You most likely know that the mind-body tools I teach can completely relieve pain and dissipate stress – hence their value!

Sometimes, though life throws extra-hard stuff our way. For me, that happened in 2012, when I gave birth to my daughter. The birth itself was beautiful, but immediately afterward, I hemorrhaged. The road to recovery postpartum was littered with challenges.

I suffered an extreme anal fissure and hemorrhoid and ended up needing surgery.

Now, let me just say (and many people will confirm this should you choose to google it), butt surgery is THE MOST PAINFUL THING EVER. I kid you not. I’ve given birth with no painkillers AND had kidney stones. So I know of what I speak.

So, there I was, a nursing mom with a four-month old baby, faced with a decision.

Should I take the narcotic painkillers that would make life bearable?

Should I give up breastfeeding to survive the healing process?

In doing so, I’d be giving up one of my dreams; nursing my child for at least a year.

What did I do?

I pulled out my mind-body tool bag and I used the hell out of those tools. I left the narcotics in the cupboard, kept on nursing, and made it through the worst eight weeks of my life.

I healed AND nursed, all thanks to the mind-body tools.

These tools don’t just heal TMS/Mind-Body Syndrome. (Aka, pain and tension caused by stress.) These tools help dial down ANY kind of pain – even the worst pain ever, ever, ever. (Butt surgery, I’m telling you!)

When I returned to the doc for my post-op checkup, he was flabbergasted. He said he’d never had a patient not use the painkillers after that operation.

Was I a little proud of myself? Hell yes!

Not only did I heal and take good care of myself, but I got to nurse my baby all the way until she was two. I got to create the dream I’d had for starting her little life the way I wanted to start it.

This is why I teach these tools every year in the Mind-Body Coach Training. They are the most invaluable part of my life, and I use them all the time to help me navigate life’s hardest moments.

So, though I deeply pray that you will never have to have butt surgery, I’m glad you’re here on the blog, learning and applying what I share.

And if you want to have all the tools for your toughest moments, too, you can take the Mind-Body Coach Training anytime! (Right now, registration for the 2017 training is open, in case you’re ready to go for it! Take it just for you, or take it to learn for yourself and to coach others. It’s totally up to you!)

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Besides, our culture does not honor or allow for emotional processes like grieving. It’s as though we can just skim over the top of life, showing up at barbecues and school functions, presenting ourselves as fine, and somehow life will be ok.

Except, of course, when it isn’t, and our bodies respond to all this ignoring of emotion by manifesting physical symptoms. If you are familiar with TMS or Mind-Body Syndrome, then you know exactly what I mean.

Denying emotion is a habit, learned in childhood, that we bring into our adult lives. We don’t even realize we’re doing it. One of the biggest emotions that gets shoved under the rug is grief.

If you’ve recently (or not so recently) developed a pain syndrome in the body, step one is to look for places in your life that are asking to be grieved. It’s so easy to just trudge forward through losses and not give them the acknowledgment they deserve.

Not every loss will seem “big enough” to grieve. And your mind will likely tell you that you should “be over it by now,” which is something the mind says whether you’ve cried once or one-hundred times about a loss. The truth is, if you still feel it, you’re not over it, and that’s ok.

Because culture does not allow for grief, you have to allow for it yourself. You have to set aside the time to acknowledge, feel, and allow your own grief. Nobody else is going to give you permission.

Advocate for your own grief. This doesn’t mean you have to shirk all your duties. It just means you have to take the time you need, in bits and pieces or larger chunks, wherever you can. Set aside time for you, and use it to grieve. Then, you will actually find healing and openness, love, and joy flowing in again.

No matter how small the loss, (because we do that; we judge the size of our losses), it still counts. Acknowledge the reality of what you feel. Let yourself have the emotions that are begging for your attention. Be the kind and nurturing person who gives you a break, lets you rest into what needs to be felt, and takes great care of you.

Of course, I never do that, ever.

Well, ok, maybe a couple of times.

I’ve been studying the art of failing or making mistakes for a long time, because perfectionism was killing me. (Somewhat literally, since it was the root of my pelvic pain syndromes; vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, and pelvic floor dysfunction.) Trying to be perfect, make no wrong moves, and generally be loved or liked by everyone resulted in enormous amounts of stress in my life.

Perfectionism is pretty frustrating, since there is no perfect.

It’s like chasing your own tail all the time; exhausting, futile, and kind of silly.

Recently, I made a new and exciting discovery on the perfectionism front. I realized that the only reason I try to be perfect or avoid mistakes is this: I’m afraid of feeling that terrible sinking feeling I feel when I screw up.

Imagine for a moment that you’re heading to an important meeting, and you’re a big executive. You have prepared the perfect presentation. You’re set. You’re going to impress your boss. You walk into the meeting, sit down, and open your folder. The boss calls your name, and it’s your turn to present. You reach for the papers that your boss has requested you show him, and they’re not there. Oh, no. They were all set, and now they’re simply not there. You’ve FAILED.

Can you feel it? (Of course, you might need to imagine a different failure scenario, and that’s perfectly fine! Use whatever works.)

Your heart is racing; you feel dread, a sinking feeling, waves of sickly shame, and horror. There is a sensation of “not ok” within you. You’re wrong. You’ve messed up. Your core stability is shaken; you lose yourself into this pit of failure. You’re bad.

So that explains why most of us don’t really revel in failure and generally try to avoid it at all costs. There’s a lot of yucky sensation that comes with it.

The amazing thing, though, is that the sensation of failure, while uncomfortable, is quite survivable.

Your only task is to be with it and allow it to happen in your body. Let it all wash through, like the ocean waves at the beach. Feel the emotions as physical sensations, and let them happen.

Like waves, the emotions die down. They pass through. You discover that you are still intact. You are still ok. You are not wrong or bad; you’re just a person. Then, from that place, wisdom can emerge. You might discover or learn from your failure. You might take a new path as a result. You might be kinder to yourself, because you’re not stuck in self-recrimination. With that self-kindness, you might have new ideas flow in or open up to new solutions.

When you talk to the people around you, you’ll be less defended and more open. You’ll have new conversations.

When you can be with the sensation of failure and just let it be that – a sensation – you discover freedom. You discover a new strength within you, because now you don’t have to avoid mistakes or failure. You’re less likely to be vulnerable to others’ judgments, because you know the secret; you can survive that sensation. You’re always ok. You can mess up and feel shame and learn from it all, because that’s how it’s supposed to work.

That is how perfectionism loses its grip and you gain a whole new freedom to be yourself. With that freedom comes less stress, and, of course, less physical pain or other symptoms.

So, it might seem odd for me to say this: Anger is one of the most healing emotions you can feel.

To feel anger is to be present with the sensations of anger in the body. You might feel heat, sweating, rolling waves of energy, a buzzing in your chest, a thundering in your ears, or, fill in the blank here with whatever you feel in your body! Being with that energy, walking around the block as it flows within you, or sitting still while you allow your awareness to track it is not dangerous to your health.

In fact, it’s the only healthy way to handle any emotion, because there is no other way. You can’t make anger vanish by thinking positive thoughts. You can’t suppress it, because it will simply return or leak out when you least expect it. And, of course, if you do suppress it for a long period of time, your body will start to have chronic tension and eventually pain. Suppressed or unfelt anger causes TMS, (aka Mind Body Syndrome).

Feeling anger is actually essential to your health.

Without feeling anger, you don’t know your own truth. Anger lets us know when we’re not setting clear boundaries, when we’re feeling trampled or invaded, and welcomes us back to our ability to take care of ourselves.
Here’s how you do it:

1. Feel the energy of the anger as sensation in the body. Use your mind to notice what it feels like when anger is present. Walk or move if that makes it easier. Sit still if that makes it easier.
2. Let the anger energy simply exist, and don’t try to make it leave. It will dissolve in its own time when you’re present with it. Just noticing it as a physical sensation in your body allows it to pass.
3. Be open for any insight to arise. Sometimes it may show up immediately, and other times it may take days. Insight may show you where you need to speak up, where you need to create change, where you need to take care of yourself, where you need to own up to something or admit wrongdoing, or more. You’ll know when it arises because you’ll feel clarity.

What isn’t so healthy is the reaction we sometimes have to our own anger. I’ve had many experiences where, instead of feeling the anger energy and simply being present with it, I jumped into reaction. Reaction might look like yelling at someone, stewing for hours in a mind-loop about a situation until steam comes out your ears, physically harming yourself or others, treating others rudely, saying something cutting, or any form of acting out the anger with behavior.

Reaction to our own anger prevents us from actually feeling it.

You could say that our reaction to anger is what causes a negative impact on our bodies, because suppression and behavioral reaction both carry similar consequences; lots of tension, amped up heart rate, and a prolonged fight or flight response in the body.

However, learning to stay with the anger itself instead of suppressing or acting it out is a life’s work. All we can do is practice, and with each experience, get a little bit better at feeling the emotion. Self-judgment around having done it wrong simply makes it harder.

There is no perfection. There is no battle against anger. There’s just the ongoing process of being human, noticing ourselves with self-kindness, and openly welcoming the chance to practice staying, yet again, with the discomfort of emotion.

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I have many projects going, and I’ve had zero desire or energy to work on any of them. So, I did what comes naturally; freak out and put pressure on myself to work on them.

Because that always works.

Then, I remembered something important.This pattern of self-pressure is what got me into a chronic pain mess! Vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, pelvic floor dysfunction, and such all came about because I held emotions inside, didn’t listen to myself, and shoved my way through life. When I realized those syndromes were all just forms of TMS (aka Mind Body Syndrome), I was able to unwind the pain patterns and the brain patterns.

Of course, old habits die hard.

Last week, I had to admit to myself that I was in a full-on Sloth Mode.  Once I admitted that, I remembered this is just a cycle. For me, creative work is always like this. There’s an action phase and a resting phase, over and over again. The hard part is that the resting phase may come before the project is completed. Deadlines and dreams be damned, my body simply stops going with the flow and demands rest and vegetative mental states. Lack of energy is a sign I need rest, self-care, self-acceptance, and time to let the creative projects gestate.

Once I finally accepted Sloth Mode, set aside my visions of completed projects, and rolled with it, I became much like a turtle on downers and asleep; possibly hibernating. (Here’s where the metaphor stops working.)

I always assume that Sloth Mode will never end, and I’ll spend the rest of my life watching Netflix, reading trashy novels, and staring at the wall in between naps. This is despite much evidence to the contrary.

In fact, what happened was the exact opposite. Sloth Mode passed fairly quickly, and I woke up last Thursday with enough energy to do a HIIT workout, tackle several writing projects, spend hours with my web developer making huge progress on a new website, and get many small annoying tasks done. (Lest you think I’m superwoman, I totally ordered pizza for dinner instead of cooking.)

That’s right; Sloth Mode left and Go Mode returned.

If you’re like me, you kind of prefer Go Mode. Except, that’s not even really true, because Sloth Mode can be really, really fun, when you’re not guilting yourself for having it. Go Mode is more culturally accepted, so it seems cooler. And it can be fun. But, I have to say, Sloth Mode is where it’s at. Sloth Mode is what makes Go Mode possible.

In the end, I realized it’s either Sloth or Go. That’s just me. For years, my husband has remarked on this, suggesting I try this weird thing he calls balance. (Sometimes he’s even mentioned moderation. No idea what that is.) Unfortunately (or fortunately) I’ve just gotta roll with my own style here; two modes, no in-between, a creative cycle, and gulping life instead of sipping it.

Your modes may be entirely different.

I encourage you to observe yourself to find out how you roll.

Then, instead of pressuring yourself to do it differently (or be in Go Mode all the time), accept your truth. Learn to love how you roll, and take off the self-pressure. This is a huge part of healing from TMS, pelvic pain, depression, anxiety, and stress in general. The less you resist who you are, how you work, and what you need, the better you’ll feel. Take your Sloth Modes (whatever they look like) seriously. That’s how you take great care of yourself. Embrace your inner sloth, love your wild inner child, and take naps. Naps are very, very good.

I’m sure someone else is feeling much worse right now; what right do I have to complain?

I’m sure he/she didn’t mean/didn’t realize what they were doing.

I shouldn’t really feel __________, because ______________.

These, my friends, are the sentences that precede months or years of TMS (aka Mind Body Syndrome) pain, anxiety, undue amounts of stress, and much struggle. You may have said one or all of them to yourself in the past, and undoubtedly many other variations as well.

If you want to heal, you’ve gotta go there. You have to allow yourself to feel how you really feel about experiences, be they past or present. You must allow yourself to express the deep hurt, the anger, the grief, or whatever it may be.

I see two different styles of suppression in my work with clients. There’s the person who wants to be above it, whatever “it” happens to be in the moment, because he/she wants to be good, spiritual, or evolved. Then there’s the person who unwittingly resists emotions by telling him/herself to suck it up or just keep going. (And some people do both!) As a result, everyone is short-circuiting a vital and unavoidable healing process.

These patterns of behavior around emotion are learned, and we can unlearn them. Our emotions are not meant to be suppressed or ignored. They need to move. Emotions are energy in motion, and holding them stagnant in the body can only cause trouble. For anyone who has TMS, the healing path is clear. You literally can’t afford to suppress emotion, because your body is in pain as a result of years of doing so.

In general, whether you have physical pain or not, emotional health does not equal holding emotions inside or pushing them out of your awareness. It also doesn’t equal violently and repeatedly expressing the words around an experience without both feeling the bodily emotional sensations and observing the mind (this is often referred to as being a ‘drama queen’).

Certainly, there may be times when something occurs, you find yourself imagining you could be upset or bothered, and yet you truly aren’t. You are deeply at peace with the circumstance.

I’m not talking about those moments.

I’m talking about the moments when you actively feel bothered, and then you engage the mind in a suppressive self-dialogue (such as was listed at the beginning of this article).

Trying to “be evolved” or “dangle above the mess of life” (my favorite Pema Chodron quote, ever) is deadly.

For the spiritual seeker who is a recovering overachiever, this idea of being evolved is like the ultimate carrot. The mind can turn that into yet another achievement, and see it as a goal to be reached. The temptation becomes strong to skip the part where you feel emotions and simply leap to the end in a futile attempt to evolve as fast as possible.

The spiritual communities I’ve connected with, from yoga classes to meditation groups to circles of life coaches are rife with this confusion. Don’t fall prey to this ego trap, because that is exactly what it is.

Transcending an emotion is not something you do by thinking about it. You have to do the actual healing work of feeling the emotion as a physical sensation in the body. You have to allow yourself to express the not-so-nice thoughts in your head. They’re there, and no amount of leaping over them will ever create healing.

If you don’t do this kind of awareness practice, you’ll find yourself suddenly going Towanda (see video below) on people you love. This is how you become a classic example of an exploding doormat.

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The TMS personality trait Dr. John Sarno calls “goodism” is at the core of this emotional suppression issue. A good person wouldn’t “go there.” A good person would understand and feel compassion for the human being who hurt them. A good person wouldn’t say angry things, not even in their own head.

The problem is that this “good person” is absolutely the person who goes Towanda when they least expect it. Trying not to be reactive will only make you more reactive. I speak from much experience.

So what should you do if you want to grow and evolve, heal your body, prefer not to Towanda loved ones, and yet don’t want to store emotional experiences in your body?

Go there.

Get out a pen and paper, or your computer and say it all, on the page. Say the rude stuff. Say the angry stuff. Say the dark stuff. Don’t judge yourself. Allow yourself a chance to express. If you have a compassionate friend or coach who can let you do this verbally, listen with compassion, and not jump into the fray with you to escalate your reaction, then vent with them. Or, simply vent out loud in your own space.

Feel the emotions that want to be felt. Let them exist in your body as sensations. Hot, tingly, rising warm floods, buzzing, swirling thunderclouds; whatever they are, feel the sensations.

Don’t try to be evolved. Instead, evolve. Evolve through the process of feeling the physical emotional energy, expressing the mental language connected to the emotions, and then resting.

Rest into the space of an expressed, felt, and integrated emotion.

In that space, wisdom arises. It comes from the clarity of energy that has moved and is no longer keeping you stuck. It comes from the willingness to say what you need to say, and then be present with your body instead of spinning around and around in the story.

This is the important work you’ll do in the extremely humbling, honest experience of actually evolving. When you let yourself feel, express, and rest in the space from which wisdom arises, you do evolve. If you can let yourself actually feel and express the not-so-pretty stuff, you’ll find that wisdom, compassion and understanding naturally arise.

In fact, the more you practice the art of going there, the more you find that some things simply no longer bother you at all. You find that you do have a natural compassionate response more and more and more. You learn how to stay unattached to the sensations and thoughts of your emotions, but you flow with them. You allow them. You rest in the center, where the storm cannot sway you from deep peace, even as you feel the full rainbow of emotions given to us in this human experience.

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I thought I’d bring you all along on the journey this week, just for fun!

The breath is magical, because it’s always there, bringing oxygen to the body, no matter what we’re doing.

We don’t have to be aware of it for it to continually work its magic, because it’s meant to steadily and continually keep us alive. However, the breath becomes even more magical when we do actually pay attention to it.

Try the following exercise:

Take a moment to pay attention to your breath. Right now, what is your breath doing? Is it moving freely? Are you holding your breath? Is it moving in your chest? Or is your low belly relaxed and the breath flowing there? Are you breathing quickly or slowly? Just notice. Then, simply notice the breath come into your body as you inhale and leave as you exhale, without altering anything on purpose.

As you do this simple check-in, you build your ability to be present, right now, in your body. Checking in with yourself three times a day to simply become aware of the breath (without purposefully altering it) will significantly change your daily life experience. You’ll begin to notice the world seeming brighter, the joy of living filling your body and mind, and the sudden relaxation of time concerns. (Truly, I haven’t felt rushed at all since starting this practice.)

The first step to unwinding unhealthy breath patterns is to observe the breath. This deceptively simple practice will allow your body to begin the process of returning to natural, unhampered breathing (the kind we did as babies.) As you observe, you’ll find that the body and mind naturally shift a breath pattern that isn’t serving you. For example, if I notice I’m holding my breath during a check-in, my body automatically takes a nice, deep diaphragmatic breath.

You will also have easier access to your emotions, since the breath is a very exact indication of your emotional experience in the moment. Holding your breath is a signal that you are suppressing something in this very moment. Quick inhales via your mouth that puff up your chest let you know you’re highly stressed or anxious about something right now, and you’re trying to avoid feeling the emotions under the stress. If the breath is moving fluidly in your low belly and diaphragm, you’re relaxed and emotionally aware in this moment.

As you can see, this is a pretty fabulous practice for developing the kind of emotional awareness necessary to heal TMS (aka Mind-Body Syndrome). It’s also the secret weapon of every enlightened yogi, so there’s that. (This seems like a fairly compelling reason to practice breath awareness!)

For me, this practice has deepened my emotional awareness, brought me even further into my daily practice of living in my body instead of my head, and opened up a deluge of creativity. I also feel more connected to my family members, because I am even more present now. I’m able to speak my truth more clearly and easily, because I know my truth more readily. Being present with my breath helps me know what I need in each moment.

I’ve expanded my practice from three times a day to as many times a day as I can remember to check in with my breath. It gets a little easier each day. I find myself paying attention to my breath while working, playing with my daughter, cooking, and conversing with friends. This is rapidly improving my ability to witness my own thinking, my emotions, my body, and my spirit from an observational place instead of a reactive place.

Imagine – all this, just from one simple breath practice. It’s the most basic practice, and it may be one you already know, or have heard of before and tried. However, it’s pretty easy to underestimate the power of this simple practice. I invite you to play along with me as I explore the depths of presence more and more each day. I’d love to hear what this simple practice does for you!

The idea that this was causing my body to react with tension and pain really blew my mind. And, it made so much sense. It was, truly, the only logical explanation for the sudden, out-of-nowhere chronic pelvic pain syndromes I’d developed; vulvodynia and interstitial cystitis. Every other explanation lacked the simplicity and clarity of that one, and so I decided to use a mind-body healing approach to my syndromes.

In doing so, not only did I eliminate the pain syndromes, but I changed every single aspect of my life for the better. Why? Because I changed the driving force behind all of my actions and decisions.

I used to act from fear. Fear of not being perfect or good enough. Fear of not succeeding. Fear of people not liking me. Fear of something failing or falling apart. Fear of messing up. Fear of losing something or someone.

When you look at it like that, it’s quite a lot of fear. Fear, unfelt and un-faced, remains within the body. This causes tension and stress…and pain.

To heal my body and mind, I had to find the antidote to a fear-based life.

What’s the antidote?

A love-based life.

I had to learn how to make all choices, actions, and decisions based on love.

In every moment, there’s a fear-based focus and a love-based focus. The fear-based focus says, “I have to do/should do x,y, or z because something bad might happen.” The love-based focus says, “I am choosing this because it feels right, and it feels like love.”

A love-based life means asking myself if what I’m thinking or doing is because I love me and want to care for me, or because I’m afraid of something.

I have to stop and pay attention. Am I tense? Holding my breath? If so, I’m trying not to feel fear. It’s time to connect to myself, be aware of the fear, and find my way back to love.

If I love me, I don’t have to be perfect, good-enough, or responsible for the whole world. I can just be.

If I love me, I can treat myself with kindness instead of criticism.

If I love me, I can choose actions because they feel joyful, loving, and fun.

Now, I listen deeply to the truth in my heart. From there, I choose to eat foods I love. I choose to enjoy activities I love. I choose to work in a career I love, in ways that I love.

Before anything can become a part of my life, it has to pass the love test. If it doesn’t feel absolutely right and loving for myself, then it doesn’t pass.

This love-based life has given me my health back. It’s given me my life back – only it’s a much better life! It’s given me the work I love, the child I love, and so much more.

Choosing to love me and to live a love-based life healed my body and united me with my spirit.

Exhausted.

Like part of your body is permanently molded into the bed.

When you start paying attention to your body and actually listening to its needs, one of the first things that happens is usually exhaustion. It’s like you pick up the rug and realize you’ve been sweeping stuff under it for years. Now, here you are, faced with reality: You. Are. Tired.

So very tired.

This is normal! In our culture, we often push ourselves crazy-hard. We ignore our bodies and blow past signals for rest and recuperation. We focus on doing, doing, doing. Our to-do lists become more important than our physical bodies.

I frequently fall into this habit, even after years of deep practice around listening to my body and respecting its messages.

Self-kindness is called for when you confront your tendencies to shove aside your body’s guidance and end up sick or in pain.

You didn’t do this on purpose.

You’re not bad or wrong for ignoring your body, or for being tired.

This is all just information, and you can simply be curious. Why did I think it was more important to clean my house, work late, and then paint the ceiling than to take a few moments to settle in for a little rest?

You’ll probably find that your mind thinks you should work 24/7 to be a worthwhile person, you’re a little afraid of the emotions or insights that might pop up if you stop, and nobody ever says, “Wow! Amazing job resting today!”

All of these reasons make it more challenging to get off the treadmill and stop moving.

When you finally do, you’ll probably have some accumulated exhaustion in your body. That’s ok. No judgment necessary. Right now, just rest.

Then rest some more.

Then rest some more.

It’s your path to health. And joy. And creativity.

You are doing SUCH A GREAT JOB RESTING! You are AMAZING when you rest so much!

(Print those last two sentences out and post them somewhere handy.)

Keep up the good resting.

Whether you’re new to mind-body healing or a veteran of many years, there’s only way to stay sane: DON’T GOOGLE IT.

If you’re using a mind-body healing approach and you’ve realized you have TMS (also called Mind Body Syndrome), then Googling your symptoms is probably the worst thing you can do.  I can’t think of a faster way to create doubt and fear in your mind that what you’re dealing with isn’t just TMS, but something deadly and permanent.

If you want mind-body healing to work, you have to decide to go all in and let go of the conventional thoughts and ideas around your symptoms. You have to drop the medical lingo for your syndrome (I remember feeling so free when I stopped saying I had vulvodynia and switched to calling it TMS. It was pivotal in my healing process!). You have to leave the conditioned way of viewing the mind and body and open yourself to something much more powerful – seeing the mind and body as a team.

Stop researching your symptoms and start spending the time on yourself, instead. Use that time to feel emotions, journal about stresses in your life, and relax the body. You’ll find yourself improving much more quickly without research blocking your progress.

If you’re like most people I work with, you’ve already seen a plethora of doctors, researched deep into the night many times, and right now you’re just facing a momentary fear that’s driving you to Google. Recognize the fear for what it is; the siren song of TMS. It’s the way the syndrome works. Your own mind keeps you distracted with fear around symptoms when the real work (feeling emotions, seeing truths with yourself) awaits.

There’s nothing new for you to learn on Google about your symptoms.

There is, however, much more for you to learn about yourself, within you.

It’s time to research your innermost emotions, how you’re treating yourself, and where you might need to make changes in your external life. That is what will heal TMS and create the well-being you want.