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  • arm pain,
  • back pain,
  • bowel,
  • buttock,
  • cartilage,
  • cervical spine,
  • chest pain,
  • elbow pain,
  • esophagus,
  • facial pain,
  • fillings,
  • foot pain,
  • genital,
  • glute pain,
  • groin,
  • gut issues,
  • hand,
  • hand pain,
  • jaw pain,
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  • knee,
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  • leg pain,
  • lower leg,
  • lower lumbar pain,
  • lymph nodes,
  • neck pain,
  • pelvic,
  • pelvic pain,
  • pelvis,
  • prostate,
  • pudendal,
  • rotator cuff,
  • sacroiliac pain,
  • sacrum pain,
  • scalp pain,
  • scrotum and testicles,
  • shoulder pain,
  • si joint,
  • stomach pain,
  • thumb,
  • tms back pain,
  • toe,
  • tooth pain,
  • wrist,

Books & Other Products

  • 8 minute meditation by victor davich,
  • a quiet mind,
  • all the rage - a documentary about dr john sarno by michael galinsky and rumur,
  • article,
  • ask a tms therapist,
  • audio books,
  • back in control by david hanscom,
  • books,
  • chronic pain: your key to recovery by georgie oldfield,
  • e-motion the movie,
  • freedom from fibromyalgia by nancy selfridge and franklynn peterson,
  • god does not want you to be in pain by eric watson and walter oleksy,
  • healing back pain: the mind-body connection by john sarno,
  • interview,
  • mind and health seminar,
  • mind body syndrome seminar,
  • mindbody video,
  • molecules of emotion: the science behind mind-body medicine by candace pert,
  • mp3 audio,
  • national geographic article,
  • neuroscience training summit,
  • pain free for life by scott brady,
  • pathways to pain relief by frances sommer anderson and eric sherman,
  • podcast,
  • presence process,
  • stroke of insight,
  • tapping world summit,
  • the brain's way of healing,
  • the connection,
  • the divided mind: the epidemic of mindbody disorders by john sarno,
  • the great pain deception: how faulty medical advice is making us worse by steven ozanich,
  • the happy secret to better work,
  • the hidden psychology of pain: the use of understanding to heal chronic pain by james alexander,
  • the lies you don't know you're telling yourself,
  • the master practice by monte hueftle,
  • the meaning of truth by nicole sachs,
  • the mindbody prescription: healing the body healing the pain by john sarno,
  • the mindfulness summit,
  • the presence process by michael brown,
  • the psychology of chronic back pain,
  • they can't find anything wrong by dave clarke,
  • think away your pain by david schechter,
  • this might hurt movie,
  • this video will hurt,
  • tms recovery program by alan gordon,
  • tms wiki structured educational program - sep,
  • touching the void,
  • tracking mrna in brain cells in real time,
  • unlearn your pain by dr. howard schubiner,
  • video,
  • waking the tiger healing trauma by peter levine,
  • what the bleep do we know,
  • when stress causes pain (conference),
  • when the body says no: the cost of hidden stress by gabor mate,
  • workshop,
  • your pain is real,

Concepts

  • automatic negative thoughts – ants – and mental chatter,
  • autonomic nervous system - ans - includes sympatetic sns and parasympathetic pns,
  • awareness,
  • belief,
  • brain plasticity,
  • conditioning,
  • cultural diseases,
  • cycle of fear,
  • diagnosis,
  • dr. sarno explaining tms healing,
  • epigenetics,
  • extinction burst - behaviorism,
  • freudian theory,
  • how the mind creates pain,
  • outcome independence,
  • placebo effect,
  • plateau,
  • rage,
  • relapse or setback or flare-up,
  • repressed feelings or emotions,
  • repressed memories,
  • repression,
  • resistance to the tms diagnosis,
  • self esteem,
  • stress-disease connection,
  • structural,
  • symptom imperative and symptom substitution,
  • the role the brain plays in pain,
  • think clean,
  • thinking psychologically,
  • tms explanation,
  • tms flare up,
  • tms relapses,
  • transference,
  • willpower,

Geographic Locations

  • boston,
  • europe,
  • germany,
  • los angeles,
  • mental fog,
  • new york city,

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  • dissasociation,
  • doctor,
  • doubt,
  • dreams and dreaming,
  • elephant in room,
  • emotional expression,
  • empathy,
  • family members with tms,
  • fear,
  • fear and anxiety about physical injury,
  • feeling,
  • food and eating,
  • for parent of son or daughter with tms,
  • forest's favorite threads,
  • forum moderation,
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  • hoax,
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  • humor,
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  • implications of tms/mindbody treatment for pain,
  • inspirational progress,
  • intuitive eating,
  • kindness,
  • laughing,
  • laughing at myself,
  • laughter,
  • letting go,
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  • tms doctor,
  • tms panel,
  • tms physician directory,
  • trust,
  • uncertain,
  • unsure about my diagnosis,
  • used in sep,
  • waking up,

People

  • abigail steidley,
  • alan gordon lcsw,
  • alex bloom msw,
  • allan abbass md,
  • andrew r. miller mft,
  • andrew weil md,
  • bessel van der kolk md,
  • brene brown,
  • brother david,
  • bruce lipton phd,
  • burning pain,
  • candace pert phd,
  • charles duhigg mba,
  • claire weekes dsc,
  • dan siegel,
  • daniel g lyman msw,
  • david clarke md,
  • david hanscom md,
  • david l. schechter md,
  • dean ornish md,
  • derek sapico mft,
  • donna jackson nakazawa,
  • dr norman doidge,
  • dr. kelly mcgonigal,
  • eckhart tolle,
  • eric "herbie" watson,
  • eric herbie watson's favorite threads,
  • eric sherman psyd,
  • ernest becker,
  • frances sommer anderson phd sep,
  • fred amir-rapid recovery workshop,
  • gabor mate md,
  • georgie oldfield mcsp,
  • herbert benson md,
  • howard schubiner md,
  • james alexander phd,
  • janette barber,
  • janice weinheimer,
  • jill bolte taylor,
  • jo marchant,
  • joe dispenza dc,
  • john e. sarno md,
  • john stossel,
  • john stracks md,
  • jon kabat-zinn phd,
  • jp sears,
  • keith mitchell,
  • kelly turner phd,
  • kristin neff phd,
  • larry berkelhammer,
  • lissa rankin,
  • lorimer moseley phd,
  • marc sopher md,
  • mark wolynn,
  • monte hueftle,
  • nick ortner,
  • nicole j. sachs lcsw,
  • peter zafirides md,
  • prince ea,
  • public figures such as actors musicians media politicians athletes,
  • richard davidson,
  • rick hansen,
  • robert jackson,
  • robert smith,
  • scott brady md,
  • sean stephenson,
  • senator harkin,
  • shannon harvey,
  • shawn achor,
  • steven ray ozanich,
  • suzanne o’sullivan,
  • tony robbins,
  • vishen lakhiani,

Frequently Asked Questions

  • are my mri findings meaningful or incidental?,
  • do i have tms?,
  • explaining tms to others,
  • how do i cope with back spasms?,
  • how do i overcome pain during sleeping?,
  • how do i reduce stress?,
  • how do i turn off the pain?,
  • how to approach life again,
  • is it tms ?,
  • is peripheral neuropathy tms,
  • should i show anger or not?,
  • what helped me the most,
  • what to do with journals,
  • what type of tms program should i follow,

Stressors

  • aging and getting older,
  • anger,
  • anxiety,
  • catastrophizing,
  • childhood,
  • conflict,
  • control,
  • current stressors,
  • emotional triggers,
  • emotions,
  • grief,
  • holiday stress,
  • hunger,
  • jobs,
  • lgbt and sexual orientation - lesbian gay bisexual transgender - homosexuality,
  • life changes transitions adjustment and readjustment,
  • menstrual cycle,
  • motherhood fatherhood parenthood children,
  • negative feelings,
  • parents family and children as a source of stress,
  • past unconscious rage,
  • perfection,
  • perfectionism,
  • re-traumatization,
  • sadness,
  • sensativity,
  • shame,
  • stress,
  • stressors,
  • the impact of childhood or other early experiences,
  • the power of fear and anxiety,
  • the upside of stress,
  • tms personality traits,
  • trauma,
  • traveling,
  • triggers,
  • vacation,

Symptoms & Diagnoses

  • acid reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease - gerd,
  • adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder,
  • adrenal fatigue,
  • allergies,
  • allodynia,
  • ankylosing spondylitis,
  • asperger's,
  • asthma,
  • benign fasciculation syndrome (bfs),
  • bladder symptoms,
  • brain fog,
  • breathing related symptoms such as hyperventilation and shortness of breath,
  • bursitis,
  • buttock and gluteal pain,
  • cancer,
  • candida,
  • canker sores,
  • carpal tunnel syndrome - cts,
  • celiac disease,
  • chondromalacia,
  • chron's,
  • chronic fatigue syndrome - cfs,
  • chronic pain,
  • coccydynia and other tailbone pain,
  • colitis,
  • computer vision syndrome - cvs,
  • constipation and tms,
  • cough,
  • cpps,
  • cystitis,
  • de quervain's syndrome,
  • depression,
  • dermatological and skin problems such as rashes and eczema,
  • disc protrusion,
  • drop foot,
  • dry eyes,
  • dystonia,
  • exhaustion,
  • fatigue,
  • fibromyalgia - fms,
  • food allergies,
  • generalized anxiety disorder - gad,
  • globus,
  • growing pains,
  • hashimoto's thyroiditis,
  • health anxiety,
  • helicobacter pylori,
  • herniated disc,
  • hiatal hernia,
  • hives,
  • hyperacusis,
  • hypermobility syndrome,
  • hypochondria,
  • ibs - irritable bowel syndrome,
  • inflammation,
  • injury,
  • insomnia and sleep problems,
  • interstitial cystitis – ic and other bladder problems,
  • knee arthritis,
  • lupus,
  • lyme disease,
  • medically unexplained symptoms - mus,
  • migraine,
  • moving pain,
  • muscle tension dysphonia - mtd,
  • muscle tightness,
  • nerve damage,
  • nerve pain,
  • nerve pain numbness b12,
  • neuropathy,
  • numbness and tingling,
  • obsessive compulsive disorder - ocd,
  • overactive bladder,
  • pain hearing,
  • panic attacks,
  • paresthesia,
  • patellofemoral syndrome,
  • peripheral neuropathy - pn,
  • persistent genital arousal disorder - pgad,
  • piriformis syndrome,
  • plantar fasciitis - pf,
  • post traumatic stress disorder - ptsd,
  • prostatitis,
  • pudendal nerve entrapment - pne,
  • pudendal neuralgia,
  • pulled muscle,
  • reflex sympathetic dystrophy - rsd,
  • restless leg syndrome - rls,
  • reynaud's syndrome,
  • rheumatoid arthritis,
  • rsi,
  • running knee,
  • ruptured disk,
  • schizophrenia,
  • sciatica - low back butt and leg pain,
  • scoliosis,
  • shaking,
  • shingles,
  • sinus infection,
  • small intestinal bacterial overgrowth - sibo,
  • sore throat,
  • spasm,
  • spasmodic dysphonia - sd,
  • spondylolisthesis,
  • stammer,
  • stenosis,
  • stiffness,
  • strange sensations,
  • swelling,
  • symptoms,
  • tendonitis,
  • tennis elbow,
  • thoracic herniated discs,
  • thoracic outlet syndrome,
  • tingling,
  • tinnitus,
  • tmj,
  • torn ligaments,
  • torn rotar cuff,
  • trigeminal neuralgia,
  • twitching and benign fasciculation syndrome - bfs,
  • ulcer,
  • upper back spasm,
  • urination,
  • uti - urinary tract infection,
  • vertigo,
  • vision problems,
  • vulvodynia,
  • women's health - female anatomy - questions for the ladies,

Techniques & Approaches

  • 12 daily reminders,
  • accepting and letting go of anxiety,
  • accepting the tms diagnosis,
  • acupuncture,
  • affirmations,
  • alan gordon recovery program,
  • alexander technique,
  • andrew weil's 4-7-8 relaxing breath,
  • benefits of breathing,
  • cluster writing,
  • cognitive behavioral therapy - cbt,
  • cultivating positive emotions such as happiness kindness and love,
  • dance movement therapy,
  • deep breathing and breathe control,
  • emdr,
  • existential psychotherapy,
  • focusing and eugene gendlin,
  • forgiveness and letting go of anger,
  • gratitude,
  • how to get negative emotions out of your head,
  • how to make stress your friend,
  • how to stop panic attacks,
  • how to talk to brain,
  • hypnotherapy,
  • imagery and visualization,
  • inner child,
  • inner critic,
  • inner parent and the superego,
  • internal family systems therapy - ifs,
  • istdp,
  • journaling,
  • meditation,
  • memory reconsolidation - healing from emotional learnings,
  • mindfulness and being present,
  • mindfulness meditation,
  • negative writing,
  • overcoming fear,
  • overcoming issues from childhood,
  • overcoming obsession with pain,
  • physical activity,
  • positive psychology - the study of thriving and building resilience,
  • positive statements,
  • positive thinking,
  • psychoanalysis,
  • psychotherapy,
  • rapid recovery,
  • relationships attachment connection,
  • relaxation,
  • reprogramming,
  • resuming exercise sports or other physical activity,
  • self compassion,
  • self talk,
  • self therapy and healing,
  • sep,
  • somatic experiencing and peter levine,
  • standing meditation,
  • structured tms recovery programs,
  • tapping,
  • the power of laughter,
  • therapy,
  • trigger point therapy,
  • visualization,
  • weight lifting,
  • whole30,
  • yoga,

Special Terminology

  • diversion pain syndrome - dps,
  • goodism,
  • mind body syndrome - mbs,
  • neural pathways,
  • nocebo,
  • oxygen deprivation,
  • psychophysiologic disorders - ppd,
  • psychosomatic,
  • psychosomatic disorders,
  • reservoir of rage,
  • stress illness - si,
  • swish pattern,
  • tension myoneural syndrome - tms,
  • tension myositis syndrome - tms,
  • the mindbody syndrome - tms,
  • the swish and trigger,
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