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In this video, Dr. Anna M L Smith, a UK family doctor and SIRPA practitioner, explains how the brain and nervous system can generate real physical symptoms, and shares the practical tools she uses with her own patients to help them recover.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:
👉 Polyvagal chart (to print out and put on your fridge): https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/
👉 Polyvagal flip chart (if you want it on your desk): https://amzn.to/4xVPZHY

🧠 SIRPA (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association): https://www.sirpa.org

👉 Insights from Medical Doctors Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNX_MIJ_pJAY-9MKjsvq5TrVILneZ9bM0

👉 A Doctor Recovered from Long Covid (Dr Paul Garner) - https://youtu.be/zvGkiIF9jAI

CONNECT WITH DR. ANNA SMITH:
📸 Follow Dr. Anna Smith on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthwellnessgp/
🌐 Her website: https://www.healthwellnessgp.co.uk

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TIME STAMPS:
00:00 🧠 Normal test results don't mean nothing's wrong
01:43 😔 Anna's own health collapse at 19
03:00 🔍 What is SIRPA?
04:07 💔 The question no doctor asked her
07:07 🩺 How patients respond
08:35 📈 Are doctors to this approach?
10:30 🧭 Where the recovery starts
12:33 📋 The nervous system chart check-in
16:02 😨 How to respond to symptoms
18:14 🚶 Safely expanding activity
21:44 🎒 Why emotional work matters for recovery
23:13 🧩 What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?
27:27 🌱 The most important thing
28:44 ✅ Building a daily practice
31:34 🌈 Can everyone recover?
32:31 📍 Where to find Dr. Anna Smith

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In this video, therapist Jean Itier shares how he spent years in chronic pain, telling himself he was fine; until he discovered what was actually missing.

🌐 Jean Itier's website: https://paintherapycoaching.co.uk 
▶️ Jean Itier's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chronicpaintherapist
🧘 Jean Itier's guided practice you can do while lying down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWXME2RtAU

🌟 Playlist: Health professionals insights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNX_MIJ_pJAbnyruhZZQlmBy8smx8DXgH

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TIME STAMPS:
00:00 👋 Meet Jean Itier
01:16 🔍 "I'm fine" story
03:06 🧠 Absolutely not "all in your head"
05:06 💡 The phantom limb example
06:12 ❓ "I get it. So why am I still sick?"
06:35 ⚠️ Trying hard implies threat
07:33 🚲 The bicycle analogy
09:26 😴 The sleep example
10:35 🔑 What safety feels like in your body
12:33 💗 Naming emotions vs feeling them
13:49 🎭 A master at masking emotions
15:20 🔎 How to find emotions you don't know you have
16:58 🚫 You don't need to dig for the "right" emotion
17:37 🔓 Permission to feel
18:23 🧱 Somatic tracking is too advanced for many
19:12 💭 Thoughts are suggestions, not truth
21:50 🔄 "How do I tell my brain I'm safe?" (the wrong question)
23:05 📓 Why journaling didn't work for Jean
25:17 🌊 Finding the way in through sadness
26:09 🙌 If a tool isn't working for you
27:20 ⏳ His best tool: Schedule your worry time
28:30 🏠 Your body is a place to live in (and not manage)
29:56 ✋ Let the body do the thinking
32:19 🔭 Selective attention training for recovery

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In this video, Alan Gordon, co-creator of pain reprocessing therapy, and author of The Way Out, explains why chronic fatigue and other symptoms respond to the same approach as chronic pain, why almost no one is truly the exception and guides a live somatic tracking session.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:
🏠 Alan Gordon's FREE Online Chronic Pain Recovery Course 👉 https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/painrecovery/

💗 Fiona's full recovery story: https://youtu.be/3GaC_q_kE0c

📕 Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression by Dr. Schubiner: https://amzn.to/4fdiE4V

🌟 My latest interview with Dr. Howard Schubiner: https://youtu.be/WydXRFyVFxs

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In this video, I share the five phases of neuroplastic recovery and how to tell which phase needs your attention right now.

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MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
📗 Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression - https://amzn.to/4fdiE4V

🌐 Mind Body Therapy & Coaching Center - https://www.mindbodytherapycenter.org/raelan

📘 Mind Your Body by Nicole Sachs - https://amzn.to/4cqthOj
📔 The Way Out by Alan Gordon - https://amzn.to/3SKZgB0
📖 Innercise by John Assaraf - https://amzn.to/4eyLETQ

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 🍽️ Too Many Recovery Tools, No Clear Plan
01:11 🗺️ The Five Phases of Recovery
01:35 🧠 Your Conscious vs. Subconscious Brain
03:28 🛟 Phase 1
04:54 📝 Build a Neuroplastic Evidence List
06:21 🔍 Signs Your Symptoms May Be Neuroplastic
07:19 🔄 Recovery Isn’t a Linear Journey
07:41 🌡️ Phase 2
09:16 👀 How Somatic Tracking Changes Your Response
10:18 🚶 Phase 3
11:56 🌬️ The “Take Six” Calming Exercise
12:30 🫁 Breathe In Calm, Breathe Out Fear
13:47 👟 Reintroduce Activity in Tiny Steps
15:25 ❤️ Phase 4
16:30 ✍️ Tools for Processing Difficult Emotions
17:24 🌱 Phase 5
18:41 🤝 Support for Every Recovery Phase
19:23 ✨ The Progress Happening Every Week

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REMINDER: This is for information purposes only and nothing I share should be considered medical advice. Please make your own assessment, do your own further research, and consult your trusted healthcare professionals before deciding if anything I talk about here might be right for you.

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📘 Breaking Free by Jan Rothney (Updated Edition) - https://amzn.to/4f0mbTE

In this video, Jan Rothney shares how she recovered from ME/CFS after being bedridden, relapsing, and being told by specialists that recovery was impossible. She explains how chronic symptoms can become stuck in brain-body loops, why safety, self-agency, emotional work, and supportive community matter, and how tiny “green shoots” can help rebuild confidence in recovery.

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
📺 My First Interview with Jan Rothney: https://youtu.be/CQgGNYwpmBM

CONNECT WITH JAN ROTHNEY:
🌐 Jan’s website: https://www.resettothrive.co.uk/
📺 Reset to Thrive YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNxzlu4Ek0RXP3n4wfzItw

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 💔 Told “You’ll Never Recover”
03:01 🚨 10 Years of Warning Signs
04:48 🔁 Recovering, Relapsing, and Learning the Hard Way
05:15 🥀 The Words That Destroyed Her
06:05 📘 Writing Breaking Free During Lockdown
07:21 🌱 How Reset to Thrive Grew
08:37 🧠 Acute Illness vs. Chronic Loops
09:55 🔄 The Negative Feedback Loop
11:09 🎯 Attention Bias to Threat
12:46 🚪 Why Going Outside Can Feel Unsafe
15:00 🧘 The First Step: Become Conscious
16:33 🪷 Learning to Sit With Symptoms
18:28 💪 Self-Agency Changes the Brain
21:27 🌿 Green Shoots of Recovery
23:46 🕺 Making Energy Feel Rewarding Again
25:30 💭 The Emotional Work Underneath Recovery
26:35 🫣 Shame, Fear, and Perfectionism
29:17 🔓 Resentment, Forgiveness, and Somatic Work
33:12 🤲 Why Supportive Community Matters

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