@JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle on The Cure For Chronic Pain

Wow, thank you for this terrific write-up, dear Cactusflower!

We recorded that more two months ago and it had to be bumped because of the many things going on for Nicole this spring, so I just told her not to worry about trying to tell me ahead of time, since her show is in my feed anyway. I was actually surprised to realize that today's episode was me! I just finished listening to it, whew!

 

On a side note, I must have been incredibly distracted by talking with Nicole because I was rather horrified, within minutes of completing our recording, to realize that I never mentioned the fact that Dr Schecter had recommended that I get some help from a TMS practitioner, and he recommended a California-base LCSW who had previously been with Alan's clinic. I've been engaged in "coaching" with her since the summer of 2020. (I'm not allowed to use the "t" word because of cross-state licensing laws). Anyway, working with her has been incredibly helpful and she is tough on me and challenges me, which not all mental health practitioners can do. We met every week for a year, bi-weekly since then. I'm a big advocate of one-on-one professional help.

 

A quick pod primer:

Whether you're searching on the web, or in your music service (Spotify or Amazon or iTunes) or within the "add a subscription" section of a dedicated podcast app, you just need to know the title of the pod, in this case The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs. If you're doing a web search you also need to add "podcast" to your search or yes, you'll get WAY too many Nicole hits!

Or, as @Cactusflower says, just go to www.audioboom.com, and put the title in the search feature under their drop-down menu (upper-right on my phone browser).

If you use a dedicated podcast app and you'd like to be notified about new episodes for any show, subscribe to it so new ones show up in your feed. The default of these apps is to download all new episodes, but I always change that. I can always choose to download a particular episode if I want to listen without data service.

On Amazon, I'll get notifications by "following" a show, but I find Amazon to be really annoying for podcasts and I've turned off most of their notifications anyway. They do have a pretty good collection of ad-supported shows that are somehow ad-free on Amazon, which makes it somewhat worthwhile for some of the more commercial shows but that's not an issue with any of our mindbody pods.

Since the demise of the blessedly simple, always synced-up Google Podcasts (RIP to yet another another useful tool) I've switched to Antennapod. It doesn't sync between devices (nor do any others since GP was killed) but I like everything else about it, and it's open source. They apparently don't need monetary donations (I tried) but they are always looking for volunteers with programming expertise.

 

Yesterday! (June 7)

 

OMG, this is SO true, and I have often reeeeally wanted to respond to "fear reactions" exactly like this - but I usually decide it's not worth it, because the person has already shown themselves to be sadly resistant to suggestions to get on with the emotional work. I saw one just yesterday, and I'm still trying to decide how to support the OP in the face of this criticism.

@Ellen, you and I and certainly everyone participating in this thread know for sure, having experienced it ourselves, that those who recover are the ones who are willing to be exposed to ideas which challenge our fear response. After all, an idea ain't a sabre-tooth tiger which will actually kill and eat you.

 

Thanks B! Also, look at you with a nice new pic! It's good to see your smiling face, my friend

Way back in the day but not anymore! Her profile page link is below. To see her old posts (or anyone's) click on the Postings tab. At the bottom of the page you can click on "all threads by..." in order to limit the hits to just original threads started by that person.
https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/members/nicole-j-sachs-lcsw.1287/ (Nicole J. Sachs LCSW)