Glad to hear you are doing much better! So am i! Shout out to all those that are staying strong fighting this invisible illness.... my 2 year anniversary coming up in June. God bless you🙏
Mandy you are so amazing !! I am so thankful I found your channel. You give me so much encouragement!! I fell suddenly ,chronically ill a little over a year ago and am still looking for diagnosis, and feel so overwhelmed daily. I will be going to my first functional medical doctor appointment next month and so excited about it . I want to thank you for sharing your time and energy with us by being so authentic and sharing your journey with us. You are the friend that so many need in their life . Blessings to you💕
Thank you for this post. You spoke to so many things. God knew I needed to hear someone else say they were pushing and feeling overwhelmed etc. Lastly, I am thankful you spoke to the mold issue. I feel it is such a hidden and unaddressed problem the more we speak to it the more people will find healing and understanding. I am praying for you and the lives God plans to touch through you
Amazing how 1 yr ago your video in the finding DNRS was like a healing itself, you were as if Healed. But it’s still valid that how your brain gets hope-candy... and we nearly go manic in happiness. Then life keeps going on with its curve balls. But it still shows how powerful the brain is if we can control how we respond.
Hey Mandy! I always love your videos. You are such an inspiration. I was wondering if you would be willing to do a video on how your relationship with your family and friends has changed with chronic illness and how you cope with the differences. Thanks!
I can’t wait to hear more about the education you’ve learned in your nutrition program! I’m actually interested in doing it myself but I’m in college right now so I’m a little hesitant that it might be too much. Praying for your continual healing and I know God is using your story in big ways!! :)
Mandy, thanks for sharing your feelings of being overwhelmed. I've just been praying for you. May God's Spirit lead you to his best for you today and in each day ahead.
Thank you for your words of encouragement about trusting God with your circumstances. I've been dealing with some health issues for awhile now, and I've been feeling very defeated, frustrated, worried etc. I really needed to hear what you said about doing what you can, and trusting God with the rest. We can only do so much, and it's all in God's timing. Thank you for sharing your journey!
Hi everyone, I don’t comment often but i felt the need to ask for prayers right now. First, a little bit of backstory: I am currently 16 years old but I’ve suffered from chronic pain almost all over my body (mostly in my back, hips, knees, neck, and ankles) for almost 5 years. I’ve been watching Mandy every since she began documenting her journey and I was drawn to her because I knew that she is someone who understands me and that was something that I still have never really been able to find. Although this journey has been very difficult, seeing Mandy’s positivity has really encouraged me to keep praying and to keep fighting even when it’s really hard. With that being said, i have recently been given a potential diagnosis, but it’s not good. There is a chance that the source and the reason for all of this pain that I have been in is the presence of either an ovarian cyst, or worse, ovarian cancer. I’ll be getting the proper ultrasounds later this week to find out for sure. While I’ve been praying for an answer and a diagnosis for this pain for years I don’t want this to be the answer. The thought of the possibility of ovarian cancer scares me to death and it’s really hard for me to understand how this can be what God wants for me. Amway, I’m sorry for writing so much but I’ve become extremely overwhelmed with this news and this was a place where I felt safe to share it. All I ask for is prayers right now. Thank you❤️ and I’m sorry for writing so much
Holy 💯 on the confusion and battling to figure out my health issues and trying to remember to 🙏 it's so hard when traditional doctors treat u like u're crazy. I live in NY, which is a state that does not recognize functional medicine doctors as doctors, but I'm considering going out of state at this point.
@@MandyMeehan they're allowed to practice here but not allowed to be doctors or even order blood work for that matter or any clinical testing. So unless u manage to find a Dr who's willing to work with u in conjunction with a functional (😂) u're out of luck. I live upstate and I've found a functional dr in Vermont that's a hour away that I'm probably going to give a shot.
Not having a clear direction is my middle name. Mental health raising 3 boys and STILL chasing my own dream can definitely make me confused and flustered on what to do and what's beneficial. Great video
This was nice. 😊 Sigh. My kids are overwhelming me and it's really impacting my ability to progress in trying to get rid of my chronic illness. I wish they were old enough to go to school.
Thank you so much for continuously sharing your story and journey and through that inspiring so many people including me! Today this particular video spoke directly to me and my situation so thank you so much for being part of God's answer to my prayer!
I'm learning to give myself more grace too. Those verses you mentioned are my life verses. God's word helps every time; He helps us to rely on grace through many adverse situations. Thank you for sharing from your heart.
Being overwhelmed is not "good" as you say in this video when you have CFS/Fibro etc. as the symptoms of these illnesses all result from the maladaptive stress response/overdrive of sympathetic nervous system (DNRS calls it a limbic system impairment), The best thing to do is get real tools to deal with any and all stressors and learn ever day to decrease overwhelm, stress, frustration, sadness, etc, anything that keeps us from being in a "healing state" (Optimum Health Clinic in UK, the largest CFS clinic I believe, uses this term). If I feel overwhelmed in any way I tap (EFT) increase mediation, do my breathing. It is wonderful to feel comforted with the bible, friends, etc. but that does not necessarily bring down one's stress level about what ever issues are bothering us. I have basically been following a lot of OHC advise and do 40 minutes of daily mindfulness mediation a day, Do EFT (I do fasterEFT/Eutaptics) everyday and stop all stressful though patterns, cultivated a lot of self love and compassion with help of Louise Hay and other emotional/spiritual work and have gone from barely sleeping and shuffling around my house to now walking 3 miles a day (I started at 5 minutes a day months ago, in the past month I went from 2 miles a day to 3). Diet is an important but small part as I had the same diet when I was very ill to now when I am much better and now have even successfully been introducing back limited amounts of dairy, gluten and other things and feel great. I still have some symptoms but have slowly brought my stress response down and every single month/6 week period I have made small but steady improvements, with faster improvements the past 2 months (It is a virtuous cycle as the more I see myself improving see full health in the near future the less stress/the less I am living in fear). The biggest stress we have with these illnesses is the symptoms and the illness. Here is a recovery story published yesterday of a client of the OHC who talks about using the tools that the OHC uses daily (meditation, EFT, and and their "Stop" process which is used to stop any type of stressful thinking/stressful thought patterns, thoughts about symptoms, illness etc.) ruclips.net/video/NHaAPzNP-kE/видео.html
There are other CFS/Fibromyalgia/POTS/MCS (other than the OHC and DNRS) which put the central nervous system dysfunction at the root cause of these illnesses, The Gupta Programme and CFS Rewire (see CFS Unravelled youtube channel). Look at all recovery stores for evidence. I bought a subscription to The Optimum Health Clinic's Secrets To Recovery website and it has about 20 recovery stories and over 100 hours of helpful audios, which I continue to listen to and find helpful. There are lots recovery stories on OHC's RUclips channel also.
The confusing thing is now you are talking about mold illness when you previously stated that you found the "root cause" of your CFS and that it was "heavy metals." You talked about your treatment for "heavy metals" a few months ago, did you have any results? I think it is great that you are pursing this for yourself as you feel it is important and great that talking about your experience on your channel but do you think you should be advocating finding a functional medicine "root cause" and working with a functional medicine practitioner for other people before you have had positive results?
I feel like food and functional medicine (everything is toxicity or deficiency mindset) is your current belief system (especially combined with what you are studying right now/the career you have planned ) so that you are maybe not wanting to see that thus far you have received very limited benefits from all this.
Hey Eveline, I totally get where you are coming from. I think it’s tough when you are getting little snapshots of what is going on in my mind and my life, without truly being able to get the full context. When it comes to the “root cause”, it is never just one thing. It all goes down to my body not being able to detoxify well, and then many stressors (chemical toxins, some heavy metals, and likely mold toxicity) all that caused damage to my brain. When it comes to making progress, I have made very really and exciting steps in the right direction. Of everything I’ve done, working with a great functional medicine practitioner has been most helpful for me. DNRS has been very helpful too, but not as much as working with a FM practitioner. All that to say, working with an fmd isn’t necessarily for everyone, but it has been incredibly helpful for me. I’m excited to continue to retrain my brain around my triggers, but it can be really challenging to do that when I’m continuing to be re-exposed to them without realizing it. Hope that helps bring a little more context. I know what’s helped you might be a different approach, and that’s okay. 💜
Just realized you were probably referring to my tummy bug symptoms... It does sound a little like pregnancy, ha! I started my period soon after, so it's not pregnancy, but your comment makes more sense now. 😉😂
Mandy Meehan lol Yes I was like that sounds like morning sickness 😂 after my 3rd baby I lost so much blood and had 6 blood transfusions. I think I have chronic fatigue because it’s hard for me to get up and do things I get really dizzy and when I get like that I have a hard time seeing.. it’s really weird but then I started doing some research and I feel like that’s why I can’t handle many tasks.. I tried to talk to someone about it and they were saying I was probably depressed and I’m not I know my own body... I can’t go see a dr though because I don’t have insurance so I’ve been following a lot of stuff you do and also my grandma is a nutritionist so she has given me a lot of advice and vitamins I take daily so I’m praying it will go away one day but it’s been about 8 months of struggling! You give me so much hope in your videos and I love your Trader Joe’s hauls! I started shopping there all the time lol they have great deals. Thanks for being you ❤️🌸🌼🌺
Glad to hear you are doing much better! So am i! Shout out to all those that are staying strong fighting this invisible illness.... my 2 year anniversary coming up in June. God bless you🙏
Woohoo! Yes! So thankful for progress. 🙌🏼
Mandy you are so amazing !! I am so thankful I found your channel. You give me so much encouragement!! I fell suddenly ,chronically ill a little over a year ago and am still looking for diagnosis, and feel so overwhelmed daily. I will be going to my first functional medical doctor appointment next month and so excited about it . I want to thank you for sharing your time and energy with us by being so authentic and sharing your journey with us. You are the friend that so many need in their life . Blessings to you💕
Aw! I hate that you've had to walk through a similar path, but I'm so glad that my videos have been helpful. Hugs! 💕
Thank you for this post. You spoke to so many things. God knew I needed to hear someone else say they were pushing and feeling overwhelmed etc. Lastly, I am thankful you spoke to the mold issue. I feel it is such a hidden and unaddressed problem the more we speak to it the more people will find healing and understanding. I am praying for you and the lives God plans to touch through you
So glad! I agree, mold toxicity definitely needs to be talked about more!
Amazing how 1 yr ago your video in the finding DNRS was like a healing itself, you were as if Healed. But it’s still valid that how your brain gets hope-candy... and we nearly go manic in happiness.
Then life keeps going on with its curve balls.
But it still shows how powerful the brain is if we can control how we respond.
You are a light, Mandy!
Hey Mandy! I always love your videos. You are such an inspiration.
I was wondering if you would be willing to do a video on how your relationship with your family and friends has changed with chronic illness and how you cope with the differences. Thanks!
Great idea
I can’t wait to hear more about the education you’ve learned in your nutrition program! I’m actually interested in doing it myself but I’m in college right now so I’m a little hesitant that it might be too much. Praying for your continual healing and I know God is using your story in big ways!! :)
Thanks, Emmy! It's been amazing. I'll have to do a video dedicated to the actual training sometime soon.
Mandy, thanks for sharing your feelings of being overwhelmed. I've just been praying for you. May God's Spirit lead you to his best for you today and in each day ahead.
Gentle hugs for you Mandy. 🌷🦋💜
Hugs!
Thank you for your words of encouragement about trusting God with your circumstances. I've been dealing with some health issues for awhile now, and I've been feeling very defeated, frustrated, worried etc. I really needed to hear what you said about doing what you can, and trusting God with the rest. We can only do so much, and it's all in God's timing. Thank you for sharing your journey!
I feel you girl! Glad it was encouraging. 💕
Hi everyone, I don’t comment often but i felt the need to ask for prayers right now. First, a little bit of backstory: I am currently 16 years old but I’ve suffered from chronic pain almost all over my body (mostly in my back, hips, knees, neck, and ankles) for almost 5 years. I’ve been watching Mandy every since she began documenting her journey and I was drawn to her because I knew that she is someone who understands me and that was something that I still have never really been able to find. Although this journey has been very difficult, seeing Mandy’s positivity has really encouraged me to keep praying and to keep fighting even when it’s really hard. With that being said, i have recently been given a potential diagnosis, but it’s not good. There is a chance that the source and the reason for all of this pain that I have been in is the presence of either an ovarian cyst, or worse, ovarian cancer. I’ll be getting the proper ultrasounds later this week to find out for sure. While I’ve been praying for an answer and a diagnosis for this pain for years I don’t want this to be the answer. The thought of the possibility of ovarian cancer scares me to death and it’s really hard for me to understand how this can be what God wants for me. Amway, I’m sorry for writing so much but I’ve become extremely overwhelmed with this news and this was a place where I felt safe to share it. All I ask for is prayers right now. Thank you❤️ and I’m sorry for writing so much
Praying for you, Abigail!
The NTA program is intense & full of information! You’re doing awesome! I felt overwhelmed in that time also.
Thanks Lisa! It is so good, and soooo much. Have you graduated?
Mandy Meehan Yes ma’am I finished up in November.
Good to hear from you again
Continuing prayers for you my friend. Thank you for all you do
Thanks so much, James!
@@MandyMeehan Your welcome My friend.
Good work on the video. Love you ❤️
Holy 💯 on the confusion and battling to figure out my health issues and trying to remember to 🙏 it's so hard when traditional doctors treat u like u're crazy. I live in NY, which is a state that does not recognize functional medicine doctors as doctors, but I'm considering going out of state at this point.
Oh girl, that's so tough. Have you tried this website? I bet you could find a practitioner somewhere in NY!
www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/
@@MandyMeehan they're allowed to practice here but not allowed to be doctors or even order blood work for that matter or any clinical testing. So unless u manage to find a Dr who's willing to work with u in conjunction with a functional (😂) u're out of luck. I live upstate and I've found a functional dr in Vermont that's a hour away that I'm probably going to give a shot.
Praying for you ❤️
Thanks Sarah 🙌🏽
Not having a clear direction is my middle name. Mental health raising 3 boys and STILL chasing my own dream can definitely make me confused and flustered on what to do and what's beneficial. Great video
It's so real. I've loved the transparency in your videos! I've gotten to watch a few recently. I need to be better at commenting. 😉🙌🏼
This was nice. 😊
Sigh. My kids are overwhelming me and it's really impacting my ability to progress in trying to get rid of my chronic illness. I wish they were old enough to go to school.
Im sure that’s very challenging. Praying for strength!
Thank you so much for continuously sharing your story and journey and through that inspiring so many people including me! Today this particular video spoke directly to me and my situation so thank you so much for being part of God's answer to my prayer!
I totally get what you are saying about being excited about getting a cold or flu bug. :)
I'm learning to give myself more grace too. Those verses you mentioned are my life verses. God's word helps every time; He helps us to rely on grace through many adverse situations. Thank you for sharing from your heart.
Love that they are your life verses! So good!
Praying
Thanks 💕
Being overwhelmed is not "good" as you say in this video when you have CFS/Fibro etc. as the symptoms of these illnesses all result from the maladaptive stress response/overdrive of sympathetic nervous system (DNRS calls it a limbic system impairment), The best thing to do is get real tools to deal with any and all stressors and learn ever day to decrease overwhelm, stress, frustration, sadness, etc, anything that keeps us from being in a "healing state" (Optimum Health Clinic in UK, the largest CFS clinic I believe, uses this term). If I feel overwhelmed in any way I tap (EFT) increase mediation, do my breathing. It is wonderful to feel comforted with the bible, friends, etc. but that does not necessarily bring down one's stress level about what ever issues are bothering us. I have basically been following a lot of OHC advise and do 40 minutes of daily mindfulness mediation a day, Do EFT (I do fasterEFT/Eutaptics) everyday and stop all stressful though patterns, cultivated a lot of self love and compassion with help of Louise Hay and other emotional/spiritual work and have gone from barely sleeping and shuffling around my house to now walking 3 miles a day (I started at 5 minutes a day months ago, in the past month I went from 2 miles a day to 3). Diet is an important but small part as I had the same diet when I was very ill to now when I am much better and now have even successfully been introducing back limited amounts of dairy, gluten and other things and feel great. I still have some symptoms but have slowly brought my stress response down and every single month/6 week period I have made small but steady improvements, with faster improvements the past 2 months (It is a virtuous cycle as the more I see myself improving see full health in the near future the less stress/the less I am living in fear). The biggest stress we have with these illnesses is the symptoms and the illness. Here is a recovery story published yesterday of a client of the OHC who talks about using the tools that the OHC uses daily (meditation, EFT, and and their "Stop" process which is used to stop any type of stressful thinking/stressful thought patterns, thoughts about symptoms, illness etc.) ruclips.net/video/NHaAPzNP-kE/видео.html
There are other CFS/Fibromyalgia/POTS/MCS (other than the OHC and DNRS) which put the central nervous system dysfunction at the root cause of these illnesses, The Gupta Programme and CFS Rewire (see CFS Unravelled youtube channel). Look at all recovery stores for evidence. I bought a subscription to The Optimum Health Clinic's Secrets To Recovery website and it has about 20 recovery stories and over 100 hours of helpful audios, which I continue to listen to and find helpful. There are lots recovery stories on OHC's RUclips channel also.
Yes! This is why I started back DNRS again. Brain retraining is such an important factor....this just wasn’t a focus for the video for this day. 🙌🏼
OOOH - - Is that why i'm not getting sick?
I've not been sick in a long long time!
I don't sleep well either.
I was wondering why
Yes! It's super interesting, right!?
@@MandyMeehan 😨 guess I should get ready for the devil of all colds?
Have you heard of William Anthony? :)
Do you mean Anthony William, (Medical Medium)? If so, yes! I hear about him a lot. I’m personally not a big fan.
I‘m trying his plan in a week :) I‘ll see how it goes
The confusing thing is now you are talking about mold illness when you previously stated that you found the "root cause" of your CFS and that it was "heavy metals." You talked about your treatment for "heavy metals" a few months ago, did you have any results? I think it is great that you are pursing this for yourself as you feel it is important and great that talking about your experience on your channel but do you think you should be advocating finding a functional medicine "root cause" and working with a functional medicine practitioner for other people before you have had positive results?
I feel like food and functional medicine (everything is toxicity or deficiency mindset) is your current belief system (especially combined with what you are studying right now/the career you have planned ) so that you are maybe not wanting to see that thus far you have received very limited benefits from all this.
Hey Eveline,
I totally get where you are coming from. I think it’s tough when you are getting little snapshots of what is going on in my mind and my life, without truly being able to get the full context.
When it comes to the “root cause”, it is never just one thing. It all goes down to my body not being able to detoxify well, and then many stressors (chemical toxins, some heavy metals, and likely mold toxicity) all that caused damage to my brain.
When it comes to making progress, I have made very really and exciting steps in the right direction. Of everything I’ve done, working with a great functional medicine practitioner has been most helpful for me. DNRS has been very helpful too, but not as much as working with a FM practitioner.
All that to say, working with an fmd isn’t necessarily for everyone, but it has been incredibly helpful for me. I’m excited to continue to retrain my brain around my triggers, but it can be really challenging to do that when I’m continuing to be re-exposed to them without realizing it.
Hope that helps bring a little more context. I know what’s helped you might be a different approach, and that’s okay. 💜
Why do your hands always look orange colored 😕? .... anyways love watching your videos ☺️
Really?! 😂😂 I have no idea. I’ve never noticed that, or have heard that.
Lol I’ve noticed it in the past few videos 😬 ... maybe it’s just me
This is gonna sound weird but I have to ask lol are you pregnant? Those symptoms sound like my pregnancy with my last baby lol I love babies 😊
Haha, definitely not pregnant. I've been dealing with about the same symptoms for the last 2 1/2 years. :)
Mandy Meehan Awh Darn lol but at least you can get yourself healthy first ❤️😊
2 and Counting That’s the plan 😊🙌🏽
Just realized you were probably referring to my tummy bug symptoms... It does sound a little like pregnancy, ha! I started my period soon after, so it's not pregnancy, but your comment makes more sense now. 😉😂
Mandy Meehan lol Yes I was like that sounds like morning sickness 😂 after my 3rd baby I lost so much blood and had 6 blood transfusions. I think I have chronic fatigue because it’s hard for me to get up and do things I get really dizzy and when I get like that I have a hard time seeing.. it’s really weird but then I started doing some research and I feel like that’s why I can’t handle many tasks.. I tried to talk to someone about it and they were saying I was probably depressed and I’m not I know my own body... I can’t go see a dr though because I don’t have insurance so I’ve been following a lot of stuff you do and also my grandma is a nutritionist so she has given me a lot of advice and vitamins I take daily so I’m praying it will go away one day but it’s been about 8 months of struggling! You give me so much hope in your videos and I love your Trader Joe’s hauls! I started shopping there all the time lol they have great deals. Thanks for being you ❤️🌸🌼🌺
you are gorgeous lol
lol, thank you
I totally get what you are saying about being excited about getting a cold or flu bug. :)
It’s a funny emotion to feel 😂