How To Heal Chronic Fatigue, POTS, and Long Covid Using Brain Retraining
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- See the full film at thismighthurtfilm.com
Post-screening discussion with This Might Hurt film
This seminar is an overview of how to use brain retraining to unlearn symptoms of fatigue, pain, and POTS associated with Long Covid. For more background on the science, to read fascinating long-form journalism explores Long Covid as a functional somatic disorder, go to our resources page here: www.thismighthurtfilm.com/lon...
00:00 Intros and bios
3:50 Michelle shares her story about overcoming ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, and pain syndromes associated with Ehlers-Danlos
09:15 Dr. Lily Graue shares how she developed chronic back pain after an injury and recovered
15:20 How can mind-body coaching help people?
22:00 How can these ideas percolate into the medical world so women are not dismissed?
25:45 How coaching can un-stick people's healing processes, especially for Long Covid?
31:12 Long Covid - How to understand this diagnosis if no structural damage as been found
38:00 How to work with extreme fatigue that leaves you unable to talk or have a call?
44:14 Can an eating disorder be considered a mind-body syndrome?
50:15 Covid-induced POTS-like symptoms -- what are the best tips?
PANELIST BIOS
Michelle Wiegers is a Certified Professional Life and Mind-Body Coach, writer and poet who discovered her creative voice and mind-body coaching work after recovering from over twenty-five years of chronic pain, fibromyalgia, sciatica, CFS, POTS, IBS and symptoms associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She creates restorative healing experiences with individual clients and through her online course, How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue. She can be found online at michellewiegers.com
Lilia Graue, MD, LMFT is a physician, psychotherapist, coach, and grief tender in Mexico City, where she's practiced, lectured, and mentored for over 20 years in both Spanish and English. Her approach is collaborative, trauma sensitive, healing centered, and mindfulness and compassion based. She brings together radical care approaches to foster healing, and mentors healthcare professionals in engaging critical and feminist perspectives to promote justice and equity in medicine and healthcare. In addition to her work in chronic pain recovery, Dr. Graue has extensive experience in the fields of eating disorders and medical family therapy. She is a Clinical Advisor for Lin.Health and part of the Medical Advisory Board for The Better Mind Center. You can find her online at liliagraue.com
Marion Cunningham (director, producer, co-editor of This Might Hurt) is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who has produced series for Netflix, National Geographic, History, OWN, Discovery and A&E. Cunningham joined fellow Chapman University alum, Bassett, after meeting in NYC. She instantly connected with the story and after a multi-year journey, the two launched an Indiegogo campaign to procure finishing funds. Both are eager to share what they have learned in hopes of alleviating the suffering that has driven thousands into opioid addiction, as well as driving many taken off their painkillers to suicide. 
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Wow, this has been so helpful for helping me learn how to handle my fatigue after having covid 3 months ago. Since the pandemic started I was terrified of getting long covid, and when I did after a very mild infection, I've been baffled about why, and what to do about it. (My MD had nothing to offer.) This discussion has given me a lot to work with to find my way out of this fatigue, which I now believe is simply brain-generated.
@laura This is wonderful to hear! Thanks for sharing your reaction; so glad you found it helpful. We're sorry that you've been dealing with Long Covid, but glad you're seeing a path toward recovery. Many more resources for overcoming Long Covid are on our site here (you can also see our feature length film): www.thismighthurtfilm.com/long-covid
Hi how are you feeling now, going through horrible fatigue post COVID almost 2 months ago
Excellent interview!!! Although I was so disappointed when they were interrupted that Marion didn't go back to Michelle and let her finish her response about specific tools to calm the nervous system. She had plenty of time at the end. I really wanted to hear what she had to say.
@StarGalaxy We understand your disappointment! There are TONS of free resources on our website, a way to access the full-lenth film, and answers to "how to calm the nervous system" at www.thismighthurtfilm.com/unlearningpain
Also you can find Michelle Wiegers and her resources for calming the nervous system here: michellewiegers.com/
Yes me too!
Please do a video on unlearning anxiety/depression and another one unlearning insomnia. I have applied all this teaching and it set me free of chronic pain, God set me free of the depression and anxiety, sleep disturbances is last to go, but better.
Noted! We will try to create some resources on these things. It will take some time. In the meantime, if you discover any please send them our way. tmhfilm@gmail.com
The basic idea is that you can regard insomnia and anxiety as equivalents to chronic pain (manifestations of anxiety and resistance to feeling emotions), so you can treat them much the same way you would treat pain-emotional processing, cognitive reframing, behavior shifts to reduce fear of the symptoms, etc. Good luck!
@@ThisMightHurt how would I go about learning to become a coach for this? I’m a DON for a large addiction recovery.
During my CFS diagnosis they found out my back was torn up from the butt up. My rheumatologist was shocked that I have very little back pain. Said my back looked like I'd been in a bad car accident. They also diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome during an EMG. That was a total scock since I have no pain in that area at all. Of course no one could find the source of my cfs/fibro pain. Go figure.
Hi @theantiqueactionfigure - Thanks for sharing - where are you at now with all of this?
@@ThisMightHurt Just getting started with brain retraing, about two weeks in at this point. Using mostly the Curable app and learning everything I can. I'm starting have a few better days but after 20 years I know these good days show up sometimes.
@@theantiqueactionfigure Awesome, wishing you the best. Let us know how it goes-you can always reach us at tmhfilm@gmail.com You find this other seminar we did about chronic pain helpful: ruclips.net/video/5gxfY7-zdVk/видео.html
I have post covid pots symptoms post 7 weeks and have started dnrs and curable app. I really wanted to listen to what Michelle was going to say that helped her heal. What is her website?
@carolina Thanks for your comment. You can find Michelle Wiegers at michellewiegers.com
How are you doing now?
POTS is my LC issue too. And insomnia.. nearly 2 years now..
@@tanyawieczorek6603 completely healed by doing Nicole sachs journal speak and watching Dan buglios videos. I healed within this last month actually
Very interesting webinar. Totally resonates with me
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting us know.
Does this help with the flat emotions no connection depersonalization derealization. Not feeling you can go back to your old self
Hi, depersonalization and derealization, if the symptom is caused by trauma, can in theory be addressed by using this trauma-informed treatment of reducing fear, reducing resistance to the symptoms, using mindfulness to cultivate awareness of body sensations and mental states, and working to process traumatic memories in a safe way. We have not had many people report using this specific treatment for DP/DR, so it is hard to comment beyond that. Wishing you luck.
@@ThisMightHurt thank you for the in depth explanation! I post COVID and experiencing I guess what that is and just looking for a way for it to dissipate. Mine occurred after my body was having anxiety and first panic attack while I was recovered. I then began with a racing heart and insomnia and after the lack of sleep I began into a fog and then lo and behold the disconnect. Wasn’t sure if my brain was throwing me into protective mode. Praying all is resolved soon. Thank you again❤️
@@applej3496how are you now? Did you find anything that helped?
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That’s a horrible feeling. I’m so sorry. 😢 By chance did you have a floroquinolone antibiotic, such as Cipro or Levaquin? Both can cause DP/DR.
@@PeaceIsYeshuamy father did when he had CFS I have CFS fybromyalgia heds rccx gene theory seams our body's shut down with stressor
I didn’t get the how
That's a fair point! Sorry if you felt this seminar lacked details. We did another seminar with more on the nitty gritty of how the brain retraining treatment works here: ruclips.net/video/N7UEWx5QQTM/видео.html
And we've written a roadmap for unlearning chronic pain and fatigue syndromes like Long Covid here on our site, which has links for how to put the diagnosis and treatment into action:
www.thismighthurtfilm.com/unlearningpain
And of course, we made an immersive feature film that explores the treatment in depth.
Thanks and wishing you well!
@@ThisMightHurt Thanks to you all for sharing your experiences and the links to these invaluable resources for FREE. I really appreciate it!
I wasted an hour listening to this and there was no mention of how to actually retrain your brain.
I'm sorry you feel frustrated. We wrote a comprehensive roadmap for unlearning chronic symptoms using brain retraining here: thismighthurtfilm.com/unlearningpain