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Post-screening discussion with This Might Hurt film
This seminar is an overview of how to use brain retraining to unlearn symptoms of fatigue, pain, and POTS associated with Long Covid. For more background on the science, to read fascinating long-form journalism explores Long Covid as a functional somatic disorder, go to our resources page here: [ Ссылка ]
00:00 Intros and bios
3:50 Michelle shares her story about overcoming ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, and pain syndromes associated with Ehlers-Danlos
09:15 Dr. Lily Graue shares how she developed chronic back pain after an injury and recovered
15:20 How can mind-body coaching help people?
22:00 How can these ideas percolate into the medical world so women are not dismissed?
25:45 How coaching can un-stick people's healing processes, especially for Long Covid?
31:12 Long Covid - How to understand this diagnosis if no structural damage as been found
38:00 How to work with extreme fatigue that leaves you unable to talk or have a call?
44:14 Can an eating disorder be considered a mind-body syndrome?
50:15 Covid-induced POTS-like symptoms -- what are the best tips?
PANELIST BIOS
Michelle Wiegers is a Certified Professional Life and Mind-Body Coach, writer and poet who discovered her creative voice and mind-body coaching work after recovering from over twenty-five years of chronic pain, fibromyalgia, sciatica, CFS, POTS, IBS and symptoms associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She creates restorative healing experiences with individual clients and through her online course, How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue. She can be found online at [ Ссылка ]
Lilia Graue, MD, LMFT is a physician, psychotherapist, coach, and grief tender in Mexico City, where she's practiced, lectured, and mentored for over 20 years in both Spanish and English. Her approach is collaborative, trauma sensitive, healing centered, and mindfulness and compassion based. She brings together radical care approaches to foster healing, and mentors healthcare professionals in engaging critical and feminist perspectives to promote justice and equity in medicine and healthcare. In addition to her work in chronic pain recovery, Dr. Graue has extensive experience in the fields of eating disorders and medical family therapy. She is a Clinical Advisor for Lin.Health and part of the Medical Advisory Board for The Better Mind Center. You can find her online at [ Ссылка ]
Marion Cunningham (director, producer, co-editor of This Might Hurt) is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who has produced series for Netflix, National Geographic, History, OWN, Discovery and A&E. Cunningham joined fellow Chapman University alum, Bassett, after meeting in NYC. She instantly connected with the story and after a multi-year journey, the two launched an Indiegogo campaign to procure finishing funds. Both are eager to share what they have learned in hopes of alleviating the suffering that has driven thousands into opioid addiction, as well as driving many taken off their painkillers to suicide.
