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Join me for episode 76 where we hear from my client, Nicki, about her experiences with the MAP Method over a couple of months, and how MAP has helped her to overcome her anxiety, patterns of overthinking and worry, and the racing thoughts that kept her up at night.

Hear how she was referred by her functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Eric Balcavage, and how MAP sessions compare to talk therapy, EMDR, and other neural retraining and vagal toning programs she has tried.

In this episode we discuss:
- How working with functional medicine protocols helped her symptoms, but took a toll on her mentally.
- How her health fell apart after getting COVID in 2020 and how she felt stuck in fight or flight.
- What she was hoping to address in MAP sessions: anxiety, fight/flight, sleep, and an autoimmune thyroid condition.
- The benefits she has noticed since the first session: reduction in negative thought loops and anxiety, no more anxiety “burst” feeling in her chest, more mental space, improved sleep.
- How MAP has helped her health anxiety and her anxiety around her son and his health.
- How MAP can help to resolve the effects of childhood trauma, even if you’ve done a lot of therapy already.
- How the MAP Method helped Nicki to achieve clarity around important decisions and feel more at peace with our options.
- How long-standing behavior patterns, like nail biting, can change with MAP sessions.
- Why MAP is easier and gentler than EMDR or talk therapy, and why she felt that the effects were “almost immediate” and a lot less draining.
- When your body is stuck in fight or flight doing detoxes and taking supplements is not as effective as it could be.
- How negative emotions can arise after a session, and the self-care tools that are provided.
- How chronic illness can make your life feel smaller and more complicated, and how neural retraining can start to turn that around.
- How current life stressors that would have caused a flare of symptoms have not since she started MAP.
- How working at the mental and emotional level leads to improvements in physical health.
- How many functional medicine practitioners are focused on testing for viruses, mold and other physical causes, when mind-body healing may be what is needed.
- How she now sees the timeline of stressors had a lot to do with the cascade of symptoms she experienced.
- How we work with the subconscious mind to resolve food sensitivities.
- How anyone can benefit from MAP sessions and why she calls it “an easier, softer way of getting to where you want to be.”

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy hearing Dr. Kelly Halderman’s experiences with the MAP Method in episode 36, or my conversation with Dr. Eric Balcavage about MAP for thyroid function in episode 88 of the Thyroid Answers podcast.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses and our MAP Programs. To schedule an Introductory MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.

Join me for episode 75 where we hear from Jelena Katić Ujević, MAP Coach and Trainer for the MAP Coaching Institute, about her new program for emotional and physical weight. Hear about the insights she gained by working with clients to achieve weight loss by processing unresolved painful emotions.

Learn more about the role of the stress response in weight gain and loss, and why loving yourself may be the necessary precursor to making healthier choices.

In this episode we discuss:
- Why eating right and exercising doesn’t always lead to weight loss.
- Why releasing emotional weight is an important first step.
- The significance of emotional stress on health and weight.
- How early life trauma changes our default response to stress.
- Why we may not have learned how to cope with emotional stress and how that contributes to emotional weight.
- How the subconscious mind remembers abuses associated with being attractive, and how those can become blocks to weight loss.
- How advanced neural retraining with MAP sessions can release unresolved pain and allow for changes in behaviors and habits.
- The research behind the program and the results for the early participants.
- The format of the program for the Basic and Premium options.
- Why subliminal audio files are Jelena’s preferred format.

Learn more about Jelena’s Neuro ReShape program and register for a free 7-day trial: https://www.mapcoachinginstitute.com/a/2147830880/Pe2eMzLo

If you enjoyed this episode, you may be interested in a previous episode: How to Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body, or my interview with Colette Streicher, LMSW, the founder of the MAP Method in episode 30.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses. To schedule a MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.

Join me for episode 74 where I will talk about how and why we can retrain the brain for chronic pain symptoms. This includes back pain, joint pain, muscle aches, headaches, migraines, scar pain or pain from old injuries, and pain from conditions like arthritis and fibromyalgia.

I will describe some examples of this with my clients, and my own stories of pain relief as well. I will talk a little bit about the MAP Program for Chronic Pain, and how it can be used alongside live sessions with a practitioner.

In this episode I discuss:
- The role of the subconscious mind in pain perception.
- How the brain can become hyper-responsive to pain impulses.
- The phenomenon of phantom pain, and shock.
- Sarno principles: pain and repressed emotions, the plight of the “perfect” and the “good.”
- How we use the MAP Method to work with the subconscious mind to find root causes of pain patterns.
- How ten minutes of toxic thoughts can lead to 10 hours of pain.
- How unrecognized emotional stress can be expressed as back pain.
- Client stories illustrating how subconscious emotional stress, triggers, beliefs, behaviors and resistance can amplify and prolong pain.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy hearing Helen’s story in episode 40: MAP for Chronic Pain where she talks about her autoimmune condition, ankylosing spondylitis, and the pain relief she experienced after a set of MAP sessions.

To learn more about the molecules of emotion and their effect on health, listen to episode 60: MAP for Emotional Causes of Illness..

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses and our MAP Programs, including the MAP Introduction Program. To schedule a MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.

Join me for episode 73 where we hear from my client, Tess, about her experiences with the MAP Method over 4 months, and how MAP has helped her to overcome her sensitivities to smells, chronic headaches, IBS, repetitive negative thoughts and improved her bloodwork.

Hear how she came to MAP already understanding the connection between trauma and chronic illness, and how MAP sessions proved more effective than other modalities she had tried including DNRS, EMDR, Safe and Sound, Somatics, and more.

In this episode we discuss:
- How she found the MAP method with a very focused Google search.
- Her experience with DNRS and how it helped, but wasn’t enough.
- What she was hoping to address in MAP sessions: multiple allergies and sensitivities (hearing, smell, touch, foods, environmental), IBS, chronic pain (headaches, neck, back, body aches), hypothyroid, mold, Lyme and coinfections.
- How she used the MAP for Self Healing to address negative thought loops, neck tension, and headaches.
- How she used the MAP for Sensitivities to resolve smell sensitivities.
- The improvements in her bloodwork: B12 levels, homocysteine, and white blood cell and red blood cell counts.
- The increased freedom she has in her life as a result of MAP: to travel, socialize, be outside, cook, see the dentist, wear a necklace, and drive alone.
- The emotional level changes she has noted: more relaxed, able to enjoy the moment, less fixated on having to “do the right thing all the time.”
- How she understands trauma to be “something that happened that your brain has not processed properly.”
- How she deals with symptoms that come up – let it come and let it go–and how nothing hurts as much or as long as it used to.
- When you’ve been sick your whole thought process changes, and to make the leap back, it requires neural retraining.
- Why symptom patterns sometimes show up strongly right before they break down for good.
- Her experience of neutralizing a trauma memory during a MAP session and how the memory and her perspective changed.
- How anyone of any faith or religious background can feel comfortable working with MAP.
- How MAP programs offer a convenient and affordable way to have MAP sessions on your own.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy hearing Susan’s story in episode 69: MAP for Chronic Illness or a functional medicine practitioner’s discussion of MAP for Complex Chronic Conditions.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses and our MAP Programs. To schedule an Introductory MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.

Join me for episode 72 where I will talk about how to prepare yourself for your first MAP session. I will go over the most important step, which is to watch the 15-minute preparatory video, and the flow of the first session as well as some common concerns about the MAP process.

If you are not familiar with the MAP Method, let me just say this: The MAP Method is a “beautifully simple” way to resolve or release trauma emotions. If you are familiar with energy psychology methods like EMDR or tapping, MAP is the next generation - gentler and goes deeper. If you are familiar with energy work like Reiki, you might think of MAP as Reiki for the mind. If you are familiar with acupuncture, this is similar, only we use the mind to diagnose blocks, and optimize energy flow. If you have tried neural retraining methods like DNRS, MAP sessions achieve the same ends with less time and effort.

In this episode, I discuss:
- How to schedule your Introductory MAP session.
- Why it is important to watch the preparatory video.
- How to access the Zoom and set up your video.
- How to choose a subject for your first session.
- Why we take a baseline of your topic before we get started.
- The purpose of the first MAP session, a 60-minute session.
- Why we take a few minutes to complete the initiation to MAP at the beginning of your first session.
- The flow of the Introductory session - what to expect.
- The purpose of syncing up our subconscious minds prior to working on your subject.
- The two streams of information a practitioner is following in a MAP session.
- How a MAP Practitioner is able to guide the session through muscle checking.
MAP is not hypnosis, it is a meditative process.
- What to expect as we begin to work on your subject.
- How to observe the clues that your subconscious mind is giving you during a session.
- Each MAP session is an iterative process.
- What you will notice by the end of the session that is an indication that the method is working for you.
- The value of neutralizing memories and its effect on subconscious programming, patterns of behavior, conditioned responses, symptoms, etc.
- Factors that will improve your receptivity to MAP.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may be interested in the previous episode: How to Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body, or my interview with Colette Streicher, LMSW, the founder of the MAP Method in episode 30.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses.

To schedule an Introductory MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.

Join me for episode 71 where I will talk about how to use your mind to optimize the healing capacity of your body. These are practices that you can pursue on your own, outside of MAP sessions, that are complementary to MAP or any other form of neural retraining.

While MAP is a fast and gentle method of releasing emotions, changing patterns of negative thoughts, quieting the inner critic, changing beliefs and perspectives, and even changing patterns of behavior like people-pleasing -- there is more that you can do with your conscious mind.

In this episode I discuss:
- The role of stress and how it affects your healing capabilities.
- How stress blocks all restorative functions of the body
- 7 ways you could be using your mind to prolong chronic illness
- Conscious versus subconscious sources of stress.
- How MAP sessions can help with subconscious sources of stress and negative mental patterns.
- How the predisposition to chronic illness is often established in the subconscious mind by traumatic events in childhood.
- 10 ways to manage your conscious mind to promote healing
- Helpful practices you can incorporate into your day to optimize wellness.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may be interested in the related episodes that were mentioned: Episode 30: The Impact of Trauma on Chronic Health Issues, Episode 52: MAP for Painful Memories and Episode 60: MAP for the Emotional Causes of Illness.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses. To schedule an Introductory MAP session please book online at TCNeuralRetraining.com.