Changing your inner dialogue and how you talk to and treat yourself. There were three areas that were really important for me to change my language towards myself. 1. How I treated and talked to my pain. Talk to your pain and listen to it. (frustrated with it, angry with it, try to get rid of it) 2. How I talk to and about myself as a person. The things I believed about myself needed to change. Value, intelligence, capability. Start treating yourself with the truth about what God says about us, ...
Jun 10, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 18
If your pain is caused by nervous system dysregulation (neural circuit pain/ tms/ mind body syndrome/ or neural circuit pain) the western medical system won’t be able to resolve your pain because it is set up for those with structural issues. When your pain is not resolved by traditional doctors and specialists, it is best to work with someone who understands the mind body connection and how that results in pain or other symptoms. Listen to this podcast for more details.
Jun 10, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Indecision can throw a wrench in our nervous system. When we second-guess, fear, or doubt our ability to make good decisions it is often based in a fear that needs truth. The answer is not to push through and just start making decisions. In my discovery, it can be a tool. Pay attention to what decisions you struggle to make and use it as a guide/a map/ a compass to discover what areas of your life need freedom. You never know how God will heal you if you stop to analyze your indecisions.
Jun 10, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Fawn Response is when we try to please the very people you fear. Instead of fighting or fleeing or freezing we adapt who we are to keep everyone happy or "comfortable". This is very costly to our nervous system because we have to ignore our emotions, needs and boundaries in order to keep others happy. As children, sometimes we don't have a choice. The only way to find safety is to placate our parents or caregivers. As adults we first need to ask if we are still in danger or if our body is re...
Jun 09, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Tim is a physical therapist who believes, as Howard Schubiner does, that 85% of pain is caused by neural-circuit pain. Tim works in Pennsylvania as physical therapists helping others to understand how to heal from pain that is caused by the brain even though it feels like it's originating in the body. I wanted my listeners to start hearing the perspective of others in the medical field who have discovered the power of the brain and the types of symptoms it can control.
Jun 09, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this video I talk about how the brain is 95% hardwired by the time we are in our adult years, including our pain! But don't give up hope! Through neuroplasticity we can change how it's wired. If we don't choose to interrupt our own thoughts, emotions, behaviors and perceptions, we end up living a pre-programmed life that is based on our past experiences. In order to rewire our brain, we have to teach ourselves a new way of thinking by thinking beyond how we feel. We do not have to be controll...
Jun 09, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today I focus on your relationship with your body. It can feel like your body is against you, and you can end up hating it. Before you know it, you are divided. Your mind and your thoughts seemingly in opposition with your body. It is important to realize that you and your body are physically one, and come alongside your body to support it, encourage it, and love it.
Jun 08, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 12
When we choose how we think and how we react to things, we slowly re-wire our brains. We get to choose patience, kindness self-control. This is incredibly empowering. When you realize you can control how your brain responds, this is ultimate freedom. One of the gifts God gives us is a sound-mind, but we have to choose it. We also get to choose our boundaries, and how much we allow others to effect our nervous systems. Since our nervous systems are responding as if we are in chronic danger, we al...
Jun 08, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Listening to your pain is a very important part of healing. God uses many ways to speak to us. Our pain is no different. Why is it there? What is the underlying emotion? What is reacting to? Shame, disappointment, anger, fear, another distressing emotion?
Jun 07, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Interrupting the cyclical “fight or flight” pain response in the body includes naming it and feeling it. It’s not easy, it’s like breaking any habit. Name it: Calm, peace, confident, Joy. Feel it: What would that feel like in your body? Relaxed eyes? relaxed muscles, calm breathing, etc. Do it: Practice peace in your body by intentionally relaxing your muscles, breathing deep, etc. Deep Breathing can help us to give our brain’s a break from worrying about the past and future....
Jun 07, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Shame is a fear response that isn’t based in truth. We know who we are in Christ. But when feel shame take over as our identity, it causes us to not be able to hear God’s voice clearly and causes us to ask the question “what if?” This causes us to live in perpetual fear that makes our brains on edge looking out for ways we are “wrong”. Our brains perceive this as danger and send a warning to our body that we are not safe. BOOM. Chronic Pain.
Jun 07, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In healing, we start to peel back the layers of our pain to discover what is dysregulating our nervous system. When we people- please we get a hit of chemicals that make us feel good and acceptance. But the cost of this is high. Often times in order to keep others happy and pleased with us, we are suppressing our thoughts, opinions, beliefs and emotions. It causes our brains to be on high alert - looking for ways to avoid rejection. This hyper-vigilance causes the brain to be hyper-vigilant. Whe...
Jun 07, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We are not perfect, in fact, and we are perfectly safe being flawed. When we operate out of the fact that we have to earn acceptance, love and safety by being perfect, it causes the nervous system to be hyper-vigilant and in a constant state of earning safety. The brain will constantly be looking for rejection and disapproval. This causes hyper-vigilance and pain. The truth is, we are made perfect through the cross and we can stop striving. HIs blood makes us perfect, and therefore we can be saf...
May 26, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode I describe somatic tracking and I also lead you through a guided somatic tracking exercise.
May 25, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our brain’s use past experiences to predict how it will experience future sensations. This is called Predictive Coding. But we can interrupt this cycle, in part, by avoiding Howard Schubiner’s 6 F’s: Fear Focusing on it Frustrated by it Figuring it out Fighting it Fixing it
May 25, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode, I discuss the following: 1. What the mind-body connection is. 2.How it causes pain. 3.How the fear of structural damage causes the pain itself. 4. How this becomes cyclical. 5. Why there is hope for healing.
May 25, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Hi there, In this second video of my Thought by Thought series, I explain the mind body connection including what systems are activated when we are emotionally triggered and how that becomes chronic pain. I share a couple of my strategies for turning off the pain alarm and starting to live pain free. Here is a list of some chronic symptoms and pain that can be healed through the mind-body connection. Fibromyalgia, SIBO, plantar fasciitis, abdominal pain, IBS, Insomnia, stomach pain, foot, arm, l...
May 24, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this episode I discuss how important it is to understand the following four things. 1.pain is produced by the brain. 2. pain is a protector that the brain sends as a warning of danger to us. 3 The brain can produce pain when warning us of not only physical harm, but also of emotional harm. 4. The brain can become hyper-vigilant to feeling unsafe. The good news is that you can retrain this alarm and turn off the pain. Follow me at thought-by-thought-healing on facebook and instagram for more s...
May 24, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 1
