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Anxiety – Homeo meds
Hi B and Daniel – I have anxiety specifically I get anxious with health . Have been having this for past 15-18 years. I had traumatic childhood losing my dad when I was 9 and difficult childhood altogether. I have been seeing psychotherapist for the past 2 years and it helps to some extent. I do yoga regularly and also try meditation . The last couple of years were stressful for us as we moved a few times and jumped jobs etc.. and we are still not settled.. but very close I believe..:)I would like to know if there is any other way I can support myself in healing my mind which will probably help in overall health as well. Thank you so much !!
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Hey ,
First of all, I’m sorry to hear your story! Although I don’t know the exact details of your story, early traumatic experiences can cause anxiety with health.
For example, the loss of a parent can make you aware of how vulnerable life is, which can lead to an exaggerated sense of vulnerability and fear of death or illness.
I don’t know if this is at play in your situation.
If traumas are at play Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) often is a great form of therapy that can help. But it does take time. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is another tool that can help you process your trauma and can be a great supplemental therapy. Did you try these forms of therapy?
Processing traumas is probably part of your healing journey. Finding meaning in what happened to you is part of this journey as well.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is also great when you want to reduce anxiety around your health. But you have to feel good and trust your therapist as well. The last part is a big success factor for making the therapy work.
Educating yourself about how the body works can also be a part of your journey. The school where I was taught functional medicine learned us that the body has so many healing systems. The body has great resilience. It doesn’t want to get sick or die.
Yes, we can get sick. But this often only happens when we haven’t supported our body in the right way for a while. Let me give you 2 examples:
• It takes about 10 years for diabetes to manifest. It is often an accumulation of lifestyle circumstances over these 10 years that causes diabetes.
• Calcification of arteries is also strongly influenced by lifestyle factors. Yet we often don’t see calcification happening above the age of 40 and often in combination with a life of bad lifestyle habits.What we teach here is how to support those healing systems. Knowledge about those systems can also help you reduce your anxiety. Have you tried for example following one of the courses here?
I hope these tips can help you.
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thank you so much for these. Yes you got it right . My dad died suddenly when I was 9 years old and he was 37 and during a difficult financial situation as well. Even though I kind of managed it all without realizing until 23 years, I started having anxiety around heart related ailments then and then every disease added in. I am of course doing much better as I can now quickly catch me feeling anxious. However, I need to learn to trust more and learn everything will fall in place and I will do just fine .. 🙂
My journey here is to exactly learn that my also learning how well my body can heal on its own and I don’t really have to worry too much about most of the things happening in my body..
Thank you for reminding me that how resilient our bodies are.
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I am not sure if my therapist is doing CBT based . But she has a background of transactional analysis and that’s what she used for therapy. I am Learning ti cope with my anxiety..:)
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Hey ,
If it is working, you have found a way! Unfortunately therapy does take time and it needs work as well.
EMDR can still be an important supplemental therapy. It can help you process trauma quite fast. It is a supplemental therapy, because it doesn’t address unhealthy learned thoughts and behaviours.
Learning to trust your body is a process as well. And as far as I can tell it did a great job bringing you here today!
If you have any further questions, just let us know!
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I also wanted to chime in here and add to Daniel’s great reply.
I would encourage you to watch the video on different healing modalities in the Adrenal Balance course for you to explore these therapies further. I share resources for finding practitioners globally.
And I share an additional modality (neurofeedback) in this healing modalities course inside the Mold Detox course.
Working on releasing your trapped emotions is truly going to be transformative for you, and I’m happy that you’re working on this.
The next step (or in conjunction) would be to work on gut health as there is a direct connection between gut and mental health. I have seen anxiety vanish when clients worked to improve their digestion and microbiome health. Would you say you have any digestive/gut related symptoms as well?
If so, we can guide you to some videos and resources to be working on in conjunction with emotional healing.
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