#57 - Trusting Your Body When You Have a Chronic Illness: Interview with My Friends Series - Shelby Hansen, Shelby Lives Vibrantly

Do you or someone you love live with a chronic illness or with chronic pain? Then you’re going to want to lean in and listen closely to Shelby Lives Vibrantly.

As a life coach, invisible illness warrior, and kidney transplant recipient, Shelby has navigated the waters of chronic fatigue and chronic pain for over two decades and can help you feel more energized and alive than ever before. Using a combination of nervous system regulation paired with mindset coaching, she helps moms who experience chronic conditions increase their energy, feel at peace with their diagnoses and body, and eliminate or decrease their physical symptoms without restrictive diets or costly supplements. She helps moms rewire their relationships with their bodies and their symptoms so that waking up can feel like the best part of their day again.

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What You’ll Learn on this Episode: 

• How to live vibrantly even when you’re managing chronic pain or chronic illness

• Where additional healing can be found and how to understand the emotional component to healing. 

• Insights of how chronic pain can be worked through with the nervous system, and what ‘pain reprocessing therapy’ is. 

• Why ‘acceptance’ isn’t the only approach to working with chronic pain.

• What to do with Anger when it shows up due to a difficult diagnosis.

• Tips for working through chronic pain in relationships with partners and how to better support each other. 

• How to face the fears of missing out when the body needs more rest than usual.

Mentioned on the show:

• Book, Unlearn Your Pain by Howard Shubiner; offers cutting edge scientific information on the mind body connection and a complete guided program for recovery from mind body syndromes.

• Book, The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon

• Website, Shelby K Hansen, the life coach for moms experiencing chronic fatigue and/or chronic pain, wanting to learn how to live vibrantly.

• Come check out the Dare Greatly Society.

• Stream more of Danielle’s music on Spotify find more original music as well as new releases shared on the podcast. 

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