Your Stories Episode 9 - Karen Isaacs Goldman - Dr Sarno & Nicole Sachs TMS Recovery Triumph 

Welcome to the ninth episode of Your Stories! A series of interviews with members of the chronic pain/TMS community where we chat and share stories of recovery from their symptoms, no matter what stage they may be at.
This week I interviewed the lovely Karen Isaacs-Goldman joining me from Long Island New York. Her story goes back decades, and through various different symptoms and obstacles along the way. But her learning and dedication won the race, once she tuned into her real voice, not her anxious racing mind. She taught herself to feel safe, and courageously started to change her life.
Here's a link to her episode page on my website: mytmsjourney.c...
Karen was a patient of Dr Sarno, which I found totally fascinating of course! Haha I felt like I was totally fan-girling over the Dr Sarno parts of our conversation!
Karen experienced hip pain, knee pain, TMJ, bad headaches that kept her bed-bound and avoiding fun opportunities in her life. We also discuss and bonded over our frustration over specific sounds, we both have a "disorder" called Misophonia, where certain sounds trigger emotional or physiological responses that some might perceive as unreasonable given the circumstance of them. Such as people chewing, rustling paper, clocks ticking etc.
We both have similar anxiety histories too, health anxiety, catasrophising, and overthinking tendencies. I find it fascinating how we are all so similar in this community. Her life mantra now is DONT FREAK OUT - which should be the universal strap-line for all TMS healing! :-)
Her journey since meeting and being treated by Dr Sarno eventually led her to the work of Nicole Sachs (who also worked with Dr Sarno in the Rusk Centre for Rehabilitation in New York), we talk about the amazing JournalSpeak work that helped heal my TMS also and how Nicole was the catalyst to both our recoveries. As was Dan Buglio's amazing daily TMS mindset coaching videos.
Here's some direct links to the content we discuss:
Dr John Sarno
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All the Rage Documentary about Dr Sarno
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Nicole Sachs LCSW
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JournalSpeak by Nicole Sachs LCSW
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Dan Bulgio
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Dan's Pain Free You Videos
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Self-soothing by Meditation
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Share Your Story:
If you'd like to submit your story for this series, please complete the form here: mytmsjourney.c... whether you're comfortable on camera or not, I would love to hear from you.
If you would like more details on how I became chronic pain free, check out my Recovery Journey Roadmap: mytmsjourney.c...
You also find out about my Yoga for TMS classes that we discussed in this episode and follow me on Facebook or Instagram for more resources and updates on everything chronic recovery.
My website: mytmsjourney.com
Yoga for TMS: mytmsjourney.c...
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