Keto Crossover episode with the Keto Life Support podcast. 

Join Daisy and Kim for a chat with their Keto Crew as they look back and reflect on their 2020.

Who is in the crew? Louise Reynolds, Matt Murray, Jon Slaughter and Terri Lance.

Cohost – Kim Howerton

Kim Howerton struggled with her relationship with food from the time she was 8. As the years went by and her health problems mounted, she felt at the mercy of her body and out of control with her weight. A dedicated seeker of pleasure, she realised that life in a body that was always in pain was no way to live; that a pleasurable life starts by living in a body that feels good.

Enter Keto – a life that has brought together her love of satisfying, delicious foods in a way that makes her actually feel good. She now shares her love of all things Keto by creating recipes, running a Facebook group and her podcast Keto Life Support.

Kim’s website is TheKetonist.com

Kim’s cookbooks

Kim’s Chocolate Eclairs 

Other episodes Kim has been in:

Kim’s original episode 

Kim Howerton

The Starting Keto episodes with Carrie Brown

Starting Keto – Part 1

Starting Keto – Part 2

Holiday Crossover with Terri Lance

#130: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic

#131: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Part 2

Terri

Terri has been keto for over 3 years and Paleo for 2 before that. She struggled with being overweight or obese from age of 7 until about 5 years ago and tried all types of weight loss plans and diets throughout most of her adult life.

Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in her early 30s, Terri was prescribed many medications, typically taking three for diabetes, a statin and an ace inhibitor. She no longer takes any prescriptions and no longer has any biomarkers of Type 2 diabetes.

Terri was a middle school English teacher at the start of her career; then went back to grad school and earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology. She was then a psychologist in private practice for over thirteen years.

Terri is now a coach with IDM’s The Fasting Method. She is the Director of Retreat Development and has hosted two fasting retreats in Hawaii.

IDM’s new website TheFastingMethod.com

You can contact Terri email

Other episodes Terri has been in:

#105: Terri Lance – Reversing Type 2 Diabetes With Diet and Fasting

#106: Terri Lance – Reversing Type 2 Diabetes With Diet and Fasting – Part 2 

Holiday Crossover with Kim Howerton

Louise Reynolds

Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons.

In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses.  During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’  living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher.  Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.

Other episodes Louise has been in:

#001: Louise Reynolds 

#104: Louise Reynolds talks Keto Travelling 

#032: PHC Conference 2018 

#083: PHC Conference 2019 

#130: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic

#131: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Part 2

Matt Murray

Matt is 48 and lives in Delaware, which on the East Coast of the US.  He has been married for 20 years and has 3 teenage daughters, a dog and a cat. 

Matt started keto four years ago after being diagnosed with T2 Diabetes and metabolic syndrome.  Through diet and other lifestyle changes Matt was able to return his health and weight to normal.  Matt recently started a skin care company called Nature’s JAM with his friend Jon Slaughter that makes all natural, small batch skin care products.

Jon Slaughter

Jon Slaughter lives in a town on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States near the Chesapeake Bay.

Jon stumbled upon the paleo diet while looking online for a recipe for a party.  After following a paleo diet for over a year, he learned about the ketogenic way of eating from a friend who had been diagnosed with T2 diabetes.  A proponent of natural remedies, Jon’s philosophy is “Do what you can first” instead of immediately going down the path of pharmaceuticals.

Jon loves to cook and create delicious recipes that are simple.  He has shared his keto experience and recipes with family, friends, and anyone else who wants more information.  He likes creating simple recipes that anyone can make because he believes living a ketogenic lifestyle will make for a happier planet one person at a time.

Jon’s other hobbies include hiking, kayaking, and homesteading.  He keeps a brood of hens as a source for fresh eggs, landscapes with edible and medicinal plants, makes medicinal tinctures and herbal tea blends, and makes his own personal care products such as face cream and hand salve.  

Jon partnered with his best friend, Matt, to turn his hobby of making natural skin care products into a business.  Together they launched nature’s JAM^TM making handmade, all natural skin care products in small batches.  “When someone uses one of our products, I not only want them to love how it makes their skin look and feel, I want the aroma to lift the person up and make them feel good.”  

Other episodes Matt and Jon have been in:

#130: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic

#131: Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Part 2

#133: Matt Murray & Jon Slaughter – Keto Cooking 

#134: Matt Murray & Jon Slaughter – Nature’s JAM 

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Chef Taffy, chats about Christmas culinary traditions in this special throwback episode to the early days.

Taffy Elrod is a professional chef, cooking instructor, recipe developer, food writer and former restaurant owner, with over 20 years’ experience in the food industry. 

Born into a family of artists and cooks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she learned early on that food was a powerful medium for creation and change. She is passionate about empowering others to cook and enjoy the food that matters most to them.

Taffy resides in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she cooks and develops recipes with her husband Pizza Man and their rescue cat Kit-Kat.

Taffy’s Yorkshire Pudding:

Preheat oven to 425F (220C)

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons melted fat or butter
• 1/2 cup unflavoured whey protein powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
• Additional 1/2 cup hot fat – preferable beef drippings
• Mix wet ingredients then stir in dry ingredients or mix briefly in blender.

Heat beef fat in a pan or muffin tins in preheated oven.

Add batter and bake at 425F (220C) until puffed and brown.

You can replace the whey powder with egg white powder but use a little less – 1/4 to 1/3 cup.

Links

Taffy’s Website

Follow Taffy on Social Media:

Instagram

Facebook

Pinterest

Previous Episodes:

#003: Chef Taffiny Elrod – Fusing Traditional, Classical and Keto Ways of Eating

#016: Chef Taffiny Elrod – Tasty Valentine Treats

#023: Chef Taffiny Elrod – Chips ‘n’ Dips

#072: Chef Taffy Talks Fat!

Taffy’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Richard, is back for the second part of our rambly chat about Covid-19, vaccines, Bets and a general catch-up.

You can listen to the first part here:

#163: Richard Morris – Catch-Up and Covid-19

Richard is a 55 year old software developer and technical speaker who built financial systems to expose risk on Wall Street and has worked on systems from industrial robots to payroll. At 38, he was the public-facing chief executive of a major software component company when he discovered he had type 2 diabetes. At 40 he retired, to devote his time into learning about type 2 diabetes and reversed his own with the ketogenic diet 7 years ago.

With Carl Franklin he founded the 2 Keto Dudes podcast (over 250,000 monthly downloads), and the international Ketofest event to help popularize the intervention as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. 

At age 52 Richard went back to school to study Biochemistry.  He graduated in 2020 and is now working as a student researcher in a computational Chemistry lab working towards a PhD.

Links

Previous episodes:

#65: Richard Morris 

#65: Transcript 

#91: Richard Morris Talks Calories! 

#91: Transcript 

#22: Richard Morris & Carl Franklin (aka the 2 Keto Dudes) 

Follow Richard on Social Media:

Richard’s blog easylocarb.com

Twitter @khiron

Instagram @easylocarb

How mRNA Vaccines Work | A Doctor Explains | ZDoggMD

Richard’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Richard, returns to the podcast for a rambly chat about Covid-19, vaccines, Bets and a general catch-up. This is the first of a two-parter.

Richard is a 55 year old software developer and technical speaker who built financial systems to expose risk on Wall Street and has worked on systems from industrial robots to payroll. At 38, he was the public-facing chief executive of a major software component company when he discovered he had type 2 diabetes. At 40 he retired, to devote his time into learning about type 2 diabetes and reversed his own with the ketogenic diet 7 years ago.

With Carl Franklin he founded the 2 Keto Dudes podcast (over 250,000 monthly downloads), and the international Ketofest event to help popularize the intervention as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. 

At age 52 Richard went back to school to study Biochemistry.  He graduated in 2020 and is now working as a student researcher in a computational Chemistry lab working towards a PhD.

Links

Previous episodes:

#65: Richard Morris 

#65: Transcript 

#91: Richard Morris Talks Calories! 

#91: Transcript 

#22: Richard Morris & Carl Franklin (aka the 2 Keto Dudes) 

Follow Richard on Social Media:

Richard’s blog easylocarb.com

Twitter @khiron

Instagram @easylocarb

How mRNA Vaccines Work | A Doctor Explains | ZDoggMD

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Nikola, talks about how she low carbs in the UK – both for her own health and to help others optimise theirs.

Nikola is an award winning coach, author, speaker, human physiology mentor, educator, woman in technology, orchid obsessive, and has been low carb since 1999. She is on a mission to free people from Diet Prison, remove the linguistically horrific words “weight loss” from common usage and her 2020 mission statement is “Assist the UK to eat itself healthy.”

Nikola also wants to disrupt the diet industry paradigm and move us away from guilt and shame when it comes to food and our bodies. She is one of the only people working within the diet industry to work on the mental/mindset side of body composition management, to break people away from “victim mentality” and so ensure long term success.

Nikola began her low carb life on the 6^th of December 1999. The lifestyle suited her body a great deal, however she very soon discovered that there was a dearth of UK centric information and that most of the information coming from the US actively contradicted the UK’s food context and labelling laws.

Because of this, Nikola set up the Low Carb in the UK Website (https://lowcarbinthe.uk) in August 2000 as well as a Yahoo! Mailing list to help people connect with UK centric Low Carb information. 

Nikola has over 20 years’ experience in assisting UK mums struggling with “pregnancy belly” and the “middle ages middle” to gain more energy than a toddler, a slender optimal body, and far more importantly, much better health and a renewed sense of confidence and self-love.

Nikola went all in with a coaching career via Low Carb in the UK in October 2019, having worked on the business part time since 2016. Via her innovative H.O.P.E Protocol, she has assisted thousands of people with their body composition goals via her website, books, courses, and 1:1 client work.

Nikola has written three books based around living a low carb life, written using UK information and from a UK angle. They are well received by her audience, and she is planning a 4^th book in 2021 “How to tame type 2 diabetes”

Nikola was awarded “Best Nutritional Coach & Mentor 2019 – London” in the 4^th Annual GHP Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards 2019 and “Most Inspirational Nutritional Coach & Mentor (London): Nikola Howard” in in the 5^th Annual GHP Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards 2020.

Nikola was awarded “Best Women’s Weight Loss Coach – South East England” in the 3^rd annual GHP Fitness and Nutrition Awards 2020

Before going all in, Nikola studied Physics and Chemistry at University and then worked in IT roles for both public and private sector clients, starting as a desktop support person in 1989, and rounding out her IT career as a Data Centre Manager before she left to work on Low Carb in the UK full time. She managed people and projects as well as stakeholders for over 30 years. This means that she brings forward that logical and structured approach into her client work.

Links

Website

Books

Course

Free 30 minute consultation link for 1:1 packages

Network Support Group

Follow Nikola on Social Media:

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest

Instagram 

Nikola’s Top Tip

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Keto Crossover episode with the Fabulously Keto podcast.

Join me, Jackie and Louise for the second part of our Ketoverse Crossover episode. 

Listen to the first episode here:

#160: Keto Crossover With Fabulously Keto Podcast

Fabulously Keto is a weekly podcast cohosted by Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds.

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They interview a range of guests using real food, low carb, keto and carnivore ways of eating. They also feature a quarterly AMA – Ask Me Anything episode – where they answer your low carb and keto questions.

Jackie lives in the UK with her husband and twin boys. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, she has discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. In 2019 she decided to make low carb and keto part of her vision to help others on their journey to health and weight loss. Jackie has a certificate in the ketogenic diet, is a nutrition advisor and is a trainee Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She is also an ambassador for the charity PHCUK.org (Public Health Collaboration) dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health.

Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses.  During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’  living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher.  Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.  

Links

Fabulously Keto Social Media

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook Group

Previous Keto Woman episodes

#084: Jackie Fletcher 

#001: Louise Reynolds 

#104: Louise Reynolds talks Keto Travelling 

#032: PHC Conference 2018 

#083: PHC Conference 2019 

#130: Keto Crossover with Keto Life Support Podcast 

#131: Keto Crossover with KLS podcast – Part 2 

Jackie’s Top Tip

Louise’s Top Tip

Daisy’s Top Tip

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Join me, Jackie and Louise for a Ketoverse Crossover episode. They asked me to appear as a guest on their podcast – Fabulously Keto – so it is a fair bit about me but also a chat about a few things, including how to deal with things you find addictive. This is the first of two parts.

Fabulously Keto is a weekly podcast cohosted by Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds.

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They interview a range of guests using real food, low carb, keto and carnivore ways of eating. They also feature a quarterly AMA – Ask Me Anything episode – where they answer your low carb and keto questions.

Jackie lives in the UK with her husband and twin boys. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, she has discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. In 2019 she decided to make low carb and keto part of her vision to help others on their journey to health and weight loss. Jackie has a certificate in the ketogenic diet, is a nutrition advisor and is a trainee Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She is also an ambassador for the charity PHCUK.org (Public Health Collaboration) dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health.

Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses.  During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’  living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher.  Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.  

Links

Fabulously Keto Social Media

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook Group

Previous Keto Woman episodes

#084: Jackie Fletcher 

#001: Louise Reynolds 

#104: Louise Reynolds talks Keto Travelling 

#032: PHC Conference 2018 

#083: PHC Conference 2019 

#130: Keto Crossover with Keto Life Support Podcast 

#131: Keto Crossover with KLS podcast – Part 2 

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Melina, talks about her journey to becoming a naturopathic doctor and how she uses keto as one of the tools in her toolkit to help optimise her own heath as well as that of her patients.

Dr. Melina Roberts is a Naturopathic Doctor, Author of Building a Healthy Child and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary.

She is recognized as one of the top Biological Medicine practitioners in North America. She is a leading authority in the field of naturopathic medicine specializing in Biological Medicine effectively treating digestive issues, chronic disease and cancer. Dr. Roberts is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. She did a 2 year post-graduate study in Biological Medicine with Parcelsus Klinik in Switzerland. She has been selected to be TEDx speaker for 2021. 

Links

Melina’s website AdvancedNaturopathic.com

Melina’s book Building A Healthy Child

Follow Melina on Social Media:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

YouTube

Melina’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Kelly, is back for the second part of her story about how she overcame her long struggle with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Catch up with the first part of Kelly’s story here:

#157: Kelly Canueto – Overcoming Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Kelly is a 49 year old Brit living in Marbella, Spain.  

She began suffering with chronic pain after a whiplash injury which never seemed to heal. After years of neck and back pain she later went on to develop Fibromyalgia, a condition that caused severe widespread pain and extreme fatigue never alleviated by rest.

For Kelly’s story of recovery please see below the Links.

Links

Books:

Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno

Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery by Georgie Oldfield

The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich 

Videos: 

Dr. John E Sarno – 20/20 Segment

Dr. John E Sarno – 20/20 Segment

Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

Podcasts:

The Cure For Chronic Pain

Like Mind, Like Body 

Tell Me About Your Pain 

The Mind & Fitness Podcast 

Other resources: 

CureableHealth.com

TMSwiki.org

Mickel Therapy Moray Facebook Group

If you want to get in touch with Kelly directly:

painfreekelly@gmail.com

Recovery Stories

Kelly’s Story

Fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue – How I recovered after almost 20 years!

I tried yoga, tai chi, meditation, osteopaths, chiropractors, massage, physiotherapy, orthotics, accupuncture, antidepressants, Alexander Technique, EFT, eating vegan, eating paleo, numerous supplements and probably a quite a few more things I’ve forgotten to mention. Relief was only ever temporary and paying too much attention to whether certain foods were the cause of my pain just added to the stress of being ill. 

I managed the condition to begin with but ended up pretty much housebound for about 5 years. 

I was so desperate to recover but felt very guilty spending more money on my recovery, on me! I got to such a rock bottom one day that I just had to say fuck it because I couldn’t go on being that ill any longer. I researched the top ways people recover and discovered Mikel Therapy & The Gupta Programme. 

At the same time some people on a Fibro/CFS recovery group mentioned a book called Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno that had been a part of their recovery. I’m so glad I saw that thread and ordered the book. It gave me back my life! 

The book is really about chronic pain that occurs anywhere in the body. Dr Sarno explains that Fibromyalgia is a severe form of a muscle tension syndrome called TMS. Read any book by Dr John Sarno but Healing Back Pain is the most concise and available as an audiobook on Amazon, only 3hrs long. 

Check out this video clip too…

Also read…

Unlearn Your Pain by Dr Howard Schubiner 

Chronic Pain – The Key to Recovery by Georgie Oldfield 

The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich 

Mickeltherapy.com

A short book to read with a really clear explanation of what’s happening in your body. Followed up with around 8 therapy session by phone. Saying what I was really feeling instead of what people wanted to hear, and not putting everyone else’s needs first, were things I needed to learn how to do. I highly recommend this. Working with a female therapist is better in my opinion. 

Guptaprogramme.com

A DVD course with a really clear explanation of what’s happening in your body. It affirmed what the Mikel Therapy book said. The physical symptoms cause anxiety and the anxiety over the physical symptoms causes the physical symptoms! You just get trapped in a cycle. It made such sense and explained why nothing I’d tried previously had worked. Once you become certain that this is what’s really going in your body you start to react with indifference to the symptoms, this begins breaking the symptom/anxiety cycle. The pain starts to fall away and you get better. 

The Gupta DVDs also include NLP exercises to help break the pattern. I found them a little complicated compared to Dr Sarno’s method which is much simpler. He says you must react with complete indifference to any symptoms. This isn’t just “ignore the symptoms and they’ll go away”. This only works when you have read the information from several sources and truly understand and believe that the source of your pain is not physical but psychological. It’s like false alarms are being set off in your body, you just need to learn how to switch them off rather than react to them. 

The books about TMS and Mikel Therapy were essential for me. The Gupta DVDs were a great reinforcement but perhaps not essential, although the DVDs contain many inspiring recovery stories that gave me hope and belief when I really needed it. 

The TMS Wikipedia site tmswiki.org is a really helpful resource. The Pain Psychology Centre in LA have a great free recovery guide on there. 

There’s also a new free recovery course you can get as an app that is based on Dr Sarno’s work called Curable at curablehealth.com

I recently did an online course called The Linden Method. I’d suffered with Anxiety issues for many years. This also helped me reach full recovery. 

Before I became ill I was never a sporty person in fact quite the opposite but since recovering I have a new found love and appreciation for being able to move my body freely without pain. I started cycling because it was fun, then I started Zumba. I only danced to two songs in the first class but gradually built confidence in my body’s capability. Now I go twice a week, go cycling every Sunday and have just started the couch to 5k running plan.

There are not enough days in the week for all the fun stuff I want to do. I also stated a small jewelry making business as a hobby and can finally apply myself to learning Spanish now that the brain fog and fatigue have lifted too. I am so happy and grateful that my life is now fun again. 

I hope this info gives you an insight as to what worked for me and the hope that you too will recover. 

Best wishes 

Kelly xxx

Kelly’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Kelly, talks about how she overcame her long struggle with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Kelly is a 49 year old Brit living in Marbella, Spain.  

She began suffering with chronic pain after a whiplash injury which never seemed to heal. After years of neck and back pain she later went on to develop Fibromyalgia, a condition that caused severe widespread pain and extreme fatigue never alleviated by rest.

For Kelly’s story of recovery please see below the Links.

Links

Books:

Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno

Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery by Georgie Oldfield

The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich 

Videos: 

Dr. John E Sarno – 20/20 Segment

Dr. John E Sarno – 20/20 Segment

Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google

Podcasts:

The Cure For Chronic Pain

Like Mind, Like Body 

Tell Me About Your Pain 

The Mind & Fitness Podcast 

Other resources: 

CureableHealth.com

TMSwiki.org

Mickel Therapy Moray Facebook Group

If you want to get in touch with Kelly directly:

painfreekelly@gmail.com

Recovery Stories

Kelly’s Story

Fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue – How I recovered after almost 20 years!

I tried yoga, tai chi, meditation, osteopaths, chiropractors, massage, physiotherapy, orthotics, accupuncture, antidepressants, Alexander Technique, EFT, eating vegan, eating paleo, numerous supplements and probably a quite a few more things I’ve forgotten to mention. Relief was only ever temporary and paying too much attention to whether certain foods were the cause of my pain just added to the stress of being ill. 

I managed the condition to begin with but ended up pretty much housebound for about 5 years. 

I was so desperate to recover but felt very guilty spending more money on my recovery, on me! I got to such a rock bottom one day that I just had to say fuck it because I couldn’t go on being that ill any longer. I researched the top ways people recover and discovered Mikel Therapy & The Gupta Programme. 

At the same time some people on a Fibro/CFS recovery group mentioned a book called Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno that had been a part of their recovery. I’m so glad I saw that thread and ordered the book. It gave me back my life! 

The book is really about chronic pain that occurs anywhere in the body. Dr Sarno explains that Fibromyalgia is a severe form of a muscle tension syndrome called TMS. Read any book by Dr John Sarno but Healing Back Pain is the most concise and available as an audiobook on Amazon, only 3hrs long. 

Check out this video clip too…

Also read…

Unlearn Your Pain by Dr Howard Schubiner 

Chronic Pain – The Key to Recovery by Georgie Oldfield 

The Great Pain Deception by Steve Ozanich 

Mickeltherapy.com

A short book to read with a really clear explanation of what’s happening in your body. Followed up with around 8 therapy session by phone. Saying what I was really feeling instead of what people wanted to hear, and not putting everyone else’s needs first, were things I needed to learn how to do. I highly recommend this. Working with a female therapist is better in my opinion. 

Guptaprogramme.com

A DVD course with a really clear explanation of what’s happening in your body. It affirmed what the Mikel Therapy book said. The physical symptoms cause anxiety and the anxiety over the physical symptoms causes the physical symptoms! You just get trapped in a cycle. It made such sense and explained why nothing I’d tried previously had worked. Once you become certain that this is what’s really going in your body you start to react with indifference to the symptoms, this begins breaking the symptom/anxiety cycle. The pain starts to fall away and you get better. 

The Gupta DVDs also include NLP exercises to help break the pattern. I found them a little complicated compared to Dr Sarno’s method which is much simpler. He says you must react with complete indifference to any symptoms. This isn’t just “ignore the symptoms and they’ll go away”. This only works when you have read the information from several sources and truly understand and believe that the source of your pain is not physical but psychological. It’s like false alarms are being set off in your body, you just need to learn how to switch them off rather than react to them. 

The books about TMS and Mikel Therapy were essential for me. The Gupta DVDs were a great reinforcement but perhaps not essential, although the DVDs contain many inspiring recovery stories that gave me hope and belief when I really needed it. 

The TMS Wikipedia site tmswiki.org is a really helpful resource. The Pain Psychology Centre in LA have a great free recovery guide on there. 

There’s also a new free recovery course you can get as an app that is based on Dr Sarno’s work called Curable at curablehealth.com

I recently did an online course called The Linden Method. I’d suffered with Anxiety issues for many years. This also helped me reach full recovery. 

Before I became ill I was never a sporty person in fact quite the opposite but since recovering I have a new found love and appreciation for being able to move my body freely without pain. I started cycling because it was fun, then I started Zumba. I only danced to two songs in the first class but gradually built confidence in my body’s capability. Now I go twice a week, go cycling every Sunday and have just started the couch to 5k running plan.

There are not enough days in the week for all the fun stuff I want to do. I also stated a small jewelry making business as a hobby and can finally apply myself to learning Spanish now that the brain fog and fatigue have lifted too. I am so happy and grateful that my life is now fun again. 

I hope this info gives you an insight as to what worked for me and the hope that you too will recover. 

Best wishes 

Kelly xxx

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