Mind Your Fibromyalgia Podcast

Episode 38 - The Pushing & Crashing Cycle
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Do you often feel that you are stuck in the pushing & crashing loop? Do you find yourself caught in a frustrating cycle, swinging between overactivity, and forced rest. When your symptoms are low, you push to get as much done as possible because you know you will crash soon enough; the overexertion triggers an increase in symptoms, leading to forced rest or a crash. Resting is usually successful in reducing symptoms and providing needed relief, but then, the pause in activities during this rest leads to feeling frustrated at all you didn't accomplish while resting; you plunge into another round of overactivity to catch up, leading to another crash.
Listen to this podcast episode to learn more about pushing & crashing cycle, why you may be doing it and how to get out of it.

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Episode 19 - What you need to know about sugar
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This episode continues education on self-management of fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions. Food and nutrition are an essential part of your well-being. Proper nutrition is also essential if you have autoimmune diseases, like lupus or RA, or other chronic disorders.
During the last episode, I mentioned the harmful effects of sugar on the nervous system and fibro symptoms. I get a lot of questions about sugar.
So this episode is dedicated to sugar. It is actually a module from my course on nutrition, Mindful Eating for Autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia (https://www.rheumcoach.com/mindfuleatingwaitlist). So instead of re-recording it for the podcast, I am sharing with you this entire module - audio as podcast and video with slides on YouTube. It is packed and covers information on sugar, its effects on the development of the disease of both adults and children, sugar addiction, and fatty liver disease. This episode will provide information for anyone, not just people with pain, so please share with your friends and loved ones. If you have any questions or comments, please email me; you can find my email in the show notes.
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Episode 16 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Catastrophizing pain and symptoms
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia and other chronic pain.
Today we are talking about catastrophizing thoughts, what they are, why you have them, how they affect pain and fibro, and how you can unlearn this way of thinking.

Catastrophizing is a cognitive distortion that prompts people to jump to the worst possible conclusion, usually with very limited information or objective reason to lose hope.

When a situation is upsetting but not necessarily catastrophic, they still feel like they are in the midst of a crisis.

Everyone has negative thoughts. But for some people, negative thinking can spin out of control and out of proportion to the reality of a situation. A relatively small error, disappointment, or source of embarrassment (or even the possibility of one), a lab result, a symptom, or a diagnosis - can sometimes become a cause for significant fear or distress— a catastrophe in one's mind.

Catastrophizing is a very common behavior in someone who has chronic pain.

Pain catastrophizing has been proven to worsen pain, increase disability, decrease functioning, and worsen mental health.
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You can see the full transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/10222422

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Episode 10 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - - Fibro Pain and Neuroplasticity
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.

Neuroplasticity is a general umbrella term that refers to the brain's ability to modify, change, and adapt in structure and function throughout life and response to experience. The brain cells and neurons can make the circuit and network changes resulting from learning a new ability, environmental influences, practice, physical and psychological stress.
Brain cells are "neurons that fire together, wire together." When your brain experiences pain over and over, the neurons responsible for dealing with pain are wired together. The more pain you have, the better these neurons, brain cells fire together. If we do something repeatedly, the brain develops a routine, a route for the neurons to do their job automatically or easier.
Your brain can unintentionally learn how to deal with pain incorrectly. The pain gets stuck, like a bad habit. This pain type, the learned pain, we call neuroplastic pain.
Neuro means brain, plastic means adapted, modified, developed. So neuroplastic pain is pain produced when the brain changes to reinforce this pain.
This episode explains that fibromyalgia pain is neuroplastic pain, how it develops, and why.

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Episode 29 - Fibromyalgia and Exercise: Interview with Lauren Eirk - part 3
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This episode continues education on self-management of fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions. Exercise and physical activity are an important part of your well-being.

In this episode, we continue talking about physical activity and exercise as it relates to chronic pain and fibro. We talk about pushing and crashing and how to get back on your exercise wagon if you have "fallen" off your exercise plan and want to quit. How perfection is not the goal, but moving is. Why failure is important. And how to find a fitness program that will work for you.
My guest is Lauren Eirk. She the owner of Fitness Integrated Science, a personal training studio in Louisville, KY, offering Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT), Yoga Therapy, Pilates, and Personal Training services.
Lauren holds a bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy and a Master's degree in Health
Fitness Management. She is a registered Yoga Instructor, a Certified Yoga Therapist
with the International Association of Yoga Therapy, a continuing education provider for
Yoga Alliance, and the developer of the Yoga Integrated Science; Teacher Training
Program. Lauren is also a MAT-Rx Certified Full-Body Specialist and Master Level
MAT Specialist.
She has spent her life teaching and studying in the health, fitness, and yoga
communities. Lauren’s work has been featured in such magazines as Yoga Journal, Self, IDEA Fitness Journal, American Fitness Magazine, and many others. Lauren has presented
for many national health and fitness organizations. She is truly, not only a fitness
enthusiast but an expert, and we are all going to learn so much from our discussion.
Lauren’s training has made her highly sensitive to clients with complex, on-going neuro-muscular issues, helping her clients to navigate an effective exercise plan to accomplish their goals. This led her to become the co-owner and developer of Fitness Integrated Science TV - an on-demand education and Coaching Service that you can stream to your computer, TV, phone, or tablet. https://www.fitnessintegratedscience.tv/She created this service to help people deal with chronic pain,
injury, weight gain, loss of mobility or strength, fatigue and bone loss disorders.
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YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHmh3SkdrrBhS--I6_8IJAQ - a few example videos from the course and other content.
Please email me at [email protected] if you try it or if you have questions. I would love to hear from you.

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www.rheumcoach.com/FibroCard - Download your FREE copy of the "Fibromyalgia is real" postcard to share with your family & friends

www.FaceBook/com/rheumcoach - lots more information about fibro
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Disclaimer: This podcast provides information only and does not provide any medical or psychological services or advice. None of the content on this podcast prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition.</