Day 1 RN is learning

Welcome, to both of the new "mamas" and please keep us posted with your progress! We're all in this together!

@Mamajennie, check out Dr. David Hanscom, MD. He's a highly-rated back surgeon in Seattle who actually retired from his surgical practice to concentrate on the mindbody connection. While in practice, he asked his patients to go through his "Back In Control" course (based on his own experience with TMS and having learned from Dr. Sarno) and he reported at one point that about 40% of patients were completing the program and cancelling their surgeries. The other MD to look at, of course, is Dr. Howard Schubiner, who is working hard to validate and prove the power of the mindbody connection over chronic conditions, focusing heavily on the neuroscience aspect of emotional repression. Both doctors are directors of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association, at ppdassociation.org - which was organized specifically to spread the knowledge about TMS/MBS to the greater medical community. New discoveries in neuroscience are being made all the time, and the mindbody connection is making headway every day. If your husband doesn't already know something about this, he will soon. And, if YOU can fully believe in and commit to your own diagnosis of TMS (I would say that most of us here are self-diagnosed) you will be able to show him the truth about it soon enough.

You go, girls!

~Jan

 

I recommend our free Structured Educational Program as the starting point. Don't try to do it too fast. Let the information sink in. Most importantly, make a commitment to yourself that you will be completely honest when you start doing the writing exercises. Your fearful brain will try to convince you to skip or ignore things that come into your head, so you must be strong and write those things down anyway.

Over and over again, we hear that healing requires opening yourself up and doing the emotional work, and doing it honestly, no matter how much your brain tries to fight back.

 

We are talking about going WAY deeper than just being able to express your everyday relationship emotions with others. The s**t that is being repressed is literally seen by your primitive fearful brain as being dangerous to your survival if you are allowed to feel it.

I'm not saying it makes sense. In fact, I frequently say here that the primitive TMS mechanism may have kept us safe for our short lives in the primitive world, with its very few and very obvious dangers, but that it makes no sense at all in today's modern world, with our very long lives and our multitude of modern stresses.

Don't let your brain seduce you into thinking that you don't need to do this work. It's a trick!