Rebel Health Radio: Recent Episodes
Patricia Worby
New revolutionary health ideas that will blow your mind: books and resources reviewed and discussed for you so you can inform yourself to make better choices in healthcare. From biofield resonance to the microbiome and beyond, if it exists to help us heal ourselves, I'm there! With interviews with like minded health-seekers, book reviews, discussions and Q&A sessions to find out more about this new, expanding medicine coming on-stream now that blows out of the water the old model of medicine based on symptom suppression and drugs. It's more efficient, it's more sustainable and it works! Stay tuned.
Looking at a new concept in medicine - that of decentralisation - taking back control and making surprising but simple changes to your lifestyle to enhance health.
Find Dr Boon Lim's talk for the Awakening Heart Collective here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksXwEf6ZWU&feature=youtu.be
00:00 Intro to decentralised medicine - taking back control of your health. Especially important in chronic conditions like CFS/ME which are not dealt with well by conventional medicine.
03:07 Integrative medicine - Dr Boon Lim as an example - a cardiologist who uses HRV as well as more conventional methods, to measure your autonomic (nervous system) health- the importance of breath to regulate.
06:40 Sunlight as a nutrient - not just foods supply this. Better than supplementation as it helps boost mitochondrial function without the limitation of poor digestion. Autonomic regulation (vagal toning, etc) is much more likely to benefit those with low energy/immunity.
08:36 We need daylight every day through the skin and eyes. Huge difference in irradiance between indoors and outdoors so exercise outdoors. Important for eye health and inflammatory brain disease like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
11:15 Sound like binaural beats - helps brain coherence (resonance) and change your brain state away from beta (fight and flight) to alpha (rest and digest/flow state). Input vs. output. Dysautonomia common in long covid.
13:31 EMDR - Eye movement densitisation and reprocessing helps us reprocess childhood trauma as over that then stops triggering your autonomic nervous system unconsciously.
14:43 Taking back control - some innovative clinicians are working within the centralised system enables you to work as a team.
16:50 My history from centralised to decentralised. (Imperial College to solo practitioner). Promotes personalised medicine. Future talks for the Awakening Heart Collection.
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70's child star Lena Zavaroni was plucked from obscurity to international fame at the age of 10 and sent to live away hundreds of miles away from her family with people who seemingly only wanted to make money from her. When she began suffering from anorexia at age 13, her illness forced her to abandon her TV career and by the time she was in her 30s she ended up penniless and living on benefits. Lonely and desperate to cure her condition she begged to have a very risky brain operation (leucotomy) and died from pneumonia a few weeks later at the age of 35.
This sobering story which was aired on UK TV last week showed the price of fame and the terrible aftereffects of losing connection from those you love (an attachment wound). This affects the development of the child's brain and makes addiction much more likely.
Hear how she could have been treated today. Here's Byron Katie's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGxPa8jmWI
00:00 Intro Lena is spotted by a talent scout and she is signed up by agents and taken to live with them in London where she was catapulted into fame.
06:47 After being diagnosed at 13 with anorexia (having been told to lose weight by the agents) life becomes a lot tougher as it began to take her over.
09:03 Her death at 35 is unsurprising given her traumatic history - a form of relinquishment (abandonment) trauma which was never resolved.
11:30 An internal feeling of unsafety often expresses itself in addiction. The presence of being seen and felt (unconditional love) is so vital to brain development.
13:00 Byron Katie's work of inquiry helps people to resolve to deeply held beliefs that cause us to suffer. Anorexia is a coping strategy for what's missing in brain development.
17:00 Building a sense of internal safety. Rewriting your story...
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Most people find anxiety so agonising that they will do anything to shift it. But sadly the techniques of analysing thoughts and symptoms do little to alleviate what is a body-based issue overlaid with fear and shame.
It's time to change the paradigm of healing from mind to body, from fixating on 'fixing the problem', removing the symptoms and instead focus on what the body is trying to tell you and how you can listen.
00:00 Intro
02:00 Chronic anxiety can be caused by unprocessed unconscious memory overlaid with fear about what symptoms mean - a psychological imprint in your autonomic nervous system - the 3 levels.
05:00 What symptoms are - feedback from the body - why talking/analysing doesn't work. Tools to get you out of your head and into your heart
08:00 The toxic stress load (acute and chronic) that we are all under has become part of our culture. Emotional blueprint overlays the genetics and directs it. The cortisol link.
11:00 The personality as an adaptation not your true self. Overthinking as a roadblock. Let go to get well. Body based feedback. The importance of compassion to overturn maladaptive beliefs.
12:00 A hard lesson to learn. Gathering information doesn't change the program. Somatic soothing tools use vagal toning to create a sense of internal safety.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Find my book The Highly Sensitive Handbook here https://mybook.to/HSHandbook
00:00 Intro to Neurodiversity and High Sensitivity - my book The Highly Sensitive Handbook looked at this
02:00 Neurodiversity is common but misunderstood - higher sensitivity and ADHD - differences
03:48 ADHD Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder - common symptoms or traits: of disorganisation, emotional dysregulation, dopamine functioning - executive functioning deficits
08:38 Troubled multi-tasking, distractibility, difficulty awaiting your turn (makes you REALLY anxious), difficulty staying still, sex differences: women and girls mask much more than boys and men, higher rate of anxiety of depression, low self-esteem,
14:00 Contentious issues of childhood trauma in the development of neurodiversity, creates a predisposition to chronic depression - unresolved issues from childhood
15.58: How to deal with these issues - diagnosis is helpful in some cases, but not universally accepted. Acceptance is more helpful to living a whole and sustaining life. Healing the past.
17:37 Physical changes you can make, sleep (quality of light), diet and exercise (moving more in the outdoors). Avoiding addictive tendencies.
19:56 Getting relationships that nurture you. Poor boundaries will exhaust you if you don't limit. Supportive communities help to counter isolation. Nature connectedness.
You might like to join my monthly sensitive/CFS/ME recovery community for support and discussion.
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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See my book Life Illuminated https://mybook.to/LifeIlum for more information.
and for the video that inspired this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllNLJi1S0Q
and Lumenate app (go to Google play store or Apple store). There is a basic free option.
00:00 Intro and how light interacts with mitochondria along the electron transport chain
03:00 Lack of natural daylight impacts our bodies particularly in hospitals
06:17 Solutions - daylight lamps, exercising outside, gives us infrared light to provide our nervous system with energy.
08:50 Developmental considerations - from birth to aging
11:40 Lumenate app review
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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How is it that some people are able to enjoy a drink or smoke and do not get addicted? Why are some people unable to stop? It's all to do with the craving brain...
00:00 Intro - Dealing with craving is not a matter of willpower as it is an unconscious process of the survival response
01:50 Liam Payne - the stimulus of fame and then rejection is overwhelming to a sensitised brain
02:49 Not a moral failure - the importance of 12 step programmes to provide safety in a tribe but it often fails when people leave
04:39 Human brain is 3 brains in one - but the cognitive is only 10-15% of your functioning. The back brain is much more important in driving actions and behaviours
06:13 The way the craving brain works - the seeking system does not turn off in a sensitised brain because of low levels of serotonin - a neuroregulator
08:12 The neuroscience of craving - past chronic inescapable stresses makes the brain unable to regulate itself.
10:00 How medication, 12 step and psychotherapy intervene between the stressed brain and the response.
11:00 Biobalancing the brain with safety signals from the tribe when with others who support you.
13:00 What is stress? physical, hormonal, mental/emotional inputs combine together with childhood unconscious stress to change the brain and produce fear, worry and guilt.
15:00 Self-awareness is a double edged sword. Can create fear/anxiety originating from back brain beliefs and feelings which have been repressed
17:02 Some fears are hard-wired and along with experiences accumulate over time to drive a seeking brain.
18:84 How to create a sense of safety within using the power of touch to stimulate calming brainwaves - gamma, beta, alpha, theta, delta.
21:00 Some people are more susceptible to stress. We need to teach these psychosensory methods, particularly working with a practitioner.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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We are in a battle currently where conventional science attempts to explain healing - via neuroscience particularly in a bit to legitimise what, for many, are 'unscientific' or 'pseudoscience' of holistic methods such as psychosensory therapy. The difficulty is in not losing the spontaneity and art of healing which is in many ways a completely opposite approach. Here I detail what I've learned through my decades of research and practice and my foot in both camps.
00:00 Intro and the battle between scientific and holistic methods which mirrors my own history
02:34 The marketisation of therapy via symptom based alleviation which ensures other methods are dismissed for lack of scientific explanation.
05:50 How EFT works - the vagus nerve electro-stimulation and how EMDR and havening works. All are bottom up approaches unlike talk therapy
07:04 the importance of unconscious beliefs stored as sensory impressions from childhood.
08:42 healing as a process which is non-linear - allows for spontaneity magic and intuition - what I call 'the shift'.
10:45 the rapid advances in neuroscience has limitations in explaining everything, particularly the tipping point (maybe at the cellular level in the cell danger response)
12:26 why do people get stuck? unconscious processes going on 'under the hood', requires willingness to engage with uncertainty
14:09 An interaction with the client and therapist - an energetic phenomenon. An individuality to the process, an understanding of the uncertainty of the process.
16:40 Holistic Inventions build on the backs of previous ones. TFT, EFT, EMDR and self-havening.
21:02 The trouble with the 'fix it' mentality, need to address painful/difficult experiences before you rewire them - for instance phobias which de-link the experience and the emotional response.
24:18 Can we expand our willingness to share knowledge and explore intuitive understanding of healing.
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For the paper I'm referring to go here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830718301848
for last weeks introductory talk about Ronald Ruden's discovery go here https://youtu.be/kltZn4ji3Tc
Ronald has also written two superb books When the Past is Always Present and The Craving Brain
For a typical discussion on depression and anxiety (albeit a very helpful one but one which doesn't mention the traumatic origin) see here with neuroscientist David Eagleman. Although they touch on electrotherapy as a possible solution.
00:00 Intro and what's missing from the discussion on anxiety and depression
02:00 Brain is a pattern matching organ - responses to meaning are what interpret your environment create disturbed brain chemistry from Adverse childhood events and/or were a highly sensitive child
05:00 Brain structures that mediate stress - amygdala can be chronically encoded.
07:40 A new model of depression and anxiety as symptoms of traumatic stress creating an ongoing stress response and disturbance of brain function - fight, flight and freeze (fold/ collapse).
10:30 Childhood experiences landscape the brain re-triggered by current threats to self - an event (in person or vicarious), the emotional meaning of threat - all attachment losses
16:10 A vulnerable landscape - high stress brain. Sensitisation. Perceived inescapability (the most important). The one that we can change.
19:40 Trauma even in a good childhood - cumulative traumatic events can lead to symptoms later on in life. Difficulty matching symptoms to events therefore.
23:20 Solutions. examples with phobias. Can't change event, but can change the inescapability! Safe haven extinguishes the traumatic encoding in memory.
26:20 Touch signals safety. Encoded from birth. Wait til the memory feels less potent. May add a new ending (imaginally). Have eliminated the traumatic component.
31:02 After havening - posture and facial changes show release from a stress load. Mindbody an electrical system - dysfunctional circuitry can be changed by a change of brainwave states breaks the chain of unconscious (implicit) memory.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Please see this article for a scientific summary of the recent work of Ronald R Ruden in re-consolidating memory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830718301848#sec0003
This is the havening video i mention at 12.20
https://youtu.be/S6nQiNtuOoc
00:00 intro - Retraumatisation and implicit memory. Triggered memories change your neurobiology as you are overtaken by sensations which you can't contextualise.
02:34 How to overturn a cumulative sense of threat and Ronald R Ruden's recent work (see paper above) with psychosensory therapies which change the unconscious somatic imprint.
04:23 traumatic memories have particular features that cause chronic stress hormone release from the perceived allostatic (stress) load of the environment.
07:23 The importance of the glutamate pathways in the brain allow memory wiring (consolidation) and re-wiring - how havening accesses this and changes the brainwaves to a calmer flow state.
10:00 How the mindbody creates symptoms and the importance of emotions. Havening creates a neurological shift which translates to your cell's physiology
12:50 Changing the meaning you've made of a traumatic memory (whether personally experienced or witnessed) - generates an emotional response. Most threats are attachment wounds.
15:54 Needs an overwhelming, threatening event, a vulnerable landscape and inescapability.
18:21 Allowing imagining a new ending where you did escape (or we allow you to feel your safety now) removes one of the 4 essential criteria for keeping traumatic memory going.
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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In this book review I consider the idea that what we perceive as reality is in fact an interface much like seeing icons on your desktop. This is the astounding idea of scientist and philosopher Donald R Hoffman..
In this review find out what I thought of the book and its astonishing hypothesis of 'Fitness Beats Truth' (FBT) theorem and how it's the payoff for being able to interact with our world in a meaningful way that beats true perception of reality.
00:00 intro to book and his interface theory
02:50 conscious agents (that's us) interact with a simulation of the world
03:42 origin of consciousness - hard problem is solved if consciousness is fundamental
05:30 format of the book - a great idea but some formatting, style and repetition issues
07:44 position of conscious realism vs. panpsychism - the philosophical basis - immaterial?
09:51 Time expands and contracts depending on our focus/interaction
11:40 Final thoughts.
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See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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00:00 How Jenny started working with clients with CFS/ME
03:00 How the patterns became so clear led to explore solutions and begin teaching
05:06 High sensitivity and trauma combine with emotional responsibility
06:40 Jenny's approach interwoven with who she is and holding others in safety - no 'off the peg' solution. But did teach the compassion and acceptance of reparenting the inner child to others.
09:46 This is an art not a science - the clinical nature needs to go - ignores the witnessing, held in safety even in most healing models
11:14 Working while present allows for a creative solution that is client led - my model was Virginia Satir who really connected with the bodymind of her clients
13:46 The use of spirituality in working - knowing your purpose and where you belong - = a spiritual purpose grounded in presence - listening with the heart to what is NOT said
15:50 Looking for wholeness in connection with others and self is a refinement process
18:35 Intuitive /second sense of what is being presented - the real self vs. the false self
20:00 CFS/ME is a holding place/stasis of protection against vulnerability. Letting go of fear is the first step to healing.
22:16 What's going on in the world that leads you away from an inner knowing. A useful distraction to keep you hooked into world events and an authoritarian narrative
24:13 Social media drives a lot of the disconnection. Gender wars. Polarisation. Outsourced our power to others. Being yourself allows for diversity.
26:10 Being with uncertainty is the biggest negotiation we make on this journey. A dance of flexibility.
27:50 Whose side are you on? Counter to finding your own answers within. Communitarian mass media culture defines anyone who disagrees as rightwing/woke
30:49 You can still disagree and still be loved when you are self-directed and tuned into a collective consciousness that is willing to explore uncertainty and nuance. The dance of wholeness
32:46 women's voices in this space - needs fierce female leaders with heart - the elders/ crones/ wise women who shine a light on what's wrong and show by example.
34:35 you have agency - inspiring others to know this. Wild unleasing - true feminine energy/power
36:50 Final thoughts. Let go and let it unfold.
Find Jenny on openmindtherapy.co.uk and me on alchemytherapies.co.uk
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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The new film about photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller does not shirk the hard stuff. From covering the liberation of Europe (and especially the concentration camps) to her experience as woman excluded and violated in childhood.
00:00 Intro to Lee Miller: model, photographer and war correspondent.
02:56 War breaks out and how she got to be a war correspondent for the US government.
04:38 Liberation of the concentration camps and the effect on her and fellow photographer David Sherman
06:06 Why Lee chose to go into danger and conflict - how her personal experience of sexual abuse changed the course of her life. Trauma begets trauma as you seek the familiar.
08:50 Difficulty with relationships including that with her son Anthony no doubt affected by her alcoholism.
11:02 In denial of your vulnerability makes it difficult to parent. ACE's (adverse childhood experiences) live on as a feeling of unsafety in your life or body.
13:05 Tools and techniques to reverse the pattern stored in the body - rewriting unconscious responses are now available (sadly not for Lee and her trauma).
See my book Mind Medicine available now on amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindbody-Medicine-Unconscious-Reprocessing-Psychobiotics/dp/B0DG3MQ8DW
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Some extra ideas I had after reading this book.. on the 'unintelligence' of the mammalian retinal system' (see at 09:38)
Although I have covered some of this in the first recording I thought it was important to counter this argument.
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Anxiety is a common problem for athletes:
00:00 Intro and how I got into somatic trauma work
03:40 Chronic anxiety is a natural response to past experience stored in your body in a feedback loop with your limbic brain
06:50 The body cannot lie - it will reveal the truth of your unmet emotional needs from childhood as symptoms
09:20 Symptom suppression vs. root causes. Athletes can get symptoms of auto-immune, delayed healing, chronic pain, etc if underlying high achieving drivers become unbalanced. Ian's story.
15:03 Autonomic nervous system controls the body and is regulated by emotions. Autonomic safety (calm connection or neuroception) is necessary for healing and neurological co-regulation.
19:27 Trauma events can be one-off or more commonly complex PTSD from attachment wounding. Much more common with highly sensitive people (HSPs).
24:00 Symptom labels are limited being descriptive only. An example from an athlete we have both worked with:
1/ Betrayal of trust distorts your mindbody perception of self. Hyper-responsibility plays out as the child within unconsciously as feelings of shame transformed to worthiness.
34:50 High sensitivity (sensory processing sensitivity) correspond to 20% of population. Present in the womb, is a trait you are born with. Their needs are greater in childhood. Porous boundaries create overwhelm.
39:30 Adult reactions driven by past experience - coaches, trainers take the place of family but can be abusive relationships which retrigger past traumas.
44:00 What's changed in our environment that anxiety is so huge - social media onslaught, schooling system based on competition, achievement. Inter-generational trauma has built up. See The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. Much more pressure, less support leads to being bathed in cortisol which destroys us.
48:00 Competition vs. community. How the mind punishes the body if trained by trauma. Replacing despair with hope, love & gratitude is profoundly healing. Is a resonant system so emotions matter physiologically to restoring energy.
54:00 Heart mind resonance. Heart is not just a physiological pump but a resonance electromagnetic organ to connect with other living beings and our environment via its sensory system. Allowing your vulnerability and reaching out for help. Heart connection in practice.
59:00 How to connect with me. Books and courses.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).
Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.
Catch the original paper I am referring to here which outlines the medical benefits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902218300491
00:00 Intro to dark therapy/dark therapy/floatation (sometimes referred as sensory deprivation)
01:30 The practical aspects of floating in salty water - lighting, temperature are all controllable.
03:05 Why it works - muscular relaxation from floating in Epsom salts high in magnesium, feedback loop to brain is changed - reduction in anxiety from quieting the Default Mode Network
07:00 Neurological benefits - interoceptive feedback, increases heart rate variability HRV increases wellbeing
09:30 The hynogogic state increases internal focus and changes the DMN coupling away from mental chatter towards internal homoestasis
12:20 the effect of stress and changing your brainwaves. the importance of setting.
17:00 summary and thanks
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
How Health is more than fixing the problem but engaging with a wider perspective - a truly wholistic vision of purpose, beliefs and connection
We need to understand we are connected to a universal consciousness...
Find me on alchemytherapies.co.uk and patriciaworby.com
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).
Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
In my review of this most important book Understanding Living Systems by brothers Raymond and Denis Noble I show you how biology is beginning to move beyond the concept of the 'selfish gene' and turning to a more co-operative view of life.
Find out how cells are embedded in organisms and it is our intelligence and agency that allows us to modify our genes to achieve co-operation
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
By special request - more info from the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg on the importance of the myelin sheath in transmission of energy throughout the body - and what can go wrong with Electromagnetic pollution.
00:00 Intro to the book
02:00 The importance of electrical energy in healing damaged tissue - porphyrins as transmitters of energy within cells - haemoglobin in red blood cells
05:16 Electrical polarity of the brain can be reversed to cause anaesthesia, pain reduction and healing
08:00 Porphyrins are energy transmitters in the mitochondria (as cytochrome c in the electron transport chain) but also those in the myelin sheath complexed with zinc, (chlorophyll uses magnesium, haem uses Iron).
11:00 With a porphyrin manufacture problem excess precursors builds up in tissue along with excess zinc causing hyper excitability of the neurons - predisposes to electro-sensitivity and chronic fatigue syndrome?
13:06 Robert Becker's investigation in bioelectric healing in bone and nerves - electro-chemical transmission allows much of our activity
16:25 'Currents of injury' - point to another information system that allows regeneration and healing
18:17 Myelin sheaths/Schwann/glial cells are intimately involved in signal transmission and energy production in the brain and nervous system
19:45 Electro-chemical sensitivity may interact with high zinc in brain and nerves, and other parts of body. EDTA (a chelators) complexes Zn and will take it out the body and can reverse cognitive decline
22:00 90% of oxygen consumption occurs in brain from glial cells - myelin may be the major energy powerhouse completely independent of mitochondria
24:02 Excess zinc is everywhere in the environment, car tyres a major factor along with denture cream, water supply, etc.
25:40 Are highly sensitive people (HSP's) the canaries in the coalmine with problems in the porphyrin pathways? What can we do to protect ourselves particularly during sleep and add highly coloured foods into our diet.
Watch another video*
THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW PART 1 https://youtu.be/CYZFxL57paM
THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW PART 2 https://youtu.be/VgWSzIPBgHA
HEAL YOUR SPIRIT TO HEAL CFS/ME https://youtu.be/hXGaOjrV6PA
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
A book review and interpretation of Martha Beck's wonderfully illuminating book The Way of Integrity based on Dante's The Divine Comedy as a book of an existential midlife crisis!
Martha takes us through the process of recovery from this through
The Dark Wood of Error
The Inferno
Purgatory
Paradise
based on her experience and the lessons she learned about being true to yourself.
My take on this is told through the lens of the people I have worked with as well as my own experience
A great book. Find out why.
Find Martha Beck in conversation about the book with Elizabeth Gilbert here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O9mggILVkA
It's quite literally scintillating (full of light)
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Chronic or persistent pain is very different to acute pain both in origin and management. Find out the secret to overcoming this debilitating condition
00:00 Intro - reminder acute vs. chronic pain (nocioceptive, neuropathic vs. psychogenic)
03:41 Failures of inhibition pain signals - allodynia
05:00 Stress build up from unheard/ unacceptable emotions cause symptoms as a distractions
08:00 Unlearn your pain & other programs
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Healing is an act of self-organising feedback resonance within the body.Here I explain how I came to learn this and what you can do to promote it within your body.
Here is the video I talk about extensively The Secret Life of Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHbdrpy_Lg
Find me on alchemytherapies.co.uk
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Here I review the understanding put forward in the book The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno as long ago as 2006. Doctor Sarno was one of the first medical doctors to embrace the idea of psychosomatic medicine which he dubbed mind body disorder to avoid the negative connotation that psychosomatic was all in your head.
We now find many common conditions relate to what he referred to as TMS or Tension myoneural syndrome commonly expressed as chronic fatigue syndrome or Fibromyalgia but embracing many medically unexplained symptoms
00:00 Sarno's revolutionary ideas of psycho-somatic (mindbody) medicine
02:45 The divided mind - pain and emotional centres in the brain are closely linked
04:20 Unconscious emotions from early childhood repressed by personality traits of goodism, perfectionism as unacceptable
06:52 My story of unconscious repression of rage/ anger or rebellion plus guilt, fear or grief
09:25 The need for control - narcissism and the dismay when illness, divorce, etc strikes
12:16 past & present experience accumulate to speak for you - the symptom imperative
14:42 Biomedical medicine treats the body symptoms only
15:11 Other recommended books - including mine The Scar that won't Heal, The Hidden Psychology of Pain
16:29 Mainstream medicine slowly taking on this view. Accept the brain creates pain and deal with underlying emotions
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Explore with me the multi-dimensional nature of complex chronic exhaustive conditions and how you can heal.
See also Raelan Agle's fabulous channel @RaelanAgle and
The @crappychildhoodfairy
00:00 intro and importance of the mind in Recovery - which can and does happen!
02:12 CFS/ME is not a diagnosis but a description - there are no biomarkers for the condition is 'medically unexplained and it doesn't lead to an answer or plan for recovery.
04:13 Mindset means what you believe consciously and unconsciously - its not about positive thinking... getting out of denial and 'pushing through', keeping it hidden
06:00 The loads can be multiple on top of the previous stresses (including epigenetics and the unconscious emotional trauma) combines to form your total allostatic load in the terrain of the body
so the treatment path is very unclear
09:20 recovery starts with accepting you have a problem and something needs to change - the mindset shift. All complex chronic conditions have a mindbody component
10:50 what are the maps to recovery? nutritional supplementation which can be difficult to handle when depleted, physical/structural like Perrin technique, very intense and long.
14:35 Rewiring the nervous system like Dan Kneuffer's Re-wire, Chrysalis Effect, Gupta, Lightning Process, Reorigin programs. All work on the autonomic nervous system dysregulation.
16:20 Modern medicine is left hemisphere oriented and cannot look at all the various factors in such a multifactorial disease. Explore the various alternatives and get into recovery mindset.
17:50 The map for each individual are different but reaching out for help from people who have been through this so they understand the mind and body factors and how to shift the pattern
19:49 Personality factors, past experiences that were not metabolised, all live on in you that manifest in you - complex trauma. ACEs
22:14 It's never one thing even though the trigger will be obvious. Alex Howard's metaphor of an overloaded cargo ship which runs aground. Always multi-dimensional and uncertain.
Watch a video*
HEAL YOUR SPIRIT TO HEAL CFS/ME https://youtu.be/hXGaOjrV6PA
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Talking about pain from a mindbody perspective and how to heal.
00:00 Intro and why I'm talking about pain today
01:30 how to treat acute pain relating to tissue damage and shock (held in the body)
05:20 acute vs. chronic pain - pain that doesn't resolve itself after 3 months - neuropathic or 'brain pain' is especially difficult to resolve as the system gets 'stuck' in threat evaluation in limbic brain
08:20 with repeated trauma the system never re-sets and amygdala is sensitised. All change/uncertainty is seen this way as well as interoceptive signals resulting from fear.
10:15 Painkillers don't work here - need another solution. Brain re-training is needed in central brain to dampen emotional pain triggers
12:24 Changing the brain's processing - most effective treatment for pain and fatigue relies on the mindbody link not constant testing or fear signals of no solution
14:13 Different programs available to desensitise/de-amplify these signals by re-balancing left and right hemispheres too turns off fight and flight system.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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My commentary on the insight and understanding of healing ME/CFS as a spiritual disconnect that nevertheless has physical consequences. I draw on an interview between Jenny Lynn and Raelan Agle as well as my own experience as a therapist for over 15 years. See that here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFQKb0qS70
00:00 Intro
00:56 CFS/ME is a disconnect from the soul/spirit of the person suffering from it.
02:20 Your biography becomes your biology - why the body attacks itself - an alternative view
04:32 Feelings of unworthiness are embedded so that you have to strive/prove it somehow - and when you are not able to continue producing because of illness this creates a lot of fear that you will stay this way forever - spiritually adrift
06:45 Medicine is spiritually adrift too - a disconnect from you as a person, treats the symptoms only. Lost the art of medicine. a spiritual dislocation in the doctor/patient relationship
08:45 Most disease is a dys-regulation of the neuro -hormonal/immune system - a metaphorical reflection of the subconscious mind's dysfunctional beliefs
10:47 The mind and body are one and they read eachother. Integrative medicine brings this in and approaches this as a stress response gone awry. Helps to heal by motivating the body to heal from the bottom up rather than symptom checking.
13:00 Self-worth/esteem is built from the ground up - with a supportive therapist to engage your creative spirit rather than simply symptom suppressing.
14:40 Being not doing. Building creativity using metaphor/stories to get a dialogue between head and heart engages self-love and forgiveness of the self.
17:58 Finding a way out is about engaging new responses from the adult self - is NOT selfish
19:50 Healing in NOT about fixing the problem but about your own journey back to the authentic self
No 'one size fits all'.
21:20 We often have to hit rock bottom to truly heal - we seldom change unless we have to. Transform the relationship with yourself.
22:24 Healing is a process not a destination - need to assimilate (digest) it for yourself at a deep level. Takes courage and support.
Watch a video*
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
My reaction to the death of TV presenter and doctor Michael Mosley was one of deep sorrow and shock despite not knowing him personally. I was stunned by the unnecessary loss but also realising I was reacting to an event that happened to me 40 years ago!! Find out how here.
00:00 Nature of Trauma - shock trauma of loss e.g. the tragic death of Michael Mosely, one of the few TV doctors talking the language of integrative medicine - someone I greatly admired.
02:31 Very triggered by his death due to my own history with shock trauma - losing my Dad while I was away. Trigger = an internal traumatic re-enactment of previous experience.
05:31 You can't process trauma with willpower as it's generated in your survival brain. Causes many symptoms in body including pain, fatigue, gut issues and inflammation.
07:40 Trauma exists in most childhoods, as attachment trauma = emotional wounding, particularly for emotionally sensitive people (HSPs).
09:00 Usually shows up as long-term chronic conditions such as CFS/ME, Auto-immune Disease like Ehlers Danlos and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Will not respond to trying to 'fix it' (cognitive approach), particularly left hemisphere attention (grasping, linear, reductive)
11.40 Requires unconscious processing via body connection and unprocessed emotions stored there.. In the immediate aftermath need to take control (cognitively) but later on will need a different form of healing allowing you to heal at a deeper level.
15:50 Healing in safe physical connection with another allows you to feel the feelings without judgement or competition (no shame).
17:42 Social media is a shaming environment because it lacks heart to heart connection. AI particularly illustrates this as it shuts down our emotional centres promoting disconnection.
19:50 Recovery requires rewiring brain neurobiologically using somatic psychotherapy (talking therapy doesn't work so well with trauma as it is perceived in the body).
21:00 Finding a neuro-biologically safe state enables brain integration and mind and body connection. Get help, reach out to reverse chronic disease. Everything is possible...
Watch a video*
AI IS ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY - https://youtu.be/Ii4ylPl9vJ8
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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Recovery from chronic disease or conditions is not about fixing the problem. How the experience of Craig McKinley's sepsis and the work of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Nicola Singleton and John Campbell has informed my work.
Here's the interview with Nicola and Dr Chatterjee where she talks of what she discovered from working with him and how she got well. Sadly a couple of years after this was recorded Nicola suddenly died from an acute bout of sepsis. An absolute tragedy for her family and all the people she encouraged and supported to believe in recovery from chronic disease. We miss her energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-2B-cQE0Q
Here's the new research on mitochondrial function in relation to the immune system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgBbIxxjyls
00:00 Intro - Craig McKinley's sepsis experience made me wonder...
01:33 Nicola Singleton recovered from Fibromyalgia and then died from sepsis very suddenly. What causes this is unknown.
03:33 Why such conditions are biopsychosocial? Could it be mitochondrial deficits and/or a constellation of genetic SNiPs (genetic mutation) - the bio part of the biopsychosocial.
05:30 Psycho - the imprints that change your view of yourself, largely from childhood experience and beliefs.
06:40 Social - people suffering longterm chronic conditions tend to isolate and we therefore lose connection with others which perpetuates disease
08:06 It's not all genetic (it's epigenetic) and society disregards co-operation - my answer to the critics - largely left hemisphere thinking driven by fear and competition
10:02 Symptoms are body's way of communicating your distress, personalised approach to healing dis-ease means paying attention to your body in a new way and journey back to the self
Watch a video*
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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Why is this groundbreaking book so important? Here's my view...
00:00 Intro and Dr Mate's background
02:00 A leading light in emotional trauma awareness- and his personal experience of childhood trauma
03:44 Synopsis of chapters and the general direction of the book - disconnect from the self, attachment wounding, trauma is not always what we got but what we didn't get
05:32 High sensitivity (SPS) and parental deficits combine, creating dis-ease , aided by a distorted (toxic) cultural milieu
07:30 Brain creates patterns as adaptation but which is perceived as reality, which can create anxious mental states
08:50 The current medical model is based on individual disease not the wider picture of your environment and is inadequate to heal.
10:04 Pathways to Wholeness - the 5 Rs how to heal: Re-labelling (introducing uncertainty)
12:00 Reattribute (to childhood programming - giving you a new response- ability
14:49 Refocus - changing what you're doing/ take time out to do practical things.
16:28 Revalue - what has this belief done for me? Protective, not personal but human perspective
19:05 Recreate - rework the automatic conditioned responses to life situations via compassion
20:41 Realign - with a new life without that story?
21:43 A masterpiece - written in his voice (not AI or ghostwritten!). A passion project.
Watch a video*
WHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoU
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University.
for the original lecture go here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk
00:00 Intro to what's the matter with medicine in a left-brain world of disconnect - toxic world vs.
01:55 The importance of attention as a form of love
03:00 The doctor patient relationship is devalued now which degrades the skills of doctors as well as a distortion of the body as a faulty mechanism in a mechanistic view of the problem
04:40 Nothing in the animate and inanimate world is fixed or mechanistic - complex (living) systems are self-organising.
06:50 A danger to ourselves - medicine and molecular biology can read the notes but not the music!
08:20 Single celled organisms change their structure to solve problems almost instantaneously. Living systems are in dynamic equilibrium / in motion - even emotions - unlike machines
11:30 Nothing about a cell is linear. Multiple inputs create a dynamic equilibrium. Grows by differentiation. Engage in bootstrapping - change themselves within at same time as becoming.
13:30 DNA mapping - left brain approach saw mapping the genome as the answer to world disease but it ignored what it designated non-coding DNA as junk DNA.
15:13 Humanities are the essential context for science - especially clinical science. Reductionist approach doesn't work. Meaning and values in life. Each life a whirlpool in the stream that returns to source when we die.
18:00 when we lose the fear of death you see your life as a gift and appreciate the quality over quantity. E.g. money accumulation. Your body responds to how you live your life. Resonance and relationship to everything else.
19:58 Being human is about attention and intention. Avoiding commodification and mechanistic view of the human experience makes us sick
21:51 What makes us healthy? Shared community experience in which we can trust. Closeness to nature and connection to the spiritual (bigger than us).
23:50 Choose your future - avoid capitalist serfdom.
See also the Trauma of Capitalism here
https://youtu.be/SU1ZarHa7O0?si=NGszRx_8QuUiP7Mn
Watch another video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Lessons from the life and untimely death of Amy Winehouse after watching the movie Back to Black and also reading The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. How nervous system dysregulation plays out in the life and how it inevitably takes its toll as we seek to calm our nervous system in any way we can.
Luckily with support and proper tools it IS possible to quell the anxiety that leads to all kinds of addictions. Learn how you can do this to re-connect to safety inside.
00:00 Intro - movie drama Back to Black about the life of Amy Winehouse and an interview with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Usually regarded as the 'bad boy' in the story, was also very young and dys-regulated (no family support)
02:40 The film shows a rather cosy view of her family but we know that she lacked support from her family also - her mother (ill), her father (somewhat childlike in many ways) and her Nan (the best emotional support she had but who sadly died at the height of Amy's fame). No wonder she was attracted to Blake and alcohol (and later hard drugs)
05:35 A more nuanced view is that she was lead to these adaptations /strategies to regulate the dys-regulated nervous system - the early life experience is the most important developer of our stress response
07:00 According to Gabor Mate in The Myth of Normal parents are both important but under-supported themselves, so it's no wonder that things go wrong - the neurological payoff of poor attachment is huge in the lifespan
09:00 Societal pressures are also huge - social media and access to information that the nervous system cannot always make meaning of without overwhelm. Triggers in adulthood will easily then create addictions.
10:30 Tools that we can use - e.g. touch based havening is bottom up from the body to the brain (somatically) via feelings rather than thoughts.
12:00 demo of havening showing the importance of interpersonal support. Connecting with a safe nervous system. Other tools - cranio-sacral therapy, breathwork and humming/chanting (voo sound) helps to stimulate the vagus nerve (calming)
Watch a video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
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MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Men and women - the difference in how stress operates and how it manifests. And why men are less likely to admit they need help
See this article for more details on gender differences in neurobiology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425245
00:00 The stress response in men and women are different - physiological differences in brain organisation. Fight and flight vs. Tend and befriend.
02:31 Emotions are part of that system that communicates safety biologically. When symptoms arise, women are much more likely to notice and respond to them.
03:30 Men much more likely to come when things get so bad that they can't fix it themselves. Shame in needing others (being emotionally vulnerable) is cultural.
04:45 Childhood experience is hugely landscaping of men's and women's brains. High sensitivity is just as common in boys as girls (orchid children). Emotional suppression more common in men.
06:08 Trauma embeds itself in body memory (instances of not having emotional needs met). Anxiety is present in both men and women but presents differently - can be more melancholic, shame filled.
07:57 The body presents its bill through symptoms, and it needs inter-relational safety to connect with the sensations that mask the underlying emotions wanting to break through.
09:20 Children have to attach to survive. Strategies develop as a means to manage the situation. But they become dysfunctional later in life particularly in relationships - which causes more shame.
11:22 The dysfunctional behaviour is not the authentic person but the coping mechanism. Learning to express yourself emotionally is vital to full health.
12:50 How to contact me - experience somatic psychotherapy which tracks sensations in the body which are proxies for the emotions that could not be felt.
Watch a video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
BOOK A SESSION (individual or group - including the Community sessions)
https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/book
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MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
Find out how to transform past experiences so that you can move forward in life without sabotaging yourself.
An update on my microdosing months 3 after 1 month off
Also how I've noticed EMDR works similarly to psychedelics.
For the start of my microdosing journey go here https://youtu.be/841soWqB8Xs
Find the talk with Jude Currivan and Pam Gregory here
https://www.youtube.com/live/dkNo9miHjH8?si=1zdTn8ClhxrFvPqs
00:00 Microdosing psilocybin, final month. Being an HSP as a neurodivergence means I have to start slowly
03:30 Setting an intention - my new book still on the go. Looks at EMDR as a means of changing mental states to access memory to clear events from the past
06:50 Can communicate with the body by asking questions to release stuck patterns
10:36 Emotional Alchemy - transforming emotions so that they become your friends rather than your enemies
12:30 My first book The Scar that Won't Heal - got the title first was about the MindBody connection
13:30 Complex systems are self-organising but they need accurate information
14:21 Cosmology/astrophysicist meets astrology in the conversation with Jude Currivan and Pam Gregory - example of older women's voices of hope.
17:30 Set your intention via getting into the feeling of it. Harmony and Purpose.
Please note the review of Harmony book is in fact in 2 weeks not the following week as I stated in the video
Watch a video
MIDLIFE MICRODOSING JOURNEY starts https://studio.youtube.com/video/841soWqB8Xs/edit
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
ORDER A BOOK: See my books here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
See my books on amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
Join in my Emotional AUDIT (Evergreen) Trauma Healing programme OR
Take part in the group monthly Community Sessions where we discuss a range of topics.
https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/booking-calendar/online-community-membership
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See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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My commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University.
for the original lecture go here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk
00:00 Iain is a unique voice in that he marries the humanities (philosophy) and science (medicine) which gives him a broad view of the world.
02:10 Writing my current book Mind Medicine /Emotional Alchemy (provisional title) looking at changing consciousness and therefore health through implicit memory pattern change
04:10 Parts therapy/ IFS (internal family systems) therapy- disembodied parts argue with eachother.
May talk to the left brain dominant!! Needs a therapist to pull back a more holistic view
06:05 A Medicine more Fit for Humanity - my commentary. Very left brain dominant procedural occupation focused on technology and humans as machines
08:00 Lose contextual information and meaning when we look at the world this way, lacks feeling and relational dynamic between us and the world we perceive
09:20 Left hemisphere sees the world in parts, (ignores the right hemisphere), deluded in its representation, competition, grabbing, using things - society follows this sadly (narcissism?)
13:41 The 2 sides are complementary, conserved in all mammals, separated by Corpus Callosum
15:06 The way we pay attention changes what we find in the world and who we are! Disembodied, disconnected may be as a result of the deficit of the right brain.
16:20 Medicine is an example of 'left brain' approach that seeks to understand things by studying constituent parts. Right brain understands there is uncertainty in understanding anything this way and we have to have a more wholistic view - opening up to possibility!
17:25 Transforming people into the realm of possibility - where diagnosis goes wrong - Life Beneath the Labels. Left brain that seeks control the uncontrollable takes us down into disconnect. and fear
19:26 Getting into implicit, creative view of the world. (work of Martha Beck) getting out of anxiety by getting into the body and looking at your whole world view not as malfunctioning machine.
20:50 Any dis-ease is biopsychosocial - reflecting the whole of you. Needs to be treated as such
21:26 Left hemisphere creates a map of the world which is inaccurate, but very compelling. Doctors train in this very view, which limits their ability to help suffering people (a problem of reductionist, technological medical training).
23:50 This hurts not only patients but also medical professionals - no connection leads to mental health issues for all
24:40 Complex systems (which we are) need complex nuanced solutions to learn about themselves in the depth of their being.
Watch another video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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In this commentary on the words of Esther Perel and researcher Brene Brown I delve into how AI is creating a mental health crisis. Not Artificial intelligence but Artificial Intimacy!! Intimacy and Connection are crucial to healthy human expression but our relationships are being co-opted and distorted by social media.
Find out how to build connection and heal by joining my Weds Community Sessions (first Weds of the month usually). Go here to find out more. https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/service-page/online-community-membership.
Join here https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/book
For the original discussion you will have to wait as the original has been deleted sadly...
you can find Esther talking about AI here https://youtu.be/vSF-Al45hQU?si=uQJVGaF3mVSHJprw
for my books see below
00:00 Intro - why I chose this conversation to comment on - older women are so under-represented
online
03:00 The rise of loneliness in an age of hyper-connectivity
06:00 Ambiguous loss/ counterfeit connection is being in a process of grieving loss whilst simultaneously being with someone
08:25 Traumatisation/ dissociation is the same feeling
09:19 Denies the complexity and messiness of real relationships
10:40 Polarisation and division is driven by this disconnect, lack of friction to create something new. The willingness to engage in 'fierce intimacy' even if you disagree
12:19 Modern loneliness masks as hyper-connectivity - likes and dislikes become the foundation my self-esteem. Feeling like you don't belong anywhere
14:00 Missed bids for connection and compromise are absent in online discussions, commodification, dissociation
16:20 Happenstance, serendipity of spontaneous conversations are absent
17:45 Mental Health crisis - or a reasonable reaction to a dysfunctional society? - see The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Mate. Craving connection our brain will flit around - ADHD!
20:00 The quality of listening shapes what you will share. A mutual exploration.
21:00 Vulnerability is something I work with as a positive attribute. Community group every month a place where we can meet in our own uncertainty and still be loved and heard.
Watch a video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
ORDER A BOOK: See my books here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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I've become aware that vulnerability is key to true creativity - you cannot create something new without risk. Find out how I've discovered this in my own life and work - with the help of some others who've explored this - Brene Brown, Gabor Mate and King Charles!!
00:00 Intro to Vulnerability is the key to Creativity - work of Brene Brown
01:00 My first proper published book (by Mercury publishing) arrives from the US - makes me potentially more vulnerable because I will be promoted!
02:52 Harmony by HRH Prince of Wales (Charles - now the King) Book Review - the fact that it was written in collaboration - was it ghost-written?
04:45 Does co-publishing with others make you less vulnerable in your creativity - Gabor Mate talks about this in his new book The Myth of Normal co-written with his son as a joint enterprise
06:42 Vulnerability exposes feelings of unworthiness which show up in surprising ways - as unconscious memories of trauma
08:42 Childhood trauma gets stuck as patterns of belief which may contradict as messages of who you are
10:18 Marianne's message of our vulnerability - 'our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure' builds an adaptation to over-achieve
12:16 Contentment/peace can still be elusive if we haven't changed the essential pattern of feeling unworthy of success creating unconscious sabotage as recurring patterns
13:46 All of us are vulnerable to these scripts from the past. Need to engage with them and transcend them by being witnessed. Exploring a new response by being challenged.
Watch a video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
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See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) remains one of the most influential family therapists there have ever been but she is virtually unknown now outside of psychology. She taught the importance of feelings over thoughts and blew the current understanding and practice out the water with her emphasis on safe emotional connection and the reasons people repeated certain scripted behaviors. Her work was the basis for Richard Bandler's development of NLP but she is seldom acknowledged or celebrated.
When I was a fledgling therapist I was asked to model myself on someone who worked the way I wanted to and I found her by accident and noticed something very important. She touched people! Both figuratively and physically she stressed the importance of safe emotional connection through touch, sight and sound. She believed everything was vibration and that to be human was a magical thing of divine expression.
Find out how her work has influenced mine and what I wished I'd known about self-esteem and becoming fully human.
Her expressed wish was that everyone could look the mirror and say "the world is a better place because I'm in it".
Find your work here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITT44xDLXI
00:00 Intro to Virginia Satir as a model for the work I now do
03:00 The importance of emotions in working with people in therapy - sight, sound and touch (sensory inputs through the body) enables people to feel safe and is the basis of behaviour
06:11 A faulty model of the world that we learned as children becomes the basis for how we related now - a faulty projection of reality. Power vs. intimacy.
10:05 The body expresses the dysfunction because the mind cannot (it's repressed). Rage then ensues which is driven into symptoms.
11:48 Power dynamics between people. Being present vs. being defended. Freedom to disagree via safe connection vs. reactivity.
13:07 The need to be right will be defended even if it is dysfunctional (Peter Crone) to avoid feeling uncertainty.To be truly intimate have to be willing to acknowledge difference.
15:53 Each human being is the unique manifestation of a divine force. We need time to explore ourselves to be in true relationship with others. We ask to be heard by someone.
17:30 We are vibration - so how we use our bodies matters. Being in true connection whilst disagreeing gives us energy. In battle with our experience.
19:34 The importance of meaning and interpretation in communication. Having an accurate picture in order to respond appropriately
21:56 How the vulnerability of not knowing is part of the solution not the problem. Our difference needs acknowledging and a willingness to not know.
23:32 Every situation in our life in which we struggle shows us where are not free or out of alignment with our true selves.
24: 30 How I work with the body to build self-esteem
Find Peter Crone's conversation with Rangan Chatterjee here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsUif-CzOg
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
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In this audio I describe this ground-breaking information on how to heal with psychedelics from the book How to Change your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan.
The article I mention By Robin Carhart-Harris on The Entropic Brain on psychedelics is here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020/full
00:00 Intro to the book and my work
02:40 outline of the book: history, natural history and personal experience of the author Michael Pollan, origins of psychedelic research LSD/mescaline - began in the 1940s/1950s with the 1960s counterculture and anti-war movement
04:59 The War on Drugs began and class A restrictions still in place 50 years later.
06:21 His own experiences with LSD, psilocybin and DMT
07:00 The neuroscience - switching off the Default Mode Network in the brain creates unusual new connections. Disconnection dissolves - we become one with all that is and love as the ultimate meaning
10:16 Drug assisted psychotherapy - the research from the US and the UK - particularly at Imperial College, London under David Knutt - one of the major research groups in the world. The new renaissance.
14:20 Predictive coding is how the brain avoids uncertainty - entropy is controlled therefore by making things predictable and limited. New states require rewiring of regular reality to include magical thinking much like young children have with neuroplasticity
17:00 New expansive awareness has HUGE potential for healing disease states like depression, anxiety and addiction, overcoming the fear of death in terminal cancer patients but also promoting creativity and productivity in healthy people (when microdosed)
19:24 The potential to help trauma/PTSD when traumatic memories are over-written by psychedelics and other forms of altered state promotion like EMDR. All require a safe therapeutic container.
Look out for my new book tentatively titled Mind Magic - summer 2024
Watch a video
HOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgY
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Work with me:
ORDER A BOOK: See my books here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.therapies/
MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Anxiety is not a disease in the sense that doctors describe. It is a message from the body that something in your environment feels unsafe.
For original article I'm commenting on go here. https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/six-steps-to-managing-anxiety/
00:00 Intro - everyday trauma impacts the mind to create a sense of unsafety which can be easily triggered in current life causing anxiety as a symptom
02:50 Anxiety has a purpose - to keep us safe the amygdala will fire a warning signal to DO something to change our situation. Anxiety is normal - to draw your attention to something emotional that hasn't been resolved activating your sympathetic fight and flight system.
05:00 A backbrain phenomenon from past trauma in your history that was unable to be processed.
07:10 Lack of belonging, status, and safety can create physical symptoms of collapse including insomnia. Getting curious as to how to make your environment safer and learn how to soothe yourself.'
10:00 Relational safety. Stressful, competitive, insecure environments.
12:12 Managing anxiety with havening, breathwork, play and connection to overcome nervous dysregulation. How to collaborate with you body via sleep, diet and movement, especially walks in nature and allowing.
14:40 Cognitive reframing - not being anxious about being anxious. Making friends with your anxiety.
Not making it your identity. You are doing anxiety, showing this behaviour, especially when highly sensitive. It's not who you are.
16:31 You are not ill, you lack the skills you need. I teach this at my monthly Community group calls (see my website below to book)
17:50 Your focus matters - not broken but wounded. Get help and support (not try to fix it) but to be with you while you learn what your childhood adverse experiences have created.
20:00 Increasing resilience by dealing with the past needs another to help you. And they have to be safe to you bodily. That's why I do Discovery calls prior to re-regulation work.
Watch a video
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EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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A new 'Magic Bullet' that few people know about (including your doctor!) ... The importance of Methylene Blue and how it might transform human health particularly in areas of low oxygen delivery (fatigue states, depression and neurological damage).
Check out the original recording with Dr Gonalez-Lima on https://deeprootsathome.com/methylene-blue-memory-mood-parkinsons-adhd/ (see the original on rumble linked from there).
See more info on dosing on that website
See his latest summary paper on MB + photobiomodulation with neuro-inflammation here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36203812/
He can also be found on various podcasts here https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-107/
00:00 Oldest known drug used for emergency room cyanide poisoning
02:20 Electron Transport Chain in Mitochondria - how it produces cellular energy - a series of reduction/oxidation (redox) reactions where electrons are released - reduction is loss of hydrogen ions (protons) and gain of electrons
05:20 What gets in the way? Cyanide poisoning and some virus infections like HIV or covid, causing low oxygen delivery and assimilation
07:50 Long history of use as an anti-viral against Ebola/HIV and anti malarial.
08:25 MB structure - electrons held in a ring structure as a chromophore (like coloured foods).
10:20 Absorbs in IR range - molecule structure is auto-oxidant as well as electron cycling
12:00 Hormesis and biphasic response operates in CFS/ME - at low doses it is advantageous at higher doses can be damaging
14:00 Neurological benefits in healthy people at lower doses - slow aging, dementia, Parkinson's, as well as a powerful antidepressant , etc
15:14 MB is off patent so not supported by Big pharma unlike anti-depressant drugs which are less and less effective - 'treatment resistant depression'
17:30 High permeability as it passes the blood brain barrier and can optimise cellular respiration with well people. So enhances metabolic production enabling better healing, memory, aging i,e is a nootropic as well as a drug for acute medicine.
21:00 Also upregulates (increases) gene expression of protein (enzyme) production longer term thus increasing capacity for oxygen metabolism
22:00 CFS/ME is a form of metabolic 'poisoning' driven by emotional stress and toxicity
23:20 Cure for bladder infections - becomes pro-oxidant in oxidative stress especially important with the elderly
26:40 Brain function and neurological issues must be coupled to haemodynamic response between oxygen and nitrous oxide in Complex 4 (cytochrome oxidase) facilitated by MB
29:00 Enhancing mental function including extinguishing trauma memories and MB in memory reconsolidation
30:20 Topical application using photobiomodulation of skin tumours with MB and IR light
32:30 Disclaimer. Always contact your medical provider as there are some contraindications. However be aware most doctors are unaware of MB except in emergency situations. Please refer to Dr Gonzalez-Lima's papers to educate your doctor in low grad applications.
33:50 Sources - please do your own research to find
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Healing needs the body AND the mind to be engaged with a multifactorial approach. Modern medicine ignores this and concentrates on a single solution which often creates unwanted side effects.
Using a biospsychosocial approach makes much more sense.
Find out how to take back control of your health.
Includes updates on Methylene Blue and Hormone Harmony.
See the work of Dr Ellen Langer on MindBody Unity
00:00 Intro and update on MB practice - how to avoid dying your tongue blue - add to Vitamin C or drink with a straw. Urine will inevitably go darker once you reach tolerance.
03:30 Dosage - 0.5mg/kg. how highly sensitive people need to go gently
04:40 How it works and what it does. Prevent dementia by using as a preventative in middle years.
06:07 Hormone Harmony - good results.
06:55 Taking back control. Changing the trajectory of your health. The biopsychosocial journey.
08:28 Events of your life (past and present) contribute to MindBody Unity
10:36 how this impacts our experience of health or disease - a multifactorial model vs the biological pharmaceutical model
12:52 Profits of this approach are draining our health system.
12:00 Getting into a Healing State of Mind
Watch a video
QUANTUM HARMONIC RESONANCE IN THE BODY https://youtu.be/DMKLkIw6PXI
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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My journey with microdosing and how therapeutic doses help heal our relationship with ourselves and Nature. Please note to date drug laws prevent me talking about sourcing.
See Paul's 2023 update on his 2009 talk here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qry8K7KPHIQ
If you'd like to start with the original go here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
0:00 Intro and Plant medicine
02:00 Paul Stamets' original talk and its implications
02:39 Only 30% of people respond to antidepressants.... so this is another alternative
03:39 Toxic culture with lack of meaning - depression a natural result
04:40 My reasoning as to why I'm investigating this
05:50 The Stamets Protocol for microdosing - 1/10th dose with Lion's mane and niacin 4/3 days
07:30 Neurogenesis (psylocibin), potentiation (niacin/B3) and myelin sheath repair boosts transmission (lion's mane mushroom)
11:11 Minor effects in first few days- immunological in microbiome
12:55 Supplemental doses allow therapeutic option at home
14:06 Masculine vs. feminine energy modes. Could mushrooms save the planet?
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Update on week 2 in the microdosing experiment with psilocybin PLUS a discussion of 'The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis' with Iain McGilchrist, Daniel Schmachtenberger and John Vervaeke.
In this video I discuss my changing experiential awareness when on microdoses of psyilocybin and how it enhances productivity.
As part of my ongoing journey I am finding myself drawn to discussions of a new connection to the world we inhabit. The above discussion particularly caught my attention (beware it's over 3 hours long). https://youtu.be/-6V0qmDZ2gg?si=_LRFkZ_F8PJJZYLo
00:00 Intro to the protocol and journey
01:41 Experience of soullessness in the built environment
02:35 Going into colour as part of me and startling dreams of 'unacceptable' anger
05:10 My research examining the psychological crisis we're in - my summary of three wise men discussing the state of our world (nothing to do with Christmas!).
07:00 Iain's view of the left brain dominant culture we're in - left and right hemispheres view the world in very different ways drives a worldview that leads us to create mass extinction
10:00 What we focus our attention on determines what we see. If that is isolation and disconnection this distortion of reality creates realworld impacts like physical illness
11:00 My sudden awareness - a crisis of meaning in our lives. Mine was a lack of belonging when I lost my home and my relationship.
12:31 Being unwelcome /isolated drives physical illness - 80% of people in the UK feel lonely
14:00 A wider meaning lost in a secular society - lack of spiritual connection/bigger purpose
15:22 Spiritual connection drives a sense of mattering to other people within a community
16:18 Meaning and purpose are not the same - transcending individual self
17:28 Disconnect drives anxiety and depression limits and distorts reality
18:26 The body and feeling states is missing in this discussion entirely
20:05 Implicit memory stored in body often triggers anxiety - requires somatic connection therapies
21:01 Psychedelics allow a bigger picture awareness - especially in high doses where set and setting is SO important
22:57 Brian Wilson's LSD experience - enhanced creativity but then blew his mind in a negative way
24:00 Productivity as a flow/coherent state not an end in itself - my experience of book writing/researching
25:50 Changing lives one person at a time, via the body and with a more feminine energy
27:00 My middle-aged perspective
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In this update into week 4 of my journey I notice not only the sensory changes but also perceptive ones. Feeling part of something bigger....
find out how it's affected me and what I'm learning as part of this journey.
Week 4 of psilocybin microdosing.
00:00 Intro to microdosing
01:00 Awareness of our imminent planetary extinction but with hope for the future
02:33 Reducing the need to consume/numb/disconnect - changes your worldview
03:30 Sensory and nature connectedness - hearing birdsong in a totally new way
05:00 Paul Stamets - an enlightened scientist and human being who teaches fungally based defence of the earth and nature
08:00 The microbiome and fungal rebalancing of gut flora
09:30 Fungi more closely related to animals - use radiation to power themselves
10:30 Focus and concentration effects
11:00 Setting an intention - accessing healing of past trauma
12:00 Useful for treatment resistant depression - huge potential
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Here i am reviewing and interpreting the book The Road to Character by David Brooks.
How we find meaning and authentic expression in life is not through avoiding suffering but how we deal with our subsequent demise. Whether through illness or other struggles we all need eachother to help pick ourselves up and make the world a better place.
00:00 Intro to the book The Road to Character (2015) - how I came across David
01:23 What is character? Not your cv description! but an authentic journey
03:00 Stumbling is part of life... "'sin' and humiliation are woven through life"
04:42 How you make meaning - shame /humiliation/ vindication vs responsibility and humility
06:10 How reaching out to others enables us to recover - engendering hope
07:41 The greater good rather than the suffering of the individual - redemption follows a willingness to reach out
09:05 From the valley to the vision is a journey to attachment and community - finding your tribe
10:30 Reverence gratitude and wonder as antidotes to depression
12:10 Acceptance - is changing the beliefs around your deservingness of love (worthiness)
13:00 Joy is for everyone not because you are perfect but from being authentic - a gift when you least expect it
14:00 Reach out for help if you need it!
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In this update into week 6 of my psilocybin microdosing journey I notice how I am revisiting lessons from the past, investigating A Course in Miracles (doing the workbook) and changing my practice to be more empathic.
As part of my learning I am researching mushrooms and their uses. I refer you to the excellent film on the subject Fantastic Fungi.
Find out how it's affected me and what I'm learning as part of this journey.
https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/Fantastic%20Fungi/
00:00 Intro to week 6 of the Stamets Protocol
01:00 Detoxing and symptoms - 24 hours only
02:27 sensory enhancement and sense of wonder and connection with nature and other people
03:40 A Course in Miracles exercises - reality is filtered through the lens of perception
05:00 Mycelial networks work much like the neurological process in our brains
06:30 Fantastic Fungi movie about the work of Paul Stamets and other researchers
07:30 Lichens as a symbiotic organism of alga and fungus - we are also a community or organisms
09:50 Community call on mushrooms and healing
10:40 Mode of action in the human brain of high dose psilocybin - fractal images appear
13:00 Not a miracle worker - challenges still happen but you have an altered response
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I describe the ongoing surprising revelations in this week 8 video from a holistic therapeutic perspective. Coming to a break point it's time to assimilate the learning. Some surprising conclusions in this healing journey of a middle-aged psychonaut..
Stamets stack protocol with niacin (vitamin B3) and Lion's Mane
Named after Paul Stamets. See this wonderful film Fantastic Fungi about his work here.
https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/Fantastic%20Fungi/
Simon Reeve Wilderness https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001tkg2/wilderness-with-simon-reeve
00:00 Intro to Stamet's stack protocol
02:30 Why I'm doing it - synergy between us and fungi to promote neurogenesis - new brain wiring
04:00 Healing anxiety - the anxiety loop is difficult to break in conventional ways
05:00 Ancient cultures live with the seasons - even 100 years ago we were much more connected to the land and seasons
07:00 Disconnection is rife - mushrooms reconnect you to nature and your place in the world
08:10 Dreams of past loves/connections helps to reclaim the past/heal pain to find peace and meaning
10:41 Humanity is wounded - healing the disconnect and the resurgence of connectedness
11:40 Regulation not isolation in schools - teaching children love and consequences not punishment helps heal anxiety
13:31 Hormone Harmony - hormones are you interface between you and your environment
14:32 Adaptogenic herbs and plants adapt to your situation
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Here I look at Birth Trauma and how it affects everyone (not just women who give birth!). Birth is the single most important event in everyone's life and how it happens determines the quality of our lives - especially in the area of health and wellbeing. It shapes the understanding of ourselves and our relationship with others. If it is traumatic in any way, that plays itself out as internalised shame and this will make us angry, disconnected with a constant feeling of 'not enough'
Explore these and other themes related to emotinoal health further in my community programme which runs monthly. the next one is 10/1/24 at 4pm UK time. Book here https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/booking-calendar/online-community-membership
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How empaths (highly sensitive people) become people pleasers who fail to get their emotional needs met. The roots lie in childhood attachment.
How you can change this pattern.
00:00 Intro and why most of my clients are empaths/ HSPs
01:46 Trauma is difficult to process in childhood - and needs a grounded parent to allow emotions
02:50 Beliefs drive 2 strategies: narcissism or empath/co-dependent
04:16 Empaths look for cues of safety in your environment/others - drives anxiety and people-pleasing and never saying no
06:07 This pattern is extremely stressful and exhausting - need to learn to be individuated and in your body - being ok with your own vulnerability not running away from your feelings.
07:50 The journey to self-hood begins with the body and and havening
09:20 Then breaking free from parental/ relational expectation introduces discernment and teaches worthiness
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Bringing back the soul into medicine - how modern medicine has lost its soul and creates all sorts of negative results which are bankrupting the healthcare profession both monetarily and in terms of doctor's purpose and meaning.
But plant medicine offers a way to bring that back and may yet overturn the current biomedical machine to create true healing.
00:00 Intro to the Loss of Soul in Medicine - loss of relationship
01:18 Medicine is a calling but in the training you become overly specialised in the acute medical model. Chronic conditions now account for over 60% of all consultations which rely on blood tests and scanning
03:30 The fear cycle of waiting and uncertainty drives inflammation in your body and prevents healing.The negative psychology of consultation - makes it worse
05:30 A non systems approach fails a large number of people - the autonomic nervous system link all parts of the body
06:51 Past experience and the underlying hidden stress in the body which is the root cause along with underlying nutritional deficiencies
09:00 Powerlessness and hopelessness versus agency and hope. The Biopsychosocial approach considers your whole environment internal and external (including toxicity)
13:00 The future of medicine is possibly psychedelic medicine. This enables people to overcome their past programming and restores health in a therapeutic setting. plant medicine reduces the the default mode network and fear in your amygdala
15:00 Dysfunctional patterns developed in survival mode become limiting and cause dis-ease
The new book Plant Medicine will be out sometime in 2024. I am currently writing a book proposal for my publishers Mercury Publishing. My latest book Microbiome Modification - The Human Superorganism and the Creation of Health - out December 2023 See https://merclearning.com.
The EWG top 10 household products toxic list can be found here.
https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/
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In this first part of my Book Review I look at 'The Genie in your Genes' by Dawson Church, PhD. I look at how ground-breaking this book was (2007, rev 2009) and how it was so far ahead of its time in teaching us about how your environment (the thoughts you think, the emotions you feel - or don't allow yourself to feel) all get buried in your body changing your DNA expression and therefore your health.
Buried painful feelings promote cell breakdown whereas positive beliefs and feelings promote cell repair and therefore wellness.
If you prefer to watch a video please find that here
https://youtu.be/ANIrWLjdLTM
See also my keynote presentation for the Chrysalis Effect Conference - From the Biological to the Spiritual - a Journey of Recovery is available on Youtube here
https://youtu.be/cCF7RPfXvd8
0:00 Intro - My talk for the Chrysalis Effect prompted me to review my influences
03:10 Changing the pattern of energy in the body
05:14 The Gene Conundrum and the Genome Project shock!
07:40 Feelings and beliefs are drivers of gene expression
08:53 Trauma embeds in the body creating a vibration of negative experience and symptoms
09:49 Fascinating Fascia - a liquid semi-conduction crystal link to your microtubules (scaffolding)
11:14 Quantum biology and the piezoelectric body interacts with electromagnetic fields in the body
13:20 HRV and training your heartfield, consciousness and changing the nature of your reality
15:48 Feeling unified - religion and science to provide meaningful belonging
16:50 A different consciousness of hope and collaboration
17:20 Power of intention and vulnerability
Watch other videos
TRAUMA AND THE SYMPTOM IMPERATIVE https://youtu.be/OGQKIFsTeuE
SHAME AND ITS ORIGINS https://youtu.be/4j9AJq5_z7I
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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I talk about how Empaths at the extreme end of high sensitivity may have the gift of clairvoyance. Whether you think it's a scam or not, there are examples of people who do this for a living and also help the police (unofficially) to solve murders. I use the example of famous medium Nicky Alen whose family have had extraordinary abilities. How does that happen? Is it the Pineal gland?
Catch the interview with Nicky Alan here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-kAMsOlmFU
0:45 Different types of empath
01:12 Medium Nicky Alen born with clairvoyance as an innate trait
04:00 police have been using these people for years
06:22 My experience of a visitation - mysteries that can't be explained
08:00 Changes in the brain - pineal gland - a spiral structure that could be origin of the third eye?
Watch a video
FROM THE BIOLOGICAL TO THE SPIRITUAL https://youtu.be/cCF7RPfXvd8
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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In this follow up to my review of the classic book The Genie in your Genes by Dawson Church, I describe the innovations in energetic medicine interventions. the last 6 chapters of the book cover comprehensively a new approach to healing outside the conventional medical paradigm and propose new solutions which are less expensive and more fundamental. using the new science of epigenetics (which is based on quantum biology no less), we see that healing is possible for everyone.
Find me on amazon as I've written extensively on these subjects. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patricia-Worby/e/B015TM124G
00:00 Genes are not fixed - the environment changes how they are expressed (the output).
02:00 Biophotons and other forms of energy underlie the body
03:50 The heart - so much more than a pump. Is a coordinating organ for that entrains the brain via Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
05:29 DNA as an information molecule to transmute energy from one state to another
06:46 Different conformations changes the output - basis of the placebo effect
08:00 Quantum biology operates in the body - entanglement could be the basis of remote healing and like instantaneous connection
10:23 Mirror neurons/brainwave and heart entrainment could be via quantum effects - even time-bending! - and non-local perception (ESP).
13:10 Miracles do happen - spontaneous healing and bolstering emotions of kindness boosts s healing potential
15:00 Energy psychology techniques like EFT/Tapping and EMDR changes how you feel - changes your vibration and immune functioning
16:52 Principles of energy medicine: intention, process not an event, heart centredness, art of being not doing, body as a system, prevention rather than cure, magnify self healing powers, energy medicine as first intervention - less is more, revisioning death - letting go of the fear of death, global context - ecologically sustainable medicine needs a different model. Biopsychosocial approach is the future.
Watch another video
GENIE IN YOUR GENES PART I
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEU
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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In this podcast I talk about attachment wounding (failure of bonding with caregivers) and why and how it shortens your life, as we saw last week with singer Sinead O'Connor dying in her late 50s. This may happen for many different reasons: birth trauma, having a mum who is herself traumatised or with post-natal depression or being separated shortly after birth for instance.
In order to deal with this a child has to develop a strategy to get their emotional needs met if this is possible. This sets up 4 different attachment styles which carry through into your adult relationships as a pattern:
1/secure - you are able to regulate your emotions and think rationally at the same time. you are confident of getting your needs met.
2/insecure/avoidant/dismissive - can't access feelings - often avoidant of relationships
3/ insecure/ambivalent/anxious/ preoccupied - feel but can't think, too much feelings become clingy and needy, intense in relationships, liable to co-dependency, enmeshed.
4/ insecure - no strategy works, so become very unregulated neurologically. Have mental health issues and possibly addictions as have a lot of shame. Safety is absent.
0:00 Intro - what creates longevity - or not!
01:00 ACEs - adverse childhood events can be small t trauma is often attachment trauma
02:00 Attachment (bonding patterns) predicts life trajectory and physical health
04:00 Attachment styles reflect the strategy you adopted to get your emotional needs met
07:00 Avoidant strategy can be dismissive in adulthood or narcissistic
07:40 Ambivalent anxious types - get enmeshed, preoccupied, needy, co-dependent
08:32 Therapy has to work differently with both types
09:50 Disordered attachment creates serious mental health issues
11:30 Nervous system regulation can be learned in therapy- to create islands of safety
13:00 How shame undermines you and creates self-harm and self-criticism
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In this podcast I talk about the recent publication of my book The Highly Sensitive Handbook - How Sensory Processing Sensitivity & Childhood Trauma Hijacks Your Health, I go through the information in the book and why it's a must buy for ANYONE who thinks they may be highly sensitive or lives with one!
This is NOT another highly sensitive person book. I bring my decade of experience as a therapist and a lifetime of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP - to show how adverse childhood experience and sensitivity combine to create a life that undermines you. I also give you tips and tools to stop that happening and real-life examples of people who have turned that around.
I show you all the chapters and what's included.
To buy the book please go here.
https://mybook.to/HShandbook
My other book The Scar that Won't Heal available here.
https://mybook.to/ljxjh
00:00 Intro
01:00 What is highly sensitive person - HSP?
04:00 Chapter 1 - Introduction to High Sensitivity as a Trait
06:10 Chapter 2 - Highly Sensitive Childhood
08:07 Chapter 3 - Biology of Nervous System
10:00 Chapter 4 - Adverse Childhood Experience and lifelong trauma response
11:13 Chapter 5 - Toxic Stress & Shame and Vulnerability
11:40 Chapter 6 - Challenges and Advantages of High Sensitivity, especially for Empaths
14:00 Chapter 7 - How to Thrive
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In this podcast - one of the most important I've ever recorded - I discuss the difference in the conventional medical approach and the more complementary/holistic view to health and healing
00:00 - Intro to the New Biology in healthcare
01:00 - body as a machine v.s a holistic systems view of mindbody on a spectrum of health
03:00 - disease is random genetics or infections vs. dis-ease manifestation of epigenetic interpretation of environment which changes susceptibility
05:25 - give over power to experts to fix the machine vs. taking back power and change your beliefs, change your biology
08:05 - living in fear of illness vs. taking response-ability for our health via physical and emotional healing
12:30 - new medicine opposed by vested interests of Big Pharma and their institutional partners
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In this podcast I cover the latest research that links imbalance in the ventral vagus nerve (innervation of the head and neck) with chronic inflammation throughout the body. We know that most disease has inflammation at its core - anxiety, depression, arthritis, heart disease, and even auto-immunity are all linked to the imbalance of this important nerve of the autonomic (vegetative) nervous system.
Find out what you can do to rebalance your vagus and why this may be a vital non-drug tool in future medical treatment.
Check out the original article I mention here https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/23/the-key-to-depression-obesity-alcoholism-and-more-why-the-vagus-nerve-is-so-exciting-to-scientists
Check out the Singing athlete on youTube for more info on manual vagal toning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xwxfGTOhc
For more info on devices check out this article https://healthnews.com/longevity/biohacking/best-vagus-nerve-stimulation-device/
Note it doesn't mention the DENAS because this isn't just a vagal stimulator but an all round medical device. See https://denas-neurodens.com/
0:00 Intro and definitions
02:00 Vagal tone is usually low due to stressful lives
03:05 New research - mind body connection is at last proven
04:00 Non-drug treatment for epilepsy works for depression too!
05:50 Systemic effects because the vagus goes everywhere
07:00 Dorsal vagus goes to internal organs changing neurotransmitter balance
08:00 Vagal stimulation via electrical devices
09:00 Nerve dysfunction may relate to past experience
10:37 Manual techniques to rebalance - tapping, ear wiggling, humming, etc
12:40 Dive reflex - not vagal toning
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In this book review of Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig, I take you through what I learned of Matt's battle with anxiety and panic attacks and my view of his advice.
This is an easy accessible book which I highly recommend. I covered many of the topics included in my latest book The Highly Sensitive Handbook just out now.https://amzn.to/3siraJl
If you would like to join my group Emotional Audit programme to help yourself heal - go here. https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/myemotionalaudit
Starts Oct 19, 2013.
0:00 Intro
00:40 anxiety and panic attacks
01:00 highly sensitive people
02:20 life is speeding up - social media information overload
04:00 our brain' struggle to keep up
05:00 panic attach symptoms discussed- the anxiety loop
06:00 finding things to help
07:00 online trolling is anonymous unvented anger - lack of accountability
08:45 acceptance is the key
09:20 anxiety is the battle against feeling
10:00 phone fears - electrosmog and addiction is rife
12:00 kindness = psychological decluttering, it springcleans the soul
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In this conversation with former Division 1 diver and now Integrative Sports Nutritionist Drew Mulvey, we look at how her past experiences of bullying and over-training affected her view of herself to create disordered eating resulting in burnout and a series of health diagnoses that left her feeling like she was completely outside the bell curve of normal. Find out how Drew turned this to gold when she found answers that she now uses in her career of integrative sports nutrition bringing whole health (mental, physical and spiritual) to others.
Drew can be contacted on https://redeeminglifenutrition.com
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In this podcast I discuss 'verbal inflammation in public discourse' - a term coined by Zach Bush which I loved. It is especially prevalent on social media where many people are completely anonymous or under pseudonyms. This type of inflammation gets its name from the effect of having an injury to the body and the redness and heat that follows - but this is the sort that we encounter on a daily basis when some of us content creators put our opinion out there and find we are attacked by people personally.
This happened to me recently which I describe in the video and was very distressing. Just because we are willing to speak up doesn't mean we deserve to be attacked. Kindness and mutual compromise in the discourse online seem to be very rare nowadays and people find it easy to polarize and point the finger. Here I take issue with this prevalent mode of attack and question the real reason people attack others is due to their own unhealed emotions. If we are in a heightened emotional state it is easy to attack in trying to defend ourselves against an unknown enemy which may be from past experience and nothing to do with the present experience we are having. It is up to all emotionally literate and compassionate people to refuse to take part in this destructive polarization and demonization of others.
I was inspired by this discussion by Zach Bush on the Rich Roll podcast here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTHUFDH6Trk
My gene keys showed me my DNA is programmed to talk truth to power and be a healing voice. Check out your gene keys here https://genekeys.com
0:00 Intro
2:22 Putting yourself in the public eye invites attack due to unprocessed hurts
3:39 Zach Bush describes 'Inflammation and polarization in public discourse'
4:49 No accountability in social media - me right you wrong
5:50 Highly Sensitive People and social shaming
7:52 Out of inflammation to compassion
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In this presentation as part of my community group sessions each month (join in here), I talk about the importance of the Cell Danger Response and why it is so key as to how people get stuck in chronic disease states.
Based on the work of Robert Naviaux which you can access here
https://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/
or a simplified article with the diagrams I mention here
https://aonm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Cell-Danger-Response-IHCAN.pdf
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The Tyranny of Thinking - How Overthinking Exacerbates Symptoms in Chronic Illness. The thinking (cognitive) parts of our brain are extraordinary problem solvers but what happens when the thinking is part of the problem? In this podcast as part of my weekly updates on matters related to Emotional Health and Healing, I discuss The Tyranny of Thinking. How over-thinking and rumination takes us down the rabbit hole of identification with fear and catastrophization whereby any new symptom or feeling we have immediately needs to be analysed and problem solved. The difficulty with this is that raises the stress level and creates more diverse and intractable symptoms. Find out how to break the cycle of being in your head all the time.
Giving some examples I describe how thinking drives more and diverse symptoms which modern medicine struggles to understand. See my book The Scar that won't Heal for more info https://mybook.to/ljxjh Join in my Emotional AUDIT group programme - starts end October 23 or the monthly Community Sessions https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/book
00:00 Intro - thinking is only 15% of functioning - our executive capacity
01:46 overthinking is your brain pattern matching to previous experience
02:30 overwhelm of diagnosis can induce problem solving strategy
05:00 non organic symptoms are not due to tissue damage but to repressed emotion 06:31 scans and investigations focus the mind on more thinking/worrying
07:30 a bottom up approach uses past experience to inform emotional release
08:00 the anxiety cycle needs breaking somatically (by vagal toning) with EFT/tapping 09:00 implicit memory of threat gets triggered by current life triggers needs soothing 10:00 emotions are the missing link in healing - the cell danger response and gene expression
10:20 The Emotional AUDIT programme and Community Sessions (both group sessions)
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Find out how to reclaim your emotional equilibrium in this fascinating and practical talk where I demonstrate exactly why this happens and HOW to rebalance your brain and nervous system with somatic (body-based) interventions YOU CAN DO ANYWHERE.
In this video interview by The Serene Lawyer, Doris Goodenough, I talk about Emotional Resilience and avoiding re-traumatisation in professional life.
Lawyers and other professionals often work with highly traumatised clients and may actually have emotional trauma in their own life so risk being vicariously traumatised. This may not show itself in obvious ways as they have developed highly effective coping strategies to minimise the external effects of emotions! But their body feels it internally anyway.
Contact Doris on https://serenelawyer.com
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Watch another video
GUIDE TO TAPPING AND HAVENING https://youtu.be/PFr2eDcYE-I
WHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tA
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Did you know that anxiety, pain and fatigue are caused by implicit memories stored in the body from childhood? Whenever you were overwhelmed when young and couldn't process your emotions, that alarm signal gets stored in the body as an unconscious memory of threat that continues to trigger your autonomic nervous system. So, to heal your symptoms you have to access and soothe your body's sensations to calm the threat. This is most easily done with a somatic practitioner and supported with self-help methods like regulated breathwork or yoga nidra.
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Watch a video
GUIDE TO TAPPING AND HAVENING https://youtu.be/PFr2eDcYE-I
EMDR & BIRTH TRAUMA - a Case Study https://youtu.be/S2g5KgbYZdM
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
Dr Chatterjee's interview with Dr Russell Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjDLjhsLdI&t=7504s
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In this audio I discuss how EMDR works and could help you recover from childhood trauma including early experiences you won't remember such as peri-natal trauma. I talk about why Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing works well with birth trauma and other common experiences that cause medically unexplained symptoms like anxiety, heart palpitations, bed-wetting or urinary problems, over or under salivation, facial ticks, etc. I also discuss a real life EMDR case study from one of my recent clients.
This is an update to a video I recorded over 2 years ago which unfortunately had rather dodgy sound. So I've re-recorded and taken the chance to add a few new bits of information.
Check out my Attachment course mentioned here:
https://dr-patricia-worby-alchemy-training.thinkific.com/courses/attachment-trauma
00:00 Intro
00:20 EMDR for single issue traumas and PTSD from birth trauma
02:02 Attachment trauma triggered in daily life gives strange autonomic symptoms
03:30 Anxiety, facial ticks, body pain, difficulties swallowing, Bell's Palsy
04:23 Complex PTSD
04:51 Case Study
05:17 How EMDR is effective
06:55 Traumatic vs. narrative memory
09:00 Changing YOUR life experience
10:13 Lifetime issues can be resolved
Watch a video
GUIDE TO TAPPING AND HAVENING https://youtu.be/PFr2eDcYE-I
THE GUT BRAIN IS NOT JUST A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM https://youtu.be/Mmo7qW-AuX8
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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In this audio I discuss the importance of trauma/ Adverse Childhood Experience/ACEs to mental and emotional health. I describe what ACE's are and how they are the unresolved traumas that happen even in ordinary childhoods that eventually cause physical problems later on in life.
0:00 Intro
0:41 PTSD symptoms
01:22 ACE studies
03:19 trauma in the average childhood
03:40 high sensitivity as a source of shame
04:43 trauma is anything that overwhelms the child emotionally
05:52 thinking brain is offline in childhood
06:56 autonomic nervous system dysregulation
08:32 physical and mental health manifestations
09:30 set point for stress is lowered
11:00 takeaway points/summary
Watch a relevant video
GUIDE TO TAPPING AND HAVENING https://youtu.be/PFr2eDcYE-I
EMDR USED IN RESOLVING BIRTH TRAUMA - a Case Study https://youtu.be/S2g5KgbYZdM
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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In this week 5 audio of my microdosing journey, we see that a surprising change has occurred that I hadn't expected at all....
As a middle aged woman and therapist my experience may be different from many of the microdosing YouTubers out there and I wanted to give my perspective.
0:00 intro
0:18 random dreams
00:48 weight loss
01:32 fat storage function
02:22 detoxing
03:10 emotional stress and hormonal burden
04:49 easier than juicing!!
05:22 flexible protocol
Watch VIDEOS
Week 1 https://youtu.be/v9xcBI4748k
Week 2 https://youtu.be/L3kBPx13KoY
Week 3 https://youtu.be/MnZqHEBL4uc
Week 4 https://youtu.be/DQiRIZcae4g
Week 5 https://youtu.be/KehCsG8mA0s
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If you suffer with migraines, this podcast is for you! With background as a research scientist and a PhD in Somatic Trauma Release, I talk about WHY you get migraines and the real reason why pills and medicines are not the solution. Pills do not tackle the root cause which is to do with inflammation caused by: stress, gut dysbiosis, toxins and your liver's ability to detoxify. Migraines are particularly common in women and it's time we start talking about and fixing the root cause, not just dulling the symptoms.
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- See the article about the new wafer drug Rigemepant here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/31/new-migraine-drug-on-nhs-could-help-thousands-of-patients-in-england It targets the CGRP (calcitonin gene receptor peptide) and makes your brain less responsive to stress.
- See evidence of the stress relationship here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475609
- See Castor oil packing tips here: https://www.healthline.com/health/castor-oil-pack
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In this week 4 recording of my microdosing journey, we see that great changes have occurred and have been affecting me physically.
As a middle aged woman and therapist, my experience may be different from many of the microdosing bloggers out there and I wanted to give my perspective.
0:00 intro
0:15 gut issues
01:00 why now? the terrain and susceptibility
02:10 toxic burden
03:16 DNA type affects detoxification
05:00 showing truth me via symptoms and dreams
06:49 the plus side - sensory enhancement - nature connectedness
08:00 green juicing experience
09:00 revelations - it's all in the questions you ask
watch my VIDEOS
Week 1 https://youtu.be/v9xcBI4748k
Week 2 https://youtu.be/L3kBPx13KoY
Week 3 https://youtu.be/MnZqHEBL4uc
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Find out what drives our DNA to turn on and off. The hidden factor in each of us that controls our genetic blueprint to be read - and it's something that all of us have but many of us are unaware of - our microbiome.
Please if you like my podcast Buy me a coffee here: https://bmc.link/patriciawoE
watch a related video on Youtube:
HOW YOUR GUT TALKS TO YOUR BRAIN https://youtu.be/SyukvTg34og
THE GUT BRAIN NOT JUST A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM https://youtu.be/Mmo7qW-AuX8
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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An update from week 3 of my microdosing journey - this has been less eventful but still interesting. Find out why I started this journey and what I hoped to achieve.
You always need a question when working with 'the wood'. The question I am asking is - what do I need to let go of?
I work in the mental health field helping people overcome anxiety.
00:00 intro
03:22 my 'why' personally speaking
06:25 plant intelligence
08:00 my 'why' professionally
WATCH THE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
Week 1 https://youtu.be/v9xcBI4748k
Week 2 https://youtu.be/L3kBPx13KoY
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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Discover How your Gut talks to your Brain - The Mystery of Psycho Neuro Immunology.
In this 11 min audio we see that more information comes to your brain from your gut than vice versa, and together with the messages from the microbiome (the microbes that live in and on you) convey your state of health. But most people have no idea how to read their gut intelligence, or take care of it. No wonder we have an epidemic of anxiety when our guts are so inflamed.
0:17 Mind and Body Connection is mainly up from body
02:00 Nutritional Deficiency is endemic - too little good fats, too many carbs
04:00 Dysbiosis is an imbalance of gut flora leading to cravings
05:30 Anxiety is a result
06:30 Psycho-neuro-immunology
08:20 The stress response is more complex than we thought
09:40 Inflammation in the brain from stress
10:00 Listening in and tuning up
Next steps:listen to my previous podcast or watch a video presentation^^
THE GUT BRAIN NOT JUST A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: https://youtu.be/Mmo7qW-AuX8
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
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MY WEBSITE: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/contact
I am a former scientific researcher, and now naturopath and somatic trauma therapist.
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
The second video on my personal microdosing journey tells it like it is. The ups and the downs, the highs and the lows.
Please note this my personal opinion and journey and does not reflect my professional work or the recommendations I make to clients.
Here's the first video if you missed it.https://youtu.be/v9xcBI4748k
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com
How do you identify? What's in a label anyhow? in this 20 minute video I talk about the nature of identity and how it is constructed. Many of us face an identity crisis at some point in our lives and finding belonging can be difficult. Throughout this video we discuss the idea that identity is fluid and may change over time but we may hold onto it long after its value is gone.
Please 'LIKE' this video if you enjoyed it. It helps me spread the word.
HOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8
watch a video ^^
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01:00 belonging as the driver to identity
01:35 growing up as an outsider
02:35 shame around sexuality
03:03 puberty as a magnifier of difference
04:40 identity as a negotiation, a construct of a lifetime, not a label
06:17 labels don't solve the underlying issues
07:10 performance masks insecurity
08:00 constructed identity along a scale
09:16 belonging as a driver of authentic identity
10:00 masking true emotions with performance
10:59 fear of losing belonging when you change
12:26 voice of reason
13:30 chronic illness as a crisis of identity
14:49 unhealthy attachment to identity
15:30 finding meaning through exploration and healing
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
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Group Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.com
Author/Book site: https//patriciaworby.com
Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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This is my personal journey with microdosing Iboga. Week 1 (Day 1).
My first dose is 0.125mg (not micrograms as I incorrectly said). That's about a 20th of a standard dose to be hallucinogenic.
The idea with microdosing is to be able to function normally but be perhaps more focussed and creative, and perhaps to release fears and feel more grounded (that's iboga's forte). It is the root bark of the African shrub Tabernanthe iboga (so I was both right and wrong!)
Please note these videos in no way reflect my professional work and are a frank and honest account of experimenting with this new therapy intended to help people with intractable problems like anxiety and depression. As I have suffered from anxiety all my life, it seems like something worth trying.
James Fadiman's Microdosing info - https://microdosing.com/
If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP
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Podcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...
121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.
COMING SOON:
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In this 16 min talk I cover how we as humans often learn through adversity - especially if we get ill in some way via chronic anxiety/depression or physical illness. But often our responses are scripted by past emotional experiences which teach us who we are and therefore limit our beliefs about ourselves and thus our behaviours. This can cause us to do things like pushing through, ignoring our needs, overworking, dissociating our emotions and becoming hyper-vigilant to threat ('it's not safe').
00:45 The pearl and oyster a metaphor for creating meaning from illness
02:02 Long-term illness as a learning or healing
03:01 Illness as a teacher - not a quick fix
03:33 What is illness - why do we get dis-ease?
04:30 Emotional repression as a trigger for disease
05:02 Energetic signatures of different emotions - physiological imprints
05:45 Repressed emotions from childhood
06:42 Learned responses to emotions from those around you (parents)
07:20 Body memory
08:10 Beliefs about ourselves develop as responses to childhood experience
09:09 What lies beneath surface coping strategies
10:08 Patterns of holding in the body
10:51 Fixed responses to situations are programmed!
11:40 Dissociation as a form of repression
12:48 Symptoms as a failure of repair
13:48 A two way street to brain and body
15:02 Medical education is lacking in ignoring the mindbody link
16:14 Life-changing information
Contact me: Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
Find me: Patricia Worby Alchemy Therapies Fb, YouTube,@patriciaworby, Insta, amazon
How do you identify? What's in a label anyhow? in this 20 mins video I talk about the nature of identity and how it is constructed.
We see that identity is fluid and may change over time but we may hold onto it long after its value is gone.
01:00 belonging as the driver to identity
01:35 growing up as an outsider
02:35 shame around sexuality
03:03 puberty as a magnifier of difference
04:40 identity as a negotiation, a construct of a lifetime, not a label
06:17 labels don't solve the underlying issues
07:10 performance masks insecurity
08:00 constructed identity along a scale
09:16 belonging as a driver of authentic identity
10:00 masking true emotions with performance
10:59 fear of losing belonging when you change
12:26 voice of reason
13:30 chronic illness as a crisis of identity
14:49 unhealthy attachment to identity
15:30 finding meaning through exploration and healing
Contact me: Alchemy Therapies & Emotional Masterclass
Find me: Patricia Worby Alchemy Therapies Fb, YouTube,@patriciaworby, Insta, amazon
In this 23 min audio I talk about the value or not or diagnosis for a condition.
Whether a mental or physical health condition people often hang on to a diagnosis but holistic medicine sees things differently.
1:00 meaning and etymology of word dia-gnosis
2:08 knowing as feeling via the body
3:19 chronic (longterm) conditions are different
3:58 how modern medicine creates a diagnosis
4:50 signs and symptoms
5:15 shift from infectious to lifestyle diseases
5:40 toxification of the body
7:20 women have more chronic conditions
7:50 CFS/Long covid /fibromyalgia- a diagnosis of exclusion
9:45 mental health is the poor relation
10:57 diagnosing mental health even more difficult
11:30 misdiagnosis
12:00 attachment to a diagnosis
12:45 diagnosis of autism is itself traumatic
14:50 not gender specific questions
14:50 ADHD
16:00 feeling an outsider by being neurologically different
17:10 importance of grounding
17:30 different with holistic medicine
18:00 harmonising the body vibrationally
18:48 cancer as an example of loss of harmonic growth
19:53 importance of emotions
20:20 all disease has a mindbodyspirit component
21:20 the pressure to get well
21:38 mental and physical health are linked
22:26 each person is individual
22:45 get out of all or nothing thinking
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An update on my travels in the crypto space in the last 6 months. It's been a mixed bag of ups and downs (but mostly ups) due no doubt to the general turbulence in the market.
In order here are the subjects I cover:
00:50 My interest in blockchain
03:00 The effect of covid on financial security
03:00 Central digital currency concerns
04:50 Getting back financial control
05:20 Hyperfund/verse.... oh dear
07:00 DAISY - yay!
10:12 Lyopay (WeWe Global) - compliant cloud minting, phone and and AI forex trading
12:45 Vidilook - pays you for watching online videos!!
15:26 Crypto community
16:26 AI as an opportunity
18:02 You can do it too!
My first project - Hyper (failed). Least said the better...
My second project DAISY - an AI (artificial intelligence) algorithm that makes money on forex trading while you sleep. This years return has been over 800%.!! speaks for itself
To join use this link https://daisy.global/r/resonance1.
More information from the man who got me involved here: https://www.cash-master.com/daisy/
My 3rd project has been lyopay (under the umbrella of WeWe Global). This is an impressive project that seeks to become the No.1 crypto provider. They have an exchange, travel agency, phone and minting programme already. The phone actually automatically mints for you $30 per month AND if you buy a combo pack in April (this gets you access to Quantwise which is their AI forex trading package PLUS a free smartphone which continues to earn money for you for the lifetime of the phone). Sounds amazing? It is.
Find out more here: https://wewe.global/intro/
Sign up https://www.wewe.global/signup/LIC987506
Finally, if that wasn't enough the latest buzz in the crypto world is Vidilook which harnesses the power of advertising revenue and links it to a crypto currency called VDL which you earn on your phone (your existing smartphone - you just signup to the platform) using this code:
https://h5.vidilook.org/#/pages/login/login?code=B63CFE
Find out more about it here https://vidilook.io/#/pc/home
Please note I am not a financial advisor and any of my personal opinions expressed in this video does not constitute financial advice. You are advised to do your own due diligence and never put in more than you can afford to lose.
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In this talk I describe my latest book The Mystery Of Number: A Universal Pattern Language and Geometry of Life. See Chapters for images included in the video or watch on Youtube. https://youtu.be/PU-uajmouIk
4:29 Why I wrote the book
5:00 How number underlies reality that we perceive
5:55 The 'Barnsley Fern' - an artificial fractal
7:02 Examples of spiral growth patterns in nature
7:35 Fibonacci sequence and spiral
9:26 Euler's Number growth sequence has memory
you can purchase my book on amazon here
https://mybook.to/jRepYF
I have linked Dr Viehweger's talk in the video but you can also find them here
https://youtu.be/s-JXkMn1YXE
and here https://youtu.be/PeKqgnwPiX8
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In this short video I introduce an understanding of high sensitivity (HSP or Sensory Processing Sensitivity) as a trait and why it can lead to much anxiety and suffering in a neurotypical world.
Come join my community of highly sensitive people - the Community Sessions run each month where we learn and support understanding in a supportive environment. Search under Group sessions here:
https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
See other resources at:
https://sensitivityresearch.com/ (Michael Ploess at Queen Mary University, London).
https://highlysensitiveperson.com (Elaine Aron's site)
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In this short 10 minute discussion I talk about the cardinal signs of a sensitive child and how this is not to be viewed as a problem but one in which with the right nurturing care, the child can thrive.
Find out what you can do to help your child or indeed yourself if you are sensitive to thrive in this world.
Find Elaine Aron's book The Sensitive Child here. https://mybook.to/HQwHxX
See the work of Judith Orloff (for adult sensitives) https://drjudithorloff.com/
See also my other podcast on Orchid and the Dandelion Child here https://youtu.be/5TBGH9eH4XU
HSP #highlysensitiveperson #sensitive #elainearon #healing #neurodiversity
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In this 21 min book review I talk about the book 'Chaos' by James Gleick. A very entertaining narrative about the discovery of order within disorder as exemplified by a branch of science called complexity theory . This multidisciplinary tale is told of how science unfolds as well as the underlying pattern found in complex systems where non-linear systems unfold dependent on initial conditions.
We find that this understanding applies in many branches of science: mathematics, thermodynamics, meteorology, population growth, evolutionary biology to name just a few. And I wondered as I read how this applied to the work I do - psychology and complex brain states of 'order within disorder' (autism would be a good example). Could this be a failure of the built in feedback or self-learning capability? Tune in to find out.
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In this book review I talk about It's all in your Head by Suzanne O'Sullivan which details the rise of psychosomatic illness or 'conversion disorders' as they are sometimes called. Suzanne is a neurologist who works in the NHS in the UK and sees at least 30% of her patients (mostly female) getting this diagnosis. It is often devastating for patients who feel that this means they're not really ill and it's all made up! This couldn't be further from the truth.
In this talk I detail the misunderstanding of what subconscious stress can do in the body and why it's important to challenge the common perception that because there is nothing organically wrong that means it's not a real disease.
All disease is a mixture of mind and body - and unresolved emotions lie at the core of these conditions.
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in this short 15 min piece I talk about the importance of understanding the numbers and mathematics of the world we live in and how this is the subject of my next book - currently on the drawing board.
Find out how number patterns (fractals) are the underlying structure of the universe and how we interact with that.
I hope for completion in Feb/March 2023 and am looking for people to review. Please contact me if you are interested. Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk or https://patriciaworby.com
You can go more deeply into this subject by viewing this conversation with Dr Rainer Viehweger here. https://youtu.be/zWBXv1I6DsE
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In this 17 min review I look at the second half of the book Becoming Supernatural by Dr Joe Dispenza.
We see his ideas of the chakras (energy centres) and how energy and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) moves up the body from the base changing brain wave states and unlocking potential.
I compare his understanding with being in survival mode to mine and how it influences our life experience.
I also show what i think are the strengths and weaknesses of the book.
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In this 15 min audio I talk about the importance of elevating emotions like Hope, Gratitude and Appreciation to alleviate #anxiety and create #healing states within the body.
Based on observations from lessons learned from working with clients and also picking up themes from the wonderful animated story by @charliemackesy 'The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse' which talks about the importance of #kindness and #courage, I weave together an important understanding of why in 2023 we have to make a effort to cultivate hope and banish crippling fear.
See Charlie's website here https://www.charliemackesy.com/
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In this 16 mins presentation I talk about Anxiety states being a failure of unconscious regulation by the pre-frontal cortex (part of your thinking brain).
Much of who we are is body-based and it is a bottom up process that creates unconscious threat from past experience.
By understanding how these states appear and how to build an internal sense of yourself as safe NOW, these bottom up processes are able to talk to your unconscious emotional/survival brain via the autonomic nervous system.
There is hope for healing anxiety, but it is body-based not cognitive.
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In this 14 min presentation I talk about the importance of meaning in life and particularly re-finding that when you are ill. Drawing on the work of Jordan Peterson and Joe Dispenza's 'Becoming Supernatural' I examine why meaning is so important and why illness can be a major roadblock but also opportunity to change.
jordanpeterson #joedispenza #meaning #chronicfatigue
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In this discussion I cover the importance of living according to your values and what that means for self-empowerment and health.
Learn what living congruently really means and how it impacts your and those around you.
For the London Real interview please see here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfHo...
Find me on:
https://alchemytherapies.co.uk - 121 and group therapy for fatigue-related conditions
https://emotionalmasterclass.com - intensive program to fast-track your healing
http://myemotionalaudit.com - group program
https//patriciaworby.com - author and book site
https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/podcast - podcast
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In this short audio I talk about tingling, pins and needles and changes in temperature or feelings of numbness as the body's way of indicating autonomic state.
See also my video on Alice in Wonderland Syndrome here. https://youtu.be/FBW_KX7g9r4
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My view on witnessing this fantastic interview with Dr Gabor Mate on London Real TV - a most honest man to man discussion (best viewed on the native channel rather than the snippet on Youtube).
https://londonreal.tv/dr-gabor-mate-the-myth-of-normal-trauma-illness-healing-in-a-toxic-culture/
Feeling the sensations of stuck trauma in our bodies is absolutely vital for healing. Trauma is not just a mental construct and it needs to be witnessed with compassion in order to be metabolized.
Then the body can re-set and we can learn new more adaptive ways of coping with life. Healing starts with you and it can start now.
I can be found on https://www.myemotionalaudit.com and https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk
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Here's my summary of what I learned at the weekend conference with speakers: #greggbraden, LynnMcTaggart, Dr#DavidHamilton #mariannewilliamson, TeresaBullard, ZulmaReyo.
Find out what amazing things current science is telling us with regard to human potential. see https://ttche.org for more information.
If you'd like to live to your full potential please see this free webinar to sign up for my Emotional Masterclass programme.
https://www.emotionalmasterclass.com/webinar-registration
In this short audio I talk about the latest cancer breakthrough as reported by the BBC and how this may not be what it seems.
Here's the link to the story
httpswww.bbc.co.uknewshealth-62797777
And my course if you would like to know more about the mind body connection and how to heal yourself
httpsalchemytherapies.co.ukthrive
In this short audio I talk about the collective loss and trauma of losing someone who has been a figurehead of stability throughout my lifetime.
The loss of Queen Elizabeth II was a national shock that reverberated through all layers of society. It was and is a loss of identity - and this feels very personal even though most of us never knew her personally.
It is also the anniversary of another death - that of my father 40 years ago this October and so I recount how grief affects us and how it is possible to heal.
You can contact me on alchemytherapies.co.uk or myemotionalaudit.com
In this the second installment of my review of The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenburg. Here I talk about how electromagnetic radiation affects the human body. Chapters on Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease as diseases of modern life linked to the amount of EMFs in the environment. He even has a theory that describes why and how the cellular mechanisms are being poisoned.
In part 3 I will talk about a new theory of the myelin sheath that surrounds our nerve cells - I missed it out in this one. And do a quick summary.
An essential book - so dense that it requires 2 or 3 reviews.
Find the book here https://amzn.to/3eym9FG
Another in my ongoing discussion of Narcissism = this time turning my attention on parents and friends and co-workers:
- How to spot a narcissist
- How to disarm a narcissist
- How to recover from a narcissist
See you for the follow up which will be looking at self-esteem!
In this 30 min conversation I am talking with Julie Turner, former sufferer with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and now recovered, free to enjoy her life.
Find out:
- what life was like for Julie before she began work with me
- how she found the experience of going through therapy (and how quick it was!)
- how life has changed for her now since recovering
We discuss her experience and why she chose to work with me and her advice to anyone else considering it.
This is an honest account from someone who did not get paid to take part but wanted to spread the word and help others.
Join us!
Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and https//patriciaworby.com
Chrysalis Effect Practitioner and Somatic Trauma Specialist.
In this second podcast that talks about the schemas or wounds we carry from our childhoods and how this affects our behaviours and beliefs (including what we buy - advertising is a relationship too), I cover the remaining 5 schemas based on Jeffrey Young's book Reinventing your Life.
Hear the first audio here.
Did you know that most purchasing decisions are emotional in nature and that advertisers know exactly how to tap into your various emotions?
Understand how these schemas affect you in life.
Learn to heal these wounds with psychosensory somatic work - contact me on alchemytherapies.co.uk or myemotionalaudit.com
In this first part of my 2 part audio podcast I talk about my experience at the VidTao Live event and how hugely successful copywriter Parris Lampropolous blew the audience away with his talk on selling to emotional wounds. The book he mentioned is Jeffrey Young's Reinventing Your Life which is available on amazon.
My book The Scar that won't Heal is also available here.
In this short audio I talk about one of the strange neurological distortions that occurs in chronic #stress states:. Called 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome', it is a form of somatic dissociative response that occurs when the nervous system fails to relay the correct proprioceptive (sometimes also called kinaesthetic -w here the body is in space) information back to the brain.
It often occurs after trauma to that body part but may also be globalised as in chronic pain.
I believe it relates to a memory of threat.
Here how it shows up in some people and what you can do about it.
For the medical view see the paper here
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223006/
The lessons I learned in the self publishing process are HUGE.
Here I distill them down into 5 essentials for any would-be self published author
If you would like to review either book talked about here:
- The Dementia Diaries
- The Scar that Won't Heal
please do. They were and are a labour of love
Next book mentioned here is provisionally titled "
Life after Death: Messages from my Parents in the Afterlife and my aim is to publish this over the summer so it should be live within a few weeks.
in this short audio I talk about my latest book which is a big departure for me as it's a personal account of going through a dementia journey with my mum and the 9 lessons I learned. The emphasis here is on it being a journey you can navigate without fear.
The book is available on amazon uk here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dementia-Diaries-Lessons-Gracefully-Daughters-ebook/dp/B0B61DFTNS
and US here https://www.amazon.com/Dementia-Diaries-Lessons-Gracefully-Daughters-ebook/dp/B0B61DFTNS
I n this 8 mins podcast I raise the important of a spiritual connection when healing. And I'm not talking about spirituality as religion or a belief system but the sense of connection to some purpose higher than your own physical self.
In this podcast I talk about the second Emotional AUDIT programme which builds and adapts what i learned from running the first ever one last year. A chance to learn about and heal your attachment wounding and reverse longstanding issues of chronic symptoms like fatigue, pain and anxiety. Please note that you only now get 1 week between modules as from student feedback people didn't want to wait that long!
In this 30 min presentation I discuss the brain and physiology
The binaural audio I mentioned can be found on the Youtube channel The Power of You.
A short audio on how and why I am developing a new approach to healing chronic states of fatigue, pain or anxiety and why I believe this has never been done in quite this way before.
Here I discuss Shame - a much misunderstood emotion -
This is an example of the sort of interesting information I put out in our monthly sessions
Join us on the Community Programme
In this short audio I talk about how the singer Will Young struggled with trauma from boarding school experiences and how mental health fails the vast majority of people who have similar experiences.
In this short audio I talk about some of my concerns of trust in the use of technology like cryptocurrency and social media that seem to elevate lies and dogma above authenticity. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) are rife and need to be understood as reactions to uncertainty. Human beings need to understand and feel some trust in something and anonymity allows us to hide our authentic selves. Without good communication, there is no ability to trust or grow a relationship - including that we have with money.
Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, http://myemotionalaudit.com and https://emotionalmasterclass.com
In this short audio talk about Finding your innate creativity as recommended in the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. in this review of I particularly focus on what she calls 'crazy makers' from Chapter 2 of the book. How some blocked creatives use their energy to keep you waylaid from uncovering yours.
Find out how I use this idea in helping people in their recovery from chronic illness.
contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and https://myemotionalaudit.com
In this episode I look at the brain basis of Emotional Decision Making. Why we have parts of our brain that deal with our emotions and in fact this is how we mostly make decisions..
A quick guide to why emotions are important and why we often repress them creating illness.
In this short video we look at why maintaining professional ethics help us to keep out of the rule of despots and tyrants. Civil servants(including police), doctors and lawyers are the mainstay of civil society and thus democracy.
It's not surprise that in the situation we find ourselves in now, these natural tendencies to question government actions are being systematically dismantled. Find out how and what you can do about it.
You can contact me on https://Alchemytherapies.co.uk or http://myemotionalaudit.com.
In this short video, part of my series of discussion of Chapters from the Book On Tyranny by Tim Snyder. This chapter looks at the importance of symbols that seek to divide us by making allegiances to points of view that have no option to dissent from. This is dangerous territory - whether it's wearing a badge to declare your politics or religion, or labelling your facebook profile with your vaccination status, these things matter because they create division in society which is the perfect precursor to totalitarianism.
You can contact me on https://Alchemytherapies.co.uk or http://myemotionalaudit.com.
in this short video we look at Chapter 3 of the book On Tyranny by Tim Snyder which is called Beware the One Party State - why democracy is important and needs defending! Part of my daily recordings of a chapter a day where the lessons from the 20th Century need to be learnt in the 21st.
You can contact me on https://Alchemytherapies.co.uk or http://myemotionalaudit.com.
In this short audio I talk about the lessons from Chapter 2 of 'On Tyranny' the fantastic book by Tim Snyder. In this Chapter 'Defend Institutions' I give my take on why this has been so difficult in recent years ..
Contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk (121 therapy) and http://myemotionalaudit.com (group work)
In this ultra short audio I talk about the lessons from Chapter 1 of the book On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
It is about the psychology of mass compliance and the lessons from Nazi Germany. In this chapter we learn about the Milgram experiment from 1961 which found a surprising fact about ordinary people..
In this short 14 min audio I introduce the importance of the book 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Snyder. Why its lessons from the 20th century are important to consider now in the 21st.
Part of a series - 1 recording per chapter to use bite-size quotes from the book to prompt discussion of why this particular period of history is so crucial and what we need to do to create a better future for our children.
Here in the introduction, we look at why democracies can fail and simple solutions from demagogues or compliant governments, applied in the face of increasing inequalities, can introduce terrible tyrannies on their people by subtle means. It is always ordinary people who carry or deny their own oppression, so learning to understand the lessons of the past might help us in resisting what is being waged in our name now.
Agree or disagree, you can contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk (121 therapy) and http://myemotionalaudit.com (group therapy/learning)
In this 21 min audio I talk about how most decisions are made by us emotionally using circuits in the brain not available to conscious awareness. Sadly this has been known about and manipulated by governments to change our behaviour to make us more compliant.
In the UK, the SAGE committee which advised the government throughout the pandemic, outlined ways in which social distancing and mask wearing could be encouraged using these tried and tested methods that are largely unconscious manipulations of these ancient emotional circuits in our limbic brains.
Now we see the polarisation of those of us who fought the narrative vs. those of us who complied in the belief that we were doing our 'moral' duty, so that we can no longer have the much needed dialogue to move the world on to better ways of living and thriving.
All of us want to avoid pain - but many of us move away from control or freedom restriction too. and those two polarities have been unnecessarily pitted against eachother. We can move together again towards a world which prioritises health vs. profit. Maybe by starting with what we agree on, we could have a genuine dialogue again.
For the original talk by David Charalambous mentioned in this talk please see here https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/reaching-people/
and to contact me please find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and http://myemotionalaudit.co.uk (121 and group emotional healing)
What have you learned in the pandemic?
In this short 15 min presentation I take you through why the last two years has been so difficult for those of us who already have highly attuned nervous systems (from childhood emotional overwhelm which wasn't resolved) and want to connect to feel safe in our lives but have been trained to see threat everywhere (hyper-vigilance). What happens when the very people we normally connect with become a source of threat?
Looking at the social, political and personal consequences of this and what we can do about this I ask some important questions about healing and recovery,
In this short audio I talk about how shame imprints the body to teach us that we are not enough, not worthy and how that shows up in undermining or destructive behaviours.
But all is not lost! You too can transform shame into joy when you find the limiting or core memories that imprinted this they can then be rewired. Find out how.
Contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and http://myemotionalaudit.com
In this short audio I explain how people create their own perception of who they are based on past experience. Find out how this creates an often distorted picture based on who you had to be to survive - and how to change this.
health #nutrition #healing #microbiome #gut #burnout #gutbrain
In this 26 min video I discuss with nutrition and wellbeing coach Paula Fenegan how she empowers her clients to make dietary and lifestyle changes through education and better choices.
We cover: the mind and body linkage via the gut, importance of the microbiome, changing mindset and other adjustments everyone can make to improve their health.
Contact Paula on https://paulafinegan.co.uk and myself on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this short 21 min audio I discuss team working with one of my collaborators Janie Perry on how our clients make better progress when working with more than one modality.
Janie is a naturopathic nutritionist who works to help improve people's gut health. But she noticed early on that people with a high degree of stress often were not making much improvement. So, by working with those clients with my input to tackle the longterm stress we enhance the nutritional input as the body is switched from being in fight and flight mode.
I have noticed that more support and accountability have huge effects. This has led me to set up a group programme called The Emotional Audit Programme (http://myemotionalaudit.com) for people to help heal their longterm stress together with the support of others.
Janie can be contacted on www.happybean.co.uk and you can contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this short audo on anxiety and emotional eating (food addictions, cravings and restrictions) I cover why these patterns emerge and how using willpower or self-admonishment don't work to transform them. The reason is we use food as a substitute for feeling that which we find uncomfortable or overwelming. So instead of shaming ourselves we need to use compassion and sensory tools that allow us to connect with our emotions without fear.
You can contact me on http://myemotionalaudit.com and https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this short 11min audo I discuss what true Informed Consent is and why the principle is a resigning matter for 80K - 100k NHS (National Health Service) staff in the UK.
NHS100k
Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this short 16 min video I talk about the online Emotional Audit Programme - an online group programme that helps support and inform you to help recover from long-term chronic health problems. In this unique 7 module online group programme we show you how to make changes in the way your nervous system regulates so that your physiology can function better and you can reconnect with your self and your life.
Find out what you will learn in each module and why this I believe the material in here is simply not found anywhere else.
A chance to heal in the company of a healing community of like-minded people.
Find the course on http://myemotionalaudit.com or contact me via https://alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this 32 min audio Shelagh and I discuss the energetic component of healing and how emotions relate to that.
So many people suffer chronic conditions which are related to energy blockages in the system - which techniques like kinesiology can help to address. Emotions that get 'stuck' in biophysical patterns of holding, such as traumatic birth, disconnection, over-responsibility can combine with sensitivity and past experience to manifest in the form of disease in mid-life and beyond.
We discuss this root-cause identification and release, as well as things you can do at home to help yourself re-energise and invigorate your body.
Shelagh can be contacted on https://enhanced-wellbeing.co.uk
I am on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk. My group programme is http://myemotionalaudit.com and my podcast is https://rebelhealthradio.com
In this short audio I talk about the strange hidden symptoms of low thyroid:
from dry eyes, thinning hair, hoarse voice, brittle nails and even - excess ear wax!
For more information on the holistic understanding of the thyroid and how to treat it see my other videos here. https://youtu.be/0i0SSmW9qCE
Contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, http://rebelhealthradio.com and http://myemotionalaudit.com
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In this 24 min Review I talk about the Book ''Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment' by Babette Rothschild.
Trauma treatment is now possible and it is much simpler and less painful than you might imagine. Babette was one of the first people to really understand that it is stored in the body not just the mind and that treatment therefore has to use the body to interact with and resolve the past experience.
This book taught me several important ideas that I was already using but it formalised them a little for me:
1/ the importance of knowing where on the autonomic arousal spectrum (ie. your nervous system balance) your client is by noticing certain signs and symptoms of each state.
2/avoiding going too fast into the past and keeping the client stabilised in the here an now with 'exteroception' - noticing things in the external environment
3/building resources of the client i.e. things that work or feel good to help the client stay calm
4/planning treatment like a recipe - what do we want to 'make' today
5/pacing appropriately by taking clients in and out of unsafety gently (pendulation)
6/ keeping the language accurate - ie., not going back into the past as if it's still happening (although of course that's how it feels with trauma) but reminding the client they are remembering the past and it's over.
7/adapting tools like yoga and mindfulness so they don't trigger the client
If you are interested in the book find it here. https://amzn.to/3eVpxHD
I can be contacted on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, http://myemotionalaudit.com and https://rebelhealthradio.com
in this 30 min audio I talk about my adventures in crypto in 2021 and what I learned.
I talk about some of the projects I am involved with including:
- Hyperverse (a membership scheme not an investment - contact me for my link)
- D.AI.SY and Uplift (not sure I can recommend this yet - it's yet to make a profit)
- Yield nodes (my link https://yieldnodes.com?a=gRdwZQ7mx8XOMGJ
- Luno as a Bitcoin Pioneer - Sign up at Luno.com. do your verification and then input my code BPPWORBY into the vouchers code to get your £30 worth of bitcoin.
- Bitsgap (still learning this one)
Please note this audio is from a video on my youtube channel where I share a screen to illustrate one of the projects. you can still enjoy this audio without the screenshare but if you are interested to follow up Yield nodes please follow the link above or go to the video here.
https://youtu.be/JN21MVuh6KY
What do we need to learn from what happened this year?
In this short (10 min) summary I cover the effects of the traumatic events of 2021 and how my ventures into online group work that has begun to help people unify and heal our disconnection with ourselves and eachother.
The Emotional Audit programme http://myemotionalaudit.com has just finished its first ever Founder membership run and here I give you the feedback I received - overall 10/10.
In this 7 Module 14 week course, with 7 live facilitated group sessions, we aim to help you heal your emotional trauma, pain and anxiety. Whilst not a substitute for individual work, the strength of coming together to explore our human experience and heal from it, is an extraordinary one.
If you wish to take part in the next run (February 2022) click on the link here http://myemotionalaudit.com
In this audio I talk about the emotional drivers of #chronic_pain and how resolving repressed emotions (particularly anger/rage) helps the nervous system to adjust to relieve pain in 6 sessions of body-based (somatic) #healing that uses messages (sensory cues) of safety to decrease the perceived threat that your nervous system is under.
Modern medical approaches miss out the mind body connection and seek only to deal with the symptom (peripheral pain in the postural muscles) rather than look at the cause which results from unprocessed emotions in the early years. The failure to have emotional needs of safety and support met in childhood (and sometimes the outright abuse!) is the most potent driver.
Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and my group programme http://myemotionalaudit.com
In this short audio I discuss where true health as an expression of a health and connected mind, body and spirit has been ignored in favour of a mechanistic and limited model of the 'human machine'. So called 'evidence based medicine' EBM has been appropriated for use by Big Pharma as an excuse to push the 2 arms of profit based medicine - surgery and pharmaceuticals to the detriment of our population.
That there is an alternative model is largely ignored and it's time to bring back a concept of health as wholeness - a deeper spiritual connection with who we are here to be and bring back meaning to lives that have become disconnected and anxious.
See the video version here.
https://youtu.be/VXoHdtb-TG0
In this short audio I talk about how anxiety and lack of emotional connection plays a major role in the development of mass formations of culture like the one we're in at the moment. Psychology has much to teach us about how even out elected leaders, traumatised as they are already, cannot lead us to a state of freedom as their minds are mobilised towards threat. We are all instates of low emotional resilience right now.
My thoughts an interpretation on a Pandemic podcast by a professor of psychology here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM
There are 4 pre-requisites for the kind of cultural narrative we are seeing during this pandemic:
- A disconnect from community/family/collective structures
- A lack of meaning in our lives (jobs or lives that give us no joy or meaning)
- A free floating anxiety
- Unresolved aggression
The effect of these being in place (and Brexit in the UK was the perfect playgroud) means that when we have no overall connection we will look for a false sense of groupthink to attach to (a very narrow focus) that does not allow for dialogue, dissent, informed opinion outside of the culturally prescribed narrative. Instead, anyone who does not agree is vilified, ostracised and alienated - and in the current context is also excluded from a lot of the things that make life meaningful: freedom of movement, freedom association and medical freedom in the assertion that 'we're all in it together' which eulogises some of those doing their jobs (NHS workers) whilst not rewarding them financially or recognising the huge sacrifices other people are forced to make when they cannot get treatment for the more routine problems (and indeed the more serious ones - cancer treatment for instance). Let alone the huge waste of resources and desperate lack of funding for mental health services that will surely lead to more anxiety, more alienation.
This is how totalitarian governments operate before instigating draconian measures to eliminate certain groups.
6 months ago I was just like you. I was sceptical, confused and wondering what all the fuss was about! in that time bitcoin value has doubled..
Then I began to look into the world fo cryptocurrency and decentralised finance. In this short video I invite all of you that have NO IDEA about cryptocurrency who are interested to get involved with £10 worth of FREE bitcoin - simply by downloading and validating the Luno app https://https://www.luno.com/ on your smartphone or tablet and using this code: BPPWORBY in the Rewards tab. That's it.
No strings, no sales, all you have to be is:
-over 18
-UK-based
-no previous purchase of bitcoin and ideally
- interested in learning more (although this is not compulsory there will be webinar invite to find out more about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Join the revolution!
Luno is FCA regulated (one of the few crytocurrency companies that is in the UK) and their app is simple and straightforward. No need to understand complex trading or the technology behind it. Just download, verify and go.
Contact me for more information or just go ahead and try it.
A 30 mins discussion of the importance of community and connection in child development with therapist and coach Carol Greenwood.
Since the industrial revolution, (and the agrarian revolution that accompanied it), when humans began to love outside of small groups and move to anonymous cities where they were encouraged to live in nuclear families, we have seen increasing fragmentation and disconnection from community.
This has certain mental and physical health consequences for our children and elders which we discuss as well as coming forward with some solutions.
Carol can be contacted on https://greenwood-therapies.co.uk
I can be contacted on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, rebelhealthradio.com and http://myemotionalaudit.com
In this short audio I explain how past experiences which were overwhelming create a neurological shut down called the freeze response. This is a profoundly low energy state. Find out how your past lives on in your body and what to do about it.
Find me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, https://rebelhealthradio.com and https://myemotionalaudit.com
In this episode I talk about how trauma transmits down the familial line (especially the female one) so what happened to you, your mother and grandmother actually plays out in your life.
I can be contacted on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk (121 emotional healing therapy), https://rebelhealthradio.com (podcast) and https://myemotionalaudit.com (group healing programme)
In this talk with my colleague Andy Anderson, we cover why stressful breathing patterns limit oxygen delivery to the body and in particular the mitochondria. These important organelles are the parts of our cells that create energy - and as Andy points out - it they aren't working properly we literally can't get out of bed! These are chronic fatigue states (and also chronic pain states like Fibromyalgia). Andy explains how he teaches people to breathe properly and what he recommends as supplementation to help bring this energy function back online.
Andy is Dorn method and Tui Na practitioner who combines easterna nd western methods to relieve pain and restriction of all kinks. He can be contacted at https://orchardtherapies.co.uk
I can be contacted via https://alchemytherapies.co.uk (trauma release) and http://myemotionalaudit.com (my online group programme for reversing stress related illness and trauma)
Spirituality is part of the way humans are constructed - matter is infused with consciousness which seeks to align us with all of nature. Our true self is one with everything but most of us are totally unaware of who we really are as we have become conditioned by our experiences (especially negative ones) like trauma and unresolved emotional experiences in childhood
Find out how and why a consideration of spirit is often left our of the dialogue in health and healing.
If you are interested in exploring this further I recommend my interactive course Attachment, Attunement and Finding the Authentic Self on Thinkific here https://dr-patricia-worby-alchemy-tra....
Also my online group programme the Emotional Audit has just started and its not too late to sign up here http://myemotionalaudit.com
If you wish to watch this as a video instead go here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLnDS7I59w
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sexuality #relationships #mental health #anxiety
- Do you wonder why sexual relationships go wrong?
- Why you struggle with intimacy?
Ever considered anxiety or emotional trauma to lie at the heart of this?
in this wide-ranging conversation we look at the unconscious drivers of sexual dysfunction and difficulties from the perspective of anxiety and trauma.
Linda is a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist who works with people to uncover the hidden anxiety beneath some of their struggles. In this conversation we consider why such a basic human need as sex and intimacy is often such a hidden part of people's lives or a a source of great suffering and shame. People often have patterns of behaviour and belief systems that are inherited from their past experience as children which they have never explored and which hinder them in their adult lives. Often it is about a lack of emotional safety with others and sometimes this leads to a feeling of loss of control or feelings of not being good enough (shame). Linda helps people to explore their unconscious patterns and by reframing them and relaxing the body to bring them to light and change them.
You can contact Linda on her website https://www.awakenthechange.com or you can contact me on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk or http://myemotionalaudit.com and https://rebelhealthradio.com
in this follow up to my first podcast where I raised the issue of human sexuality and its relationship to trauma, here I discuss why the emotional component is so vital to good sexual functioning.
In the light of polyvagal theory, we know that neurological (internal) safety is key to being able to function well sexually. Where mobilisation with threat occurs we cannot play, we feel too threatened, where immobilisation with fear occurs we cannot be intimate.
Sexual orientation or expression is along a continuum and many of us grow up with shame around this which inhibits good relationships until we come to acknowledge our shame as a learned response to overwhelm.
I can be contacted on https://alchemytherapies.co.uk and https://rebelhealthradio.com (podcast) and now my group Emotional Audit Programme on https://myemotionalaudit.com.
In this audio I talk about Peter Cummings' Adult Attachment Repair Model (AARM) which is a training and style of therapy much like I do with clients using EMDR. Peter uses a novel approach of an attachment proxy with a large stick which the client holds whilst concentrating on their internal sensations! It is a 'bottom-up' method of healing attachment (bonding with parents) wounding. This form of trauma (sometimes also called relational trauma occurs commonly when an emotional need was not reliably met in childhood and can result in common symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, hyper-vigilance and pain - all forms of disconnection with the wisdom of the body.
In order to heal this kind of trauma we need relational safety and is seems that holding a stick which is held by someone else and gently felt, (a 'transitional attachment object') establishes in our body a sense of connection and safety that allows the body to release any unresolved emotions held within. No I didn't believe this either but the results I have seen in the demo made me sit up in awe.
I discuss the relevance of this method for neurological rebalancing and how it compares with EMDR for trauma release.
A review of this method based on a presentation given by Peter Cummings on the inaura.com 'Power of you' conference. For more information on this go to adultattachmentrepairmdoel.com.
For more information and to contact me please go to alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this discussion with trauma practitioner and guide Kuljit Sehmi, we discuss a topic not usually covered in spiritual circles: money and finance.
We are both in the process of realigning our relationship with money and learning to make a passive income that gives us freedom to stop swapping out time for money and free ourselves from old parental patterns of money scarcity and fear.
We talk about our experiences of money growing up and then how we have realigned that in different ways - Kuljit by learning Forex trading, and myself by learning crypto. So much of what we are and do is defined by fear; learning that we can play a little and model the kind of abundant life we seek to create for our clients is both smarter and more in flow to life than either the avoidance or dismissal of money. It's what it can do that makes the difference - putting it to work to create more abundance is what we're all about, particularly as women.
Kuljit can be contacted on centrebalance.co.uk and I can be contacted via alchemytherapies.co.uk or patriciaworby.com
In this 10 mins audio I describe how sexual response and sexuality may be dysfunctional if you have suffered any form of emotion trauma.
This is due to a disconnect with ourselves and our nervous system's adaptive responses.
I cover polyvagal theory and how it relates to sexual functioning, difficulties in conception, sexual development and relationships.
For sexual functioning to go well we need a balanced autonomic nervous system
in future session I will cover more about sexual identity.
For more information go here
In this 30 min discussion I and my colleagues from Greenwood Holistic Health Group discuss the risk factors for long covid and associated health conditions of post-viral fatigue.
When we look at any state of health as along a continuum we begin to see that many factors may predispose us to illness without us necessarily showing signs of inflammatory processes - so called 'silent inflammation'. Many seemingly health people have this going on with gut issues, dry skin, back pain etc and then if they are under a lot of stress from toxins, exercise, emotional stress, etc their immune system cannot fight the virus and they end up suffering longer term symptoms.
In this wide ranging group discussion we look at this from a macro (environmental/social) and micro (cellular) level and what needs to happen so that healing can complete.
find us on fatigue-free.me and me individually on alchemytherapies.co.uk
Second in my series of podcasts on the financial freedom journey into crypto currency.
Many people are put off investing in this as it's considered:
- too complicated/scary
- too volatile
- only for financial whizzkids with loads of money
In this video I debunk some of these misconceptions and further explain the reasons why I think crypto is a democratic alternative to traditional banking and how and why I got involved.. See also my first video on the Hyperfund.
In this one I focus on a crowd-funding AI platform DAISY which is currently producing good returns (30-40% p/a) on as little as a £$100 investment as purely passive income while you sleep! You don't need to do referrals or get involved with the marketing to others so prevalent in the MLM arena. With the upcoming release of a new coin (a rival to bitcoin) available to purchase at a discount, now is the time to get involved. If you are interested in finding out more go here. Right now there is extra incentive. There is a chance to buy Daisy tokens (a form of crypto currency) for just over a $1US when the public offering (ICO) will be $5 per coin with a projected growth of at least 10% per year (could be anywhere upwards from that of course - maybe even 400%). Go here to take part. You can follow this video too to find out how to do the deposit. But please use my invitation link not his as you found it first via this podcast and you will need that to take part.
NB please be aware I am not a financial adviser and there are financial implications to any investment especially in crypto which is largely unregulated so please take this as educational only. If you wish to get advice please use a financial adviser or specialist crypto tax specialist.
And if you are thinking why is a health podcast talking about crypto - I think financial freedom will give me the chance to create the kind of healing community /space that I have always dreamed of. Join me, make it happen.
A new idea for a healing community of people recovering from chronic illness.. I
For years now, I’ve been working with people with all manner of ‘unexplained’ or 'mystery' symptoms of anxiety or chronic fatigue or pain and helping them to see that there is another approach which takes into account what happened to you in childhood. I work to help uncover the hidden trauma or attachment trauma (breaches in trust like betrayal, humiliation or just not getting the support you needed at the right time).
This has profound implications for your biology not just your mental health. The Adverse Childhood Event (ACE) study of 1998 showed us trauma is common and not just the major events like war or abuse but the drip feed of not being enough/unloved or unsupported at some time in your life; so anytime where you were overwhelmed. This can happen through no fault of your parents – if your mother had post natal depression or your birth was difficult, your parents had their own bereavement or someone on the family was ill or struggling financially or maritally.
I wrote a book about this in 2015 (The Scar that won’t Heal) and have been teaching this information and helping people to resolve their own ‘hidden trauma’ on a 121 basis since that time. But recently I’ve been getting various messages from people who have reached out with questions like “is there a way to work with you other than 121? or “is there a way to connect with others doing this work?” or “how can I go deeper with this content?”
Up to now I’ve had little answer other than recommending my books, podcast or youtube channel but of course this is a purely individual, passive approach ...I had never considered having a space for an online community to grow together.
Of course, it’s something I wanted. I had just never thought it would be possible to create..
But the more I have begun to learn about the potential of online work (yes for sure propelled by the covid pandemic), the more I began to dream..
I started to see a place I could create online where you could:
• Realise you’re not alone in your anxiety or fear
• Begin your journey to healing from trauma in a supportive environment
• Join together with others to create the life you’ve always dreamed of
I can’t stop thinking about how a community dedicated to healing trauma could massively impact the health and wellbeing of so many people and who knows where it could lead us in 1, 3 or even 5 years from now? THAT’S what’s keeping me buzzing.
It’s the progress people could make by working together with me in a group programme designed for that purpose – which as far as I know hasn’t been done yet.
Currently, this idea is very rough around the edges. It’s not created (yet) but the vision is there. And that’s why I’d love to extend an early invitation to you. I want you to be part of this… especially if you’re willing to help me shape this idea. Join me as a Founding Member and if you're willing let's see how we can make this THE best place to support healing and reclaiming people’s lives,
Join me today as a Founding member and your price will be £139 for the duration of the programme (that's 14 weeks: 7 training videos and 7 online group sessions - i.e. less than £10 per week to discuss and share). And THAT is a steal. The launch price will be £259 for the general public..
The goal is to officially launch this on 9th September 2021 but you can get involved now.
Join me. Become a Founding Member.
All you need to do is simply contact me on patriciaworby@gmail.com or via my website patriciaworby.com and I will let you know payment details (I'll be setting up a paypal and stripe button on my site shortly but for now its BACS payment)
Thank you. Here’s to your success and here’s to the success of our new community!
The same week the Film #Thewisdomoftrauma with @GaborMate is released it feels apt to discuss #Collectivetrauma since the covid pandemic. In this 35 min discussion colleague and fellow therapist Carol Greenwood and I discuss the effect of lockdowns and restrictions on essential contact for healthy human minds and bodies. Our longing for connection is subverted and instead replaced with the idea that we need to fear eachother. This has implications for society as a whole and leads to numbing behaviours that dissociate us from our own bodies and the planet we live on.
The climate crisis we are facing is thus ignored or simply pushed aside as we struggle with the signals of danger we are receiving from our bodies. We simply have no energy left to deal with the bigger picture, despite the looming crisis. But these things are not divorced from one another. Dissociated cultures do not take care of eachother or the planet. We are truly in a toxic culture as @DrGaborMate has said in his most recent book.
We discuss ways in which you can heal your self and those around you by meaningful, attuned connection which helps to heal the wounds of attachment failures triggered by the isolation we have had enforced. There is hope for a new, brighter tomorrow when we come to terms with the nature of our biology as social creatures.
Carol and I can be found individually on greenwood-therapies.com (welbeing coaching/ myofascial release) and alchemytherapies.co.uk (trauma therapy and massage) AND together as fatigue-free.me (multidisciplinary team approach to chronic fatigue and post-viral conditions).
In this 30 min audio Rebecca talks about her recovery from Chronic Fatigue and how this has informed her current work with her Lifejoy foundation.
I can be found individually on alchemytherapies.co.uk (anxiety, trauma therapy and massage) AND with my team as fatigue-free.me (multidisciplinary team approach to chronic fatigue and post-viral conditions).
In this short 10 min episode I talk about true health as being about more than the absence of disease. That a holistic view of health begins with enhancing our body's innate self-healing capacity and this must take into account our environment in the fullest sense. A bio-psycho-social view of the world looks at our relationships, meaning as well as our physiological health which communicates the state of our internal and external world to our brain via our gut (microbiome) and the autonomic nervous system. This system connects us to our world and relays information about how well we are working - it is the main connection between mind and body.
An imbalanced system will create many symptoms and cause us to feel anxious or conflicted in our lives. Medicine which looks only at healing the body and ignores this vital component often fails to alleviate the pain as it doesn't consider it. In my previous talk rhr15 with Cath Finegan we applied this model to Longhaul Covid and why this is poorly treated in conventional medicine.
The good news is that when this BPS model is applied to any chronic illness, recovery is achievable. The one difficulty can be in using our brains to try to 'figure out' i.e. analyse our way out of our difficulties. Since our brain is a pattern matching organ it can only use what it already knows and predicts. If this is the brain that got us where we are, we have to find a way to rewire that and the autonomic nervous system beyond our previous experience. Another stable (safe) nervous system can do this.
This is why I am working on offering a membership programme to people to study and learn this material to apply to their lives. Breaking out of the necessity of working with me 1-2-1 you will join a group of like-minded people in healing their lives. This programme which I have dubbed the Emotional AUDIT Programme is a 7 step programme that aims to introduce the concepts via written, audio and video material and then apply it to to your own life with the help and support of my group calls/FAQs. I'll be launching this in Autumn 2021 so keep your eyes and ears peeled!
The outline programme is here: https://www.facebook.com/PatriciaWorbyAlchemyTherapies/posts/2812598452198073
In this 20 minute conversation with Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist Cath Finegan, we talk about the suffering caused by Longhaul Covid. We cover the statistics, symptoms, similarities to CFS/ME and the need for a multi-faceted interconnected approach to recovery.
Many longterm illnesses have gut imbalance a their core. A shortage of niacin (Vitamin B3 - niacin or nicotinamide) is crucial for energy production and many people are low on this and other nutrients like Magnesium which feeds into the Krebs cycle (the energy production cycle of the body). When you supplement this, you are able to remedy the depletion which allows the body to self-heal.
But it is crucial to also address the emotional stresses that have contributed massively to the tipping over into illness. Much of the stress is unconscious: toxic stress as an unconscious conflict in the life. This tends to make people push themselves beyond their body's ability to maintain their nervous system in balance and is something they haven't addressed or resolved. Emotions are more than a feeling - they also communicate messages to the body of safety or threat.
Future focus has to be making a holistic (naturopathic) approach available to those with post-viral fatigue syndromes. This seeks to remove the blocks to healing rather than just suppress symptoms. A collaborative team approach also is vital as it works so much better - isolation is such a big component. Getting them out of the autonomic nervous system 'fight and flight' and into a state of flow or social engagement.
Replacing nutrients (the raw materials for energy production), getting the gut working properly, dealing with toxic stress (from previous traumatic experience) allows us to replace fear with hope (you're not going mad!). Modern trauma healing allows you to tackle past emotional experience without re-traumatising people. And then the body's immune system can begin to restore and anxiety begins to diminish.
Both Cath and I are Chrysalis Effect Practitioners who are trained in CFS/ME and now Post-viral fatigue recovery. If you wish to contact Cath please email on cath@naturopath.me.uk.
In this short 17 min review I look at how Peter Levine describes the body as the seat of trauma. The younger you are when this happens the more deeply this embeds along with shame. The viscerally stored messages of threat are why top down approaches (i.e talk therapy) are seldom successful in resolving trauma. This bottom up approach allows someone to connect with their body's messages without fear and just track the sensations and resolve them. Trauma is anything that overwhelms our nervous system. Shame also becomes embedded as the child believes they are the source of the problem and thus they are bad, or wrong. A pervasive sense of badness/wrongness (or even self-loathing).
These procedural memories of frozen responses can cause bodily symptoms of frozen shoulder and IBS. Even if the person is functional and manages to have a reasonable life of work, raising a family, it can be a 'cardboard existence' of disconnect with their body.
Learning to deal with these somatic imprints in a therapeutic environment can resolved longstanding issues that defy medical science. Thank you Peter for such a wonderful and useful book. This should be required reading for all medicine.
Health is far more than the absence of disease. It is a complex mind body interaction.
Michael and I discuss his personal health journey and how it took him to the creation of Rebel Health Tribe. His peeling of the 'layers of the onion' came about from his own suffering with anxiety and the auto-immune condition of his wife. In his search for answers he has created an online portal of amazing training and information.
His last investigation is in my own field of trauma and emotional healing and it is this we discuss in depth. The importance of the body in feeling safe and transforming your neurology is the last piece of his puzzle and what has led him to set up his new project inaura.com which will launch shortly to be a platform for mental, emotional and spiritual health seekers everywhere.
Michael can be contacted on rebelhealthtribe.com and inaura.com
I can be contacted on alchemytherapies.co.uk and patriciaworby.com
Although maybe not strictly about health, this new technology is revolutionising finance and creating independence and wellbeing for many people previously disenfranchised from conventional finance. I am teaching myself about crypto-currency, Decentralised finance (#DeFi) and #blockchain as I think it is about to revolutionise everything, much like the internet has. I explain what it is and how it works and why it's important. First in an ongoing series as I begin to invest in this newest currency and/or transactional system.
This is not a technical seminar - it is deliberately pitched to the newbie investor/ lay person. I even talk about my reservations: including the energy requirements to mine crypto and how I think the system needs to be improved. If you are nervous about finance, interested but fearful of this new system and the volatility (rising up and down as Bitcoin has in the last few months) then fear not! This video de-mystifies much of the terminology, machismo and general difference of this newest technology.
If you wish to explore the 'investment fund' I am involved in please use this introduction link. You need someone to refer you to buy in. Minimum 'investment' is $300 and no maximum. I have been receiving 50HU (their rewards tokens or 'dividends' roughly equivalent to $50 dollars) per day*!! This is really astonishing compared to a bank which offers less than 0.1% per year. On current passive investment with compounding (I rebuy at $50 per day) I am due to get my money back in 6-7 months (even sooner if you refer but you don't have to) and thereafter I will be in profit so I can withdraw my starter (seed) sum. And that is using purely passive means (i.e. you do nothing but let it sit there - there is an option to become a referral member and that increases your rewards).
*that's the nearest term I can come up with but intact it is a membership to a platform and you are rewarded with tokens (a form of cryptocurrency) which needs to be exchanged to a bank via a cryptocurrency exchange.
UPDATE I was sceptical but so far (6 weeks on I am now earning $65 per day and I've had to do NO reselling/referrals - this is purely passive income based on rebuys. You will need to have a referral to join however so use this introduction link.
I can be found individually on alchemytherapies.co.uk (trauma therapy and massage) AND together with my team as fatigue-free.me (multidisciplinary approach to chronic fatigue and post-viral conditions).
In this 30min discussion with ex-nurse and now holistic practitioner Carol Greenwood, we discuss the issues around the British National Health Service (NHS) being designed as an acute disease service designed for short stays and treatments which is increasingly maladapted to the current surge in chronic disease. Carol describes her experience of nursing and how her caring instincts were overwhelmed and thus eventually she had to leave the profession, as many nurses do (there is currently a 30% understaffing). We discuss the difficulties in nurse training and implementation of staffing ratios and what needs to shift for it to become truly a health service not a disease management service.
She now has found a way to use her skills in the holistic therapy setting. She is a myofascial release therapist of great skill and intuition who can be contacted on greenwood-therapies.com and with myself of alchemytherapies.co.uk we now work together under the umbrella group - the Greenwood Holistic Health Group .
In this book review of 'The Orchid and the Dandelion: why some people struggle and how all can thrive', I discuss the wonderful work of paediatrician and researcher W Thomas Boyce, who noticed some anomalies in the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) data that was not accounted for - individual variation in stress reactivity for some 20% of children. They made up the vast majority of children's admissions to hospital and in doctor's surgeries. And grew up to be the Highly Sensitive People (HSP's) of Elaine Aron's book of the same name.
His experiences of growing up in his own family with a sensitive sister who eventually succumbed to mental illness, has prompted him to explore how it is that some 'orchid' children are unusually sensitive to their environment and how that operates. He found that cortisol was raised to much smaller inputs or changes in these children and this affected their mental and physical health in profound ways. It changes blood sugar regulation, inflammation, immunity, hormonal regulation generally and breakdown of tissues (especially teeth!)
He also discusses how this works by epigenetic means and is heritable (i.e. higher stress response itself transfers down the generations despite what experiences that child has). He found an easy way to tell if a child was sensitive (not just by measuring their cortisol but by their right ear temperature which was higher than their left - presumably because their right pre-frontal cortex which is close to the inner ear are more active. This is opposite to most children.. and not something that most people know.
In the final chapter he offers us 6 ways in which to help sensitive orchid children thrive which include the importance of recognising difference, attunement and creative play.
This is an important and beautifully written book which compellingly details both his personal and professional view of interviewing and researching over 25 years of children's experiences of early life and how this then plays out in adulthood. It is a good update on the ACE studies although not linked to them in any formal way.
He has a great TED talk here which I would also highly recommend. I can be contacted on alchemytherapies.co.uk and now fatigue-free.me my collaborative venture with other therapists.
In this 40 min discussion Dr Viehweger explains the importance of heat shock or chaperone proteins in cellular protection - called the heat shock response (HSR). We see how these proteins protect three dimensional protein folding and therefore function when exposed to threat like viral infection or cancer for instance. In fact they were first discovered after cells were exposed to heat - hence the name - so are very important in instances of fever and other cellular threats. Proteins are the building blocks of life, being part of both the structure of membranes, organelles and even DNA transcription (reading) so without them our cells die pretty quickly.
Heat shock proteins are categorised by their molecular weight and there are very many of them. One of the most significant groups to be studied are the HSP70 group.
We have teamed up with other practitioners to form a virtual health group called Greenwood Holistic Health Group offering an integrated multidisciplinary approach to chronic fatigue and post-viral syndromes. (see fatigue-free.me - from March 2021)
We can be contacted on greenwoodholistic@gmail.com and individually at tybmas-health.co.uk (where the HSP drops can be ordered) and alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this book review of The Infection Game; it's an Arm's Race by Dr Sarah Myhill, I look at Dr Myhill's important thesis that microbial causes underlie many (if not all) chronic disease - something which you may not realise. This results from a reduction in natural immunity from our poor diet (high carb, nutrient depleted), intensive farming, lack of microbial diversity (from fermented foods, soil) and lack of quality sleep. There is also the fact of climate change forcing new and novel microbes to adapt to new environments and hosts. In the era of #covid this is highly relevant and prescient.
Solutions according to Dr Myhill are the #paleo-ketogenic (#PK - or high fat diet), and some supplements and herbs, better sleep, light and heat therapies and protecting ourselves from electromagnetic radiation which all help our immune system to fight infections.
Immunity is very energy hungry process and cannot function without the right raw materials (vitamins and minerals) which help to fuel our our energy delivery system (mitochondria, thyroid and adrenals). She likens this to a car with these as engine, accelerator, and gearbox respectively. She also talks about the importance of the #microbiome and #fermented foods.
Talking about energy delivery and how to enhance it with some specific supplementation and diet changes, she outlines her framework which she calls Groundhog Basic, Acute and Chronic.
In the Basic approach are:
· PK diet
· #Vitamin_C,
· Iodine (very useful for skin infections and prevention of #breastcancer and low thyroid - and easy to skin test to see how low you are)
· light and heat therapy
· sufficient exercise
· quality sleep (use blackout masks or curtains), switching off phones and electro-magnetic radiation during the night.
In the Acute approach where we become aware of an infection, then everything as above but adding in:
· #Vitamin_ D (as a mixture with K2 or Sunshine salt)
· fasting (avoiding constant snacking)
· improving energy delivery (glutathione, CoQ10)
· detoxing
· taking thyroid glandulars.
Finally for Chronic infections, the systems are so depleted/ rundown you have multiple infections you need to add:
· herbals (astragulus, cordyceps and rhodiola)
· D-ribose
· reviewing medications for side effects
· maybe some antibiotics after proper testing
All in all this is an important book with some slightly annoying stylistic quirks (little inserts of somewhat irrelevant and for me slightly annoying philosophical/historical asides) - very British approach e.g. 'gobs and guts' and mentions of Latin, school experiences and chess approaches! I love her for her honesty and integrity. The content is also accurate and relevant.
See Drmyhill.co.uk for her comprehensive (if slightly confusingly dense) website with more information and her other books.
I can be contacted on alchemytherapies.co.uk, patriciaworby.co.uk, greenwoodholistichealth (Fb) and www.rebelhealthradio.com
NB please note I am attempting to increase the quality of the recording by trialling different microphone systems with pop filters, stands or in this case a head-set microphone with noise cancelling inbuilt. Apologies if this isn't yet up to professional standards but
How I discovered another solution to my chronic fatigue through a more holistic model of health away from my roots in conventional medicine which ignores the toxicity, emotional history and epigenetics of that person. My introduction to this came about through my own suffering but my story is one of hope. If I can recover maybe you can too.
What makes true health and healing possible. Join myself and guest (and ex palliative care nurse) Carol Greenwood and I where we discuss this important topic.
In this 34 min video as part of my 'conversations' series, I talk to Kuljit Sehmi, a chronic pain and trauma release therapist who uses logosynthesis to help people resolve traumatic imprints that limit their lives and create physical symptoms.
In this wide-ranging discussion we talk about how implicit memory of overwhelming events (anything that occurred in a time of no safety) lies in the body. When triggered by events in the current life (like an infection or accident, bereavement, etc), they set in motion a range of physical symptoms which bewilder people and even the health service profession!
I asked her how she came to be doing what she does and it turns out racism and bullying were a part of her story. A former optometrist who had her own health journey through fibromyalgia, chronic arthritis and neuromas, she came to the end of the road with conventional medicine. The lack of hope that having no answers to chronic conditions engenders, when you find that the best that can be done is to manage the disease, is devastating.
Kuljit determined she was going to find answers and she began to look at the emotional stresses she was under as a young mum and growing up with huge pressures to be the 'strong one' and the hidden anger that she suppressed. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) of being from an Indian family growing up in England and subject to routine racism. The fear of those unpredictable experiences means your body never feels safe and then when you hear the message 'there is no cure' to having an illness, pain and dis-ease are often triggered as the way the body communicates with you. When you understand energy is the basis of the body (MRI's, etc rely on this), with emotions as an expression of different energy flows. And by changing the energetic imprint of past experiences by making the unconscious conscious and shining a light on it, you allow the body to restore itself.
Anxiety and fear as the backdrop to some childhoods (and in fact the trauma we are going through as a society now with covid) are very traumatic experiences. When our bodies are habituated to stress then we are not safe in the world which becomes our 'normal'. Illness can therefore be a very transformative experience but only when you are wiling to let go of your old identity and embrace a new authentic one.
Kuljit can be contacted on www.centrebalance.co.uk
Patricia can be contacted on https://patriciaworby.com and https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this 38 min conversation with naturopathic nutritionist Janie Perry we discuss the predispositions of disease and how to overcome and heal them.
Janie learn from her own experience of IBS and post viral fatigue that symptoms of chronic disease often start slowly in childhood and early adulthood, becoming more and more debilitating until a tipping point is reached whereby the body cannot repair anymore. conventional medicine then says treat the symptoms but this inevitably leads to more and more as the common drugs like antibiotics and steroids often create more gut dysbiosis (inbalance).
Natural medicine has a different approach.
We talk about:
- The root and branch model of human health
- the importance of terrain ('soil'' of the gut)
- toxic load and how to mitigate
- the links between CFS/ME and long covid
- how trauma or adverse childhood events predispose you to these conditions
Janie can be contacted at https://happybean.co.uk and myself at https://alchemytherapies.co.uk, https://patriciaworby.com and my podcast rebelhealthradio.com
In this short piece made for my youtube channel (and then banned!) I talk about how the current cv story completely misses the importance of innate immunity and how it is being systematically destroyed by our toxic environment. Find out how our gut is the basis of our health being the site of our first line defence (innate immune syttem) regulated by the community of microbes that live within us and on us.
Hear for yourself how this is all about modern man's destruction of the natural ecosystem both within and outside our bodies. I never intended to publish this one here so apologies the sound quality isn't as good as usual. I hope though that you feel the content was worth hearing and perhaps you can understand why content like this needs to be heard (and maybe consider for a moment why Youtube banned me when all I am doing is teaching people what they can do to keep healthy!). At no point do I discount the choice people must make about whether they have a jab or not.. this is not about that. It is about recognising the contribution YOU can make to your health and making an INFORMED choice which is just not available currently when this information is overtly and catastrophically censored.
Luckily, being in an alternative health community I am used to these attacks and distortions. Truth in the age of lies is a revolutionary act!
For the full story I allude to the research of Dr Zach Bush MD and his team here:
https://zachbushmd.com/what-happened-last-year-replay/
Be aware this is 3 hours long hence my quick summary... Enjoy
In this short 3 min introduction I talk about what my plans for my podcast Rebel Health Radio are and how it will be a platform for non-mainstream ideas about health and wellbeing
In this 16 min podcast I talk about how reading this book changed my understanding of our physiology and neural regulation - in other words how we feel about ourselves and the world is intimately linked to our nervous system's ability to feel safe. This so called 'neuroception' results from feedback from our internal organs (specifically our gut and heart) to our brain and is developed from our early experience as babies and young children. If we perceived safety from being cuddled and our needs reliably met, we were able to develop our top level autonomic (nervous )
- Social Engagement System -
We feel connected and able to take part in feeding (suckling), intimacy (cuddling) and then this develops to regulate our heart rate to be slow (bradycardia) and our emotional states to be safe and secure.
If that system is disrupted from developing properly (this can happen for many reasons: birth trauma, post-natal depression of the mother, marital discord, bereavement, etc), then we may learn that safety is not something we can reliably feel and we are left with the two lower systems of
- Sympathetic fight and flight (mobilisation and anxiety) or the
- Parasympathetic freeze state (immobilisation) of low energy and depression common in chronic fatigue states.
This book is ground-breaking but particularly impenetrable to read as it is full of scientific detail and the writing style is that of a collection of research papers. Perhaps that's why Stephen published the Pocket Guide to Polyvagal theory which I would recommend and Deb Dana also summarised it more neatly in her Polyvagal Theory in Therapy book
Please do get in touch via https://alchemytherapies.co.uk for more info or subscribe here.
In this 31 min conversation with fellow Coach and author Rebecca Williams Dinsdale we find out how despite having suffered CFS/ME for 20 years, and cared for her mother who had early onset dementia, she managed to find a way through gratitude for the 'joyous1/6th' i.e. the small parts of her life that were good. With help from the Chrysalis Effect and some emotional healing, she eventually got well enough to work as a Christian celebrant specialising in funerals. This brought her into contact with people at their most vulnerable, and yet managing to show love and compassion for those she worked with, she inspired so many with her speeches that she became determined to distil what she knew about love and healing into her Lifejoy book and programme.
Since lockdown forced funerals to stop, this has now blossomed into an online community of 300+ people of all walks of life, those with a faith and those without, who want to transform their lives via the Lifejoy movement. Here they celebrate gratitude, resilience and worthiness in all its various manifestations and connect with eachother in meaningful and positive ways. These are the elements that enable her healing and she talks honestly about how it is too easy to be glib about life experiences which have been difficult but which nevertheless we can recover from.
Rebecca can be contacted on https://drrebecca.org.uk where you can order her book, sign up for coaching or join her facebook group. Also available on amazon https://amzn.to/3vfxZs3
Catch me on alchemytherpies.co.uk, patriciaworby.com and rebelhealthradio.com
In this short 17 min review I look at how Peter Levine describes the body as the seat of trauma. The younger you are when this happens the more deeply this embeds along with shame. The viscerally stored messages of threat are why top down approaches (i.e talk therapy) are seldom successful in resolving trauma. This bottom up approach allows someone to connect with their body's messages without fear and just track the sensations and resolve them. Trauma is anything that overwhelms our nervous system. Shame also becomes embedded as the child believes they are the source of the problem and thus they are bad, or wrong. A pervasive sense of badness/wrongness (or even self-loathing).
These procedural memories of frozen responses can cause bodily symptoms of frozen shoulder and IBS. Even if the person is functional and manages to have a reasonable life of work, raising a family, it can be a 'cardboard existence' of disconnect with their body.
Learning to deal with these somatic imprints in a therapeutic environment can resolved longstanding issues that defy medical science. Thank you Peter for such a wonderful and useful book. This should be required reading for all medicine.
Michael and I discuss his personal health journey and how it took him to the creation of Rebel Health Tribe. HIs peeling of the 'layers of the onion' came about from his own suffering with anxiety and the auto-immune condition of his wife. In his search for answers he has created an online portal of amazing training and information. His last investigation is in my own field of trauma and emotional healing and it is this we discuss in depth. The importance of the body in feeling safe and transforming your neurology is the last piece of his puzzle and what has led him to set up his new project inaura.com which will launch shortly to be a platform for mental, emotional and spiritual health seekers everywhere.
p.s please note I asked to use Rebel Health (with permission from Michael) for my podcast - and so we are not indicating any alignment of our different projects.
Michael can be contacted on rebelhealthtribe.com and inaura.com (from April 2021)
I can be contacted on alchemytherapies.co.uk and patriciaworby.com
In this 30min discussion with ex-nurse and now holistic practitioner Carol Greenwood, we discuss the issues around the British National Health Service (NHS) being an acute disease service designed for short stays and treatments maladapted to the current surge in chronic disease. Carol describes her experience of nursing and how her caring instincts were overwhelmed and thus she had to leave the profession. We discuss the difficulties in nurse training and implementation of staffing ratios and what needs to shift for it to become truly a health service not a disease management service.
She now has found a way to use her skills in the holistic therapy setting. She is a myofascial release therapist of great skill and intuition who can be contacted on greenwood-therapies.com and with myself of alchemytherapies.co.uk we now work together under the umbrella group fatigue-free.me.
In this 40 min discussion Dr Viehweger explains the importance of heat shock or chaperone proteins in cellular protection - called the heat shock response (HSR). We see how these proteins protect three dimensional protein folding and therefore function when exposed to threat like viral infection or cancer for instance. In fact they were first discovered after cells were exposed to heat - hence the name - so are very important in instances of fever and other cellular threats. Proteins are the building blocks of life, being part of both the structure of membranes, organelles and even DNA transcription (reading) so without them our cells die pretty quickly.
Heat shock proteins are categorised by their molecular weight and there are very many of them. One of the most significant groups to be studied are the HSP70 group.
We have teamed up with other practitioners to form a virtual health group called Greenwood Holistic Health Group offering an integrated multidisciplinary approach to chronic fatigue and post-viral syndromes. (see fatigue-free.me - from March 2021)
We can be contacted on greenwoodholistic@gmail.com and individually at tybmas-health.co.uk (where the HSP drops can be ordered) and alchemytherapies.co.uk
In this book review of The Infection Game; it's an Arm's Race by Dr Sarah Myhill, I look at Dr Myhill's important thesis that microbial causes underlie many (if not all) chronic disease - something which you may not realise. This results from a reduction in natural immunity from our poor diet (high carb, nutrient depleted), intensive farming, lack of microbial diversity (from fermented foods, soil) and lack of quality sleep. There is also the fact of climate change forcing new and novel microbes to adapt to new environments and hosts. In the era of #covid this is highly relevant and prescient.
Solutions according to Dr Myhill are the #paleo-ketogenic (#PK - or high fat diet), and some supplements and herbs, better sleep, light and heat therapies and protecting ourselves from electromagnetic radiation which all help our immune system to fight infections.
Immunity is very energy hungry process and cannot function without the right raw materials (vitamins and minerals) which help to fuel our our energy delivery system (mitochondria, thyroid and adrenals). She likens this to a car with these as engine, accelerator, and gearbox respectively. She also talks about the importance of the #microbiome and #fermented foods.
Talking about energy delivery and how to enhance it with some specific supplementation and diet changes, she outlines her framework which she calls Groundhog Basic, Acute and Chronic.
In the Basic approach are:
- PK diet
-
Vitamin_C,
- Iodine (very useful for skin infections and prevention of #breastcancer and low thyroid - and easy to skin test to see how low you are)
- light and heat therapy
- sufficient exercise
- quality sleep (use blackout masks or curtains), switching off phones and electro-magnetic radiation during the night.
In the Acute approach where we become aware of an infection, then everything as above but adding in:
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Vitamin_ D (as a mixture with K2 or Sunshine salt)
- fasting (avoiding constant snacking)
- improving energy delivery (glutathione, CoQ10)
- detoxing
- taking thyroid glandulars.
Finally for Chronic infections, the systems are so depleted/ rundown you have multiple infections you need to add:
- herbals (astragulus, cordyceps and rhodiola)
- D-ribose
- reviewing medications for side effects
- maybe some antibiotics after proper testing
All in all this is an important book with some slightly annoying stylistic quirks (little inserts of somewhat irrelevant and for me slightly annoying philosophical/historical asides) - very British approach e.g. 'gobs and guts' and mentions of Latin, school experiences and chess approaches! I love her for her honesty and integrity. The content is also accurate and relevant.
See Drmyhill.co.uk for her comprehensive (if slightly confusingly dense) website with more information and her other books.
I can be contacted on alchemytherapies.co.uk, patriciaworby.co.uk, greenwoodholistichealth (Fb) and www.rebelhealthradio.com
NB please note I am attempting to increase the quality of the recording by trialling different microphone systems with pop filters, stands or in this case a head-set microphone with noise cancelling inbuilt. Apologies if this isn't yet up to professional standards but, as we say in therapy speak, 'I'm getting there!'
In this short podcast (25.27) I talk about my journey to healing, why I wrote my book The Scar that won't Heal, and what hidden trauma is and how it relates to chronic fatigue related conditions.
Events that occur with out support in childhood cause #chronicstress is the means by which the brain (specifically the limbic brain and brainstem) is hyper-sensitised the threat and the body begins to breakdown faster than it heals. This hypersensitivity leads to symptoms of allergies, auto-immune, gut issues and finally whole system breakdown. The body reads the mind via procedural memory and so if threat is unresolved it will programme the body towards illness or dis-ease like #CFS/ME.
In order to heal we have to re-programme these procedural memories via the body. Using various somatic techniques like #EmotionalFreedomTechnique (tapping) and EMDR to help people resolve these issues as over and thus no longer triggering the body.
I discuss #hiddentrauma' of family secrets, longterm chronic illness, shame or being different/wrong/bad in some way, being unsupported or love that is conditional on you being a certain way.
Please see my website rebelhealthradio.com for more podcasts and my therapy site alchemytherapies.co.uk for my free download 'Hidden trauma' and short snippet from The Scar that won't Heal. The full book is available on amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
In this discussion with wellbeing coach and mysfascial therapist Carol Greenwood we discuss the elements of what true healing means and how she came to that understanding through her own suffering of trauma and #CFS/ME. Although a true healing journey is never fully over, she has regained her health and now offers support and therapies to those recovering from such long-term chronic conditions via her own practice and that of the Greenwood Holistic Health Group, which we are delighted to be forming together with a multidisciplinary team of people which we believe is the best way to help people with chronic complex conditions such as #chronic fatigue and #long-covid.
Sit back and enjoy this joyful and spirited discussion with myself and Carol as we muse on what makes true health and healing.
And do contact me at Alchemy Therapies for more information on the subjects in this talk.