Movement is Medicine for both the mind and body.    But.. What if I am scared to move? What if I have not moved in a very long time?    How I began to bring in movement during chronic illness:   For a year and a half during my experience with chronic illness, I literally laid on the couch all day, every day. Sometimes I would move outside to a cushion in the sun, but my movement was limited to shifting from one cushion to another or walking upstairs to the bathroom and bed (

My journey through chronic illness taught me countless lessons many of which have stayed with me long after healing. Two of the most powerful have been surrender and acceptance.   When I was dealing with over 15 different symptoms, I began to learn how to surrender to them after discovering they were caused by TMS. Understanding that these symptoms were neuroplastic (created by the brain) helped me realize they weren’t actually harmful. As I began practicing somatic tracking,

Oftentimes, when we have an acute illness like a cold or the flu, we are so tired that we welcome rest. We know it's only for a little while, as our bodies do the work of healing from the infection.   However, when we’re experiencing chronic illness, fatigue, or long-term debilitating symptoms, all we often want is to do  again! I know this feeling very well.   I experienced chronic fatigue and symptoms for almost three years. Especially at the beginning of being sick, all I