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Episode 41 – Managing Hopelessness When it Feels Like “Nothing is working”

We’ve all been there. You feel like you are doing everything but nothing seems to be working. You’ve hit a plateau or you’ve gone backwards in your healing. In this episode Anna offers support around the experience of hopelessness including a trauma-informed framework to move from the powerlessness that accompanies lack of hope to a more powerful state. She wraps up the episodes by challenging the belief “Nothing is working” by offering a checklist to make sure that is really true.

May 26, 2023 No Comments

Episode 40 – How to support a loved one with Chronic Fatigue – Part 2

In part 2 of this series Anna covers communication, needs and a framework for understanding relationship dynamics. The goal of the episode is to support communication so that both the illness experiencer and their supporters have their needs met. The relationship framework will help deepen your understanding of your relationships so that you are not left disappointed (and unsupported) when your expectations are not met.

May 19, 2023 No Comments

Episode 39 – How to Support a Loved One with Chronic Fatigue – Part 1

This is part 1 of a 2 part series for those experiencing a chronic illness (like CFS/ME) and their supporters. In this episode Anna discusses relationship dynamics and how they influence the ability of loved one’s to offer support and the ability of those with a chronic illness to ask for and receive support. Anna discusses the survey results from the research on this topic and offers solutions so that supporters feel better equipped to support and illness experiencers feel better equipped to receive support.

May 12, 2023 No Comments

Episode 38 – Somatic Experiencing, Brain Retraining and Healing Updates

In this episode Anna explains the differences in Brain Retraining and Somatic Experiencing in theory and practise. She talks about her own experience with these different modalities and shares some updates on her own healing journey working somatically with medical trauma and anaesthesia. She finished with a discussion about where Functional Medicine and Mind-Body Work intersects.

May 5, 2023 No Comments

Episode 37 – How to have better periods with ME/CFS: Part 3 – Supporting Your Hormones Naturally

This is part 3 in a 3 part series on how to have better periods with CFS/ME. Anna wraps up the three part series by discussing how we can support the body generally and how to manage estrogen dominance – a common underlying cause of hormone imbalance – more specifically.

April 28, 2023 No Comments

Episode 36 – How to Have Better Periods with ME/CFS: Part 2 – Testing Your Hormones

This episode is a short and sweet menu of different testing options for your sex hormones. Anna covers blood and urine testing options as well as home monitoring devices. Learn how to make sure you test at the right time in your cycle and possible genetic tests that can be useful.

April 21, 2023 No Comments

Episode 35 – How to have better periods with ME/CFS: Part 1 – What does a healthy cycle look like?

April 14, 2023 No Comments

Episode 34 – Mindset and Fatigue Recovery

In this episode Anna offers a framework and a toolbox to support fatigue recovery from a “mindset perspective”. Although it is hard to separate mind and body, we can influence our physiology from the top down using language, cognition, reasoning and voluntary movement. Anna touches on how you can use the power of these tools to help you get “unstuck” in your chronic illness experience.

April 7, 2023 No Comments

Episode 33 – Weight Gain, Body Image and Fatigue Recovery

Navigating a fatigue recovery experience can also come hand in hand with navigating changes in body, shape, and size. For some, this is just part of the process and for others, it can be an uncomfortable experience. In this episode, Anna explains why we might gain weight in fatigue recovery and where weight loss fits in the context of fatigue recovery. She shares guidance for managing food and exercise in support of healthy body weight and minimising weight gain. She ends with a short discussion about where the nervous system may intersect with our attitudes toward weight, exercise, and food.

March 31, 2023 No Comments

Episode 32 – Neurotransmitters

Anna shares her perspective on addressing imbalance neurotransmitters in fatigue recovery. She zooms out and offers an understanding about how taking a big picture view can be much more successful and beneficial in the long term.

March 24, 2023 No Comments

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