#3 My Journey to Healing from Chronic Fatigue

01/19/21 • 25 min

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.

*If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*
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#2True Health and Healing with guest Carol Greenwood

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.

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#4 Book Review 'The Infection Game' by Dr Sarah Myhill

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