After sitting with this decision for a very long time, spending lots of time listening to my next steps, I’ve decided to move out of the mind-body podcast space and into my next evolution of my work (which I will explain). I truly feel like …

Today on the show, I have a beautiful interview with Edith Vignal, the creator of “The Shadow Side of Pain” – a bilingual digital illustration project that raises awareness around chronic pain and the mind-body connection. She features stories and illustrations from her own life, as well as others like her who have discovered the wisdom of the mindbody message and want to help her bring these awarenesses to light. This interview is packed with wisdom and has a beautiful, artistic...

Today on the show, we hear from the amazing Adriana Bucci – Adriana is a mind-body coach, consultant, TMS survivor, and the owner of Let’s Get Your Shift Together. Her journey over the last 4 years began with a routine wisdom tooth extraction, but cascaded into a series of intensely painful symptoms that eventually left her questioning whether or not she wanted to continue living on this planet. Her experiences over that time led her to discover the mind-body message, get HER shift...

Sometimes, when we are in the throes of chronic symptoms, we feel like our body is against us. We feel like our body is broken, uncooperative and some days, we’d prefer to trade it in for a new model. This, in and of itself, can lead to a disharmony within our mindbody system. When we hate the skin we live in, we are subtly telling our brains that we are NOT OK. So please accept this gift. A love letter to your mind and body; an APOLOGY letter to your mind and body. May...

Today on the show, one of my beautiful clients shares her journey through the valley of chronic symptoms and what her unique path looked like out of the darkness and into the light. Ann’s story is vulnerable and powerful and might speak to you if you’re dealing with symptoms that are not just pain-related. Chronic flu, stomach upset, fatigue, dizziness, vertigo, and skin itching were all a major part of her journey, but with the help of Dr. John Sarno, Nicole Sachs, and this podcast, she...

If you’re involved in the mind-body community on Facebook at all, you might recognize Phil. Phil is someone who has fully recovered from a 15-year relationship with chronic RSI, among a host of other random symptoms and injuries over the years. With the help of SIRPA, Georgie Oldfield, and his own trial and error, he has reached a new level of peace and inner awareness that allows him to meet his bodily symptoms as dear friends who only have his best interest in mind. He is a strong...

I tend to repeat myself a lot on the podcast, and I’m going to do that again today and just say that: we live in a totally balanced universe – with equal dark and light, equal yin and yang, equal “bad” and “good” and when we perceive a situation as all “bad” or all “good” we are steeped in a completely unbalanced perspective. When we have an imbalanced perspective, we make imbalanced choices, that lead to imbalanced actions, that leads to imbalanced bodies. So one way we can...

Image by CodeCarvings Piczard Something that has been coming out in the collective awareness over the past few years is the concept of LIMITING beliefs.. these are the basic human illusory beliefs that literally run our day to day, making our decisions, lowering our self-esteem, and of course affecting our bodies… but they generally fly under the radar and after decades of stewing in our unconscious realm, they just seem to feel like “just the way things are”… we believe our limiting...

photo cred: Ishyndar One element of the mind-body message that I don’t think is talked about often enough is the concept of purpose and meaning in our lives.  I believe that discovering and nurturing our own unique sense of purpose is perhaps one of the more important pieces of not only our healing journeys, but also our lives here on earth. And when we are in pain or chronic symptoms, our world tends to get very small.  Perhaps we even had to take a leave from our job or...

I have something to tell you…. YOU ARE GOING TO BE OK! In fact, you ARE OK. Right here. Right now. And your okay-ness is not actually dependent on a lack of pain, even though it feels like it is. Being a human means that we will experience pain at some point, and the view that pain is somehow WRONG is what is hurting us longer-term. We have collectively lost our trust in the body’s journey. And when we distrust our own body (due to pain, or discomfort or...

What is a trigger? A trigger could be something or someone – a comment or a situation that brings up some old pain within you – that pain could be emotional, mental or physical… and it could be triggered by the slightest thing. Something that wouldn’t bother anyone else but you, because you just happen to have an ancient wound attached to that trigger. We all have them, and today I discuss how we can begin to notice them and work through them. I was T R I G G E R E D this week, and...

The one… the only … NICOLE SACHS, LCSW is back on the podcast today to talk about her incredible work, her OMEGA retreat, her perspectives on raising emotionally aware children, as well as the power of intention when sitting down to “do the work!” She’s a beacon of light and love, and you definitely do NOT want to miss this episode as she drops SO much incredible wisdom. Nicole’s retreat at the incredible OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES is live and ON SALE! Join her 7/21-7/26 for...

I wanted to take a few moments today to talk about one of my own biggest shadows – one of my dark sneaky little friends, that peeks it’s head up from my emotional basement every now and again, that I’ve had to really consciously work at transforming over the years. And that is the shadow of victimization. When I feel victimized, when WE feel victimized, it means that we are in a particular state of being where the world, our circumstances, or our relationships seem to be all banded...

Consciousness is shifting on the planet. People are waking up. Information is more available than ever before, and is constantly expanding. Our intuition is collectively getting stronger and our left-brained thinking mind is more willing and open to explore the depths of right-brained knowing. We live in a fractal universe, the world that we see with our two eyes is, in fact, a hologram, where the same geometric patterns that appear within each and every one of our 60 trillion...

Our whole life is a series of relationships. Relationship to self, relationship to the earth, relationship to our fellow humans, our fellow animals, and our relationship to spirit, the cosmos, the universe, our bodies, our thoughts, our pleasure, our pain. We are all a part of this beautiful, intricate, interwoven web of life, and when we forget this, we succumb to the illusion of separation. We succumb to feeling alone. We can even feel alone when we are surrounded by people. ...

Finally! We got it done. The long-awaited community episode that had originally been scheduled for early February has, at last, arrived. Snow, sleet, and vocal obstructions couldn’t stop this Skype recording! AND, if the universe allows it, we will get together again in May (in-person) for a Part 2! Thank you to everyone who wrote in with questions and comments. None of this would be possible without you! 3 If you’d like to submit a question for the next Eddy and Katelyn...

“To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.” ~Unknown If you’re tuning into to this podcast, you’re probably someone who identifies with the classic over-achiever personality. You’re probably a perfectionist, a people-pleaser, a good girl, or a good boy … and that pattern was likely developed very early on for you. In childhood, most of us were praised for obedient behavior and punished for behavior that didn’t please the adults in our lives, so this over-achieving, good...

Earlier this week, one of the members of our private Facebook Community, Mindbody Masters, shared an interview with Wim Hof on the Under the Skin Podcast with Russell Brand. It blew. my. mind. This sent me on a research mission over the weekend, pouring over the scientific studies that have been done on Wim, and I also began incorporating the three pillars of his method into my daily life. The three components of the Wim Hof Method (WHM) are as follows: •...

Silence. How much of it are you getting on a day to day basis? If you’re anything like me, NOT MUCH! It’s only natural to feel the urge to consume information, books, podcasts, TV, movies, music, YouTube videos … we have come to a time in society when we feel utterly useless if we’re not growing, expanding or entertaining ourselves. We feel like we are “wasting time” by sitting still with nothing but our thoughts. It feels uncomfortable and unnatural and utterly...

“The way we see the problem is the problem” – Steven Covey This quote is EVERYTHING when it comes to chronic symptoms. This quote offers us a window into how we’ve been reacting to the stuff of life. In the case of pain, we often naturally relate to the pain as if it were an enemy, as if it were something to be eradicated, excommunicated, even executed! When we get frustrated with the pain on a habitual level, we keep the fight or flight mechanism engaged in response to this...

This episode is a stand-alone meditation that encourages you to hold space for yourself, your body, your mind, and your heart. This is a 15 minute meditation, and can be done as often as you like. I offer you this meditation today because I am seeing a lot of people in the Mindbody community who are unsuccessfully trying to “ignore” their pain. Ignoring, in my opinion, does NOT work, at least not long-term. This is an entirely new way to be with yourself and your body. I hope you...

Do you feel like you’re overly sensitive? Do you feel overwhelmed in large crowds, in areas with strong smells, and even in online communities? If so, you might be an empath. You might be feeling into the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions of the people, animals, and environments around you.. What most people don’t realize, though, is that when pain, strong negative emotion, or anxiety/panic arises within them, that these feelings are often being absorbed into their energy field...

Last week, on the podcast episode with Kate Swedberg, she and I spoke about one of my favorite spiritual teachers, David Hawkins, and so I wanted to go a little bit deeper and talk about what I’ve learned from him. I discovered David Hawkins in 2014, and at that time, I was still dealing with chronic symptoms in my back, neck and hips, but I did begin applying a lot of his principles laid out in his books, namely Healing and Recovery and Letting Go. In all of Hawkins...

Six years ago, Kate left behind an eating disorder, and was immediately thrown head long into severe chronic pain, fatigue, and body-wide swelling.  Her long search for healing eventually led her to learn about The Mindbody Syndrome (TMS), and she began to recover her physical health through deep emotional work. She shares her story of becoming more emotionally authentic and accepting of herself, and discusses her successes, her treatment strategies and her favorite resources that...