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Yes, absolutely! All TMS really is, is anxiety...somatized anxiety (anxiety expressed through the body). When we focus on the symptoms and pain (which is human since our brains are designed to alert us to danger), what we are really doing is warding off anxiety and the threatening/uncomfortable feelings underneath. Preoccupation with symptoms soothes unconscious anxiety. The question is, what is the driver of this anxiety?? Usually rage, sadness and guilt. Guilt about having rage towards loved ones who may have traumatized us in some way (whether it be criticism, pressure, high expectations, abuse or neglect, dysfunction, tension etc). TMS is merely a symptom that is calling out to you to feel those feeling...allow them to pass through and get discharged (without the judgment and with self compassion....compassion towards the part of you that is rage-ful). We get caught up in this loop and TMS takes on a life of its own...the loop of fear/anxiety - symptoms - fear/anxiety about symptoms and so it goes. How do we intercept the loop then? By losing the fear about the symptoms. Recognizing them for what they are ....messengers from the brain (false signals that want to wake us up to the truth of who we are). Caring more about our lives than getting rid of symptoms. Most of all, disabusing ourselves of the false belief that our body is somehow broken or damaged. Dismantling all those core beliefs we have about ourselves, that have now formed our prison of the mind. Beliefs such as "I'm fundamentally flawed", "My past went like this so therefore my future will be just as bad", "I can't get better or be happy", "I don't deserve to be happy" , "I deserve to be punished because I harbor these horrible feelings and impulses that are not aligned with my self image", "If I'm not perfect, I'm a failure" etc etc etc....