that of the others who had mind-body pain inspires us all!
Thank you for having the courage to share your story, Kent, and for making these films. They are vitally important, and could help millions of people and should be available on PBS and in libraries.
I will be raising awareness of your work wherever I can. - Linda
Is it possible to have both structal pain n neuroplastic pain?? cause I think I have both??
@rudy almeras Thanks for your question. Yes, it is possible to have both neuroplastic and structural-based symptoms, even in the same place in the body. Many people have both, and they do brain retraining and emotional processing for the neuroplastic components of their suffering, and medical treatment (e.g. drugs, procedures) for the structural ones. It's worth noting that since most doctors don't understand what neuroplastic pain is, they commonly give people structural diagnoses that are incorrect. In their minds and in medical school training, structural tissue damage is the only possible explanation for chronic pain and fatigue and other symptoms. So that's why it can be helpful to learn the FIT criteria for assessing your own symptoms, and if necessary, to seek out additional opinions from so-called mind-body informed practitioners. We detail each of these steps, and link to a directory of clinicians on our website at www.thismighthurtfilm.com/unlearningpain Wishing you luck with your recovery!
@@ThisMightHurt Thank you so much I will definitely look into it
@@ThisMightHurt I'm curious do you guys have apple Podcasts where you can listen in on conversations between professionals or or clients???
@@RUDEMASTER Hi Rudy, while we ourselves don't have a podcast, we have a couple videos of live demonstrations of how professionals do this work. You can find in this Pain Reprocessing Therapy playlist: th-cam.com/video/Lw1D_UvzIDA/w-d-xo.html
@@RUDEMASTER As for podcasts, there are examples of client-professional interactions in the following podcasts: Freedom From Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW and Dan Ratner’s Crushing Doubt (on youtube). We also suggest listening to the guided somatic tracking, which there are numerous ones on TH-cam. Thanks and good luck!
Dr Howard and Nicole Sachs rock. Thank you guys ! Great question abt inflammation ! There is no hurt in trying TMS healing stuff, but u have to believe you can get better don't you ? I think Nicole said that. If u doubt, if u think, oh yeah everyone else can heal but I am "too" bad etc...u will not heal doing this.
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