Secrets of Healing from ME/CFS and Long Covid with Rebecca Tolin

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Post-screening discussion about secrets of healing from ME/CFS and Long Covid with This Might Hurt film
Rebecca's 10-week live group mind-body healing course designed especially for people with ME/CFS and Long Covid begins in October 2023. Registration closes Oct 2, 2023. Find out more here: www.rebeccatolin.com/course
This seminar is a deep dive that details how Rebecca Tolin has used mind-body principles to recover from 13 years of ME/CFS symptoms and has helped over 100 people recover from the same condition. The conversation covers many tools for how to use brain science and brain retraining to unlearn symptoms of fatigue, pain, and Long Covid. For more background on the science and method you can visit our site at www.thismighthurtfilm.com/unl...
00:00 intro of mind-body healing coaches Kent Bassett and Rebecca Tolin
02:30 Rebecca Tolin's experience of debilitating ME/CFS for 13 years
07:13 Rebecca's recovery
11:30 How Rebecca makes sense of the biomedical explanations for ME/CFS and Long Covid
16:37 Rebecca diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease
19:16 Going beyond the reductionist biomedical model; shifting to mind-body principles of healing
24:37 🧘 REBECCA GUIDES A SOMATIC TRACKING 🧘 FOR EMOTIONS
39:29 How to apply mind-body healing techniques FOR FATIGUE as opposed to pain
42:50 How is the mind-body technique of "graded exposure" different from "pacing"?
45:13 Crash cycles, post-exertional malaise, how to work with someone who has a very powerful crash response when resuming activities?
48:25 Can graded exposure be helpful even for someone who is bed-bound?
50:30 Long Covid - Rebecca's work with patients as part of the Harvard study on Long Covid that showed mind-body treatment is effective in reducing fatigue and fear and helping people get back to activities.
53:34 How Rebecca incorporates emotional work
55:14 How to deal with poor sleep / insomnia
58:32 How important is the group support and community aspect in recovery?
1:01:45 How does mind-body healing (also known as Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy) compare to similar brain retraining programs like DNRS?
BIOS
Rebecca Tolin (panelist) is a mind-body practitioner, teacher, and writer who helps people recover from chronic fatigue, pain, and post-viral syndromes like Long Covid and ME/CFS. Rebecca comes to this field through her own 13-year saga with chronic fatigue syndrome. After seeing 50 clinicians, Rebecca finally recovered after discovering Dr. Schubiner's work. She has since developed the Be Your Own Medicine course, which guides people with mind-body symptoms through the steps to recovery. Rebecca recently consulted on a pilot study with Harvard Medical School showing that long Covid patients improved significantly with a mind-body approach. She shares healing stories and science on her blog and RUclips channel. www.rebeccatolin.com
Kent Bassett (director, moderator) is an Emmy-nominated editor and filmmaker as well as a pain recovery coach. He directed and edited This Might Hurt (Austin Film Festival), a feature documentary about chronic pain and a radical mind-body treatment, and his most recent editing work is Not Going Quietly, a feature documentary about health care activist Ady Barkan (on Hulu, 2 Emmy Nominations). Kent has a BA in history from Swarthmore College and an MFA in film production from Chapman University. His narrative work includes the short films “Honolulu” (editor, Aspen Shortsfest), “The Line” (writer/director, winner, spirit award, Brooklyn Film Festival), and “A Period Piece” (editor, SXSW). After directing This Might Hurt, Kent trained as a pain recovery coach and works with people struggling with chronic pain at Mind-Body Insight.
➡️ If you're interested in 1:1 coaching with Kent: www.mindbodyinsight.net

[@casario2808]

Thank You. I have suffered from CFS for several years, as well as chronic pain later after CFS started. I became aware of MBS through the work of Dr Schubiner and others a couple of years ago, but always asking (or looking to answer) the links between MBS/PPT and CFS. I mean, the pain sucks obviously, but I want to address the CFS as I feel it is the root. Rebecca and Kent...you have done such a great job here of putting things into perspective on this for me as well as providing specific practical guidance and suggestions. Huge gratitude.

[@ThisMightHurt]

Thank you for this comment! Wishing you the best. - Kent

[@gillsobczyk2809]

Thank you, both of you

[@ThisMightHurt]

Thanks for your comment!

[@Star5dg]

I had positive western blot lyme disease test result 3 weeks after lyme EM rash. Many in the lyme community are getting diagnosed from private labs which is money making in my opnion

[@monkeybearmax]

Did you retest to see if your autoimmune conditions faded away?