Like Mind, Like Body

This app has changed my life in the last 4 months. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in September and while waiting for additional appointments with yet more tests, my doctor recommended the curable app and I found this podcast soon after. In the last year I went from being a very active professor of earth science to barely being able to walk for 15 minutes due to fatigue and pain and I could barely do my job because of the brain fog. The longer that I do the exercises the more convinced I am that it’s all related to my emotions. This app has also pretty much cured the migraines I’ve had all my adult life. I’ve only had 1 in 4 months and by doing the exercise I was able to calm myself down and it didn’t escalate to laying down nauseous in a dark room for hours and hours. Thank you so much. I’ve told everyone who will listen about this app and podcast.

My doctor recommend this. If I had found it on my own I probably wouldn’t have considered it.* But after 30+ years of debilitating physical symptoms, dozens of medications, lots of needles, tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses and hours/days spent in medical appointments and out of work I was ready for something else. This is easy and cheap compared to everything else I tried for my health and infinitely more helpful! I am largely pain free and when I’m not this helps me get out of pain *I am also a medical doctor in the “traditional” model at an academic institution. It has worked so well for me I refer my patients here.

The podcast and app were life-changing for me.

I listened to the episode with the host’s doctor. Who “cured her” and himself was “cured” with Saro’s approach. Host frequently bursts into giggles and laughs. Loves to talk about herself. The doctor seems more grounded but his story baffles: all this debilitating pain and when he decides it’s centered in his brain he takes his bike out and bicycles through the pain reminding himself its origin is in the brain and by the end of his cycling trip he’s much better and within a month cured. As for the host, no idea of her process. Listeners want to know from the guest their story but from a doctor specializing we should have multiple stories. Moreover there should be caveats. Sometimes there is actual organic damage and you shouldn’t just for example cycle through it for an hour. You can make it worse. Also, there are conditions that might be helped from repetitive negative thought patterns, but not completely addressed because there are underlying actual conditions that don’t have to do with the brain. I found this episode just sloppy and annoying. And the host repeatedly bursting into laughter. It doesn’t mean I’m not interested in the ideas themselves. I’ll try one more episode to see if this was a fluke.