June 1, 2022 It's time for my May health update! This month had dramatic ups with a lengthy streak of time without pain, and I reduced time between weightlifting sets with no consequences for pain. However, the month also had an extraordinary down when I had the worst case of food [...]
May 1, 2022 Happy May, and welcome to my May health update! In a continued marvelous run for my chronic neuropathic pain, April was again the best month of my recovery to date. I also found an exciting treatment for chronic pain and other chronic illnesses, which I'll discuss below. Let's dive [...]
April 1, 2022 Welcome to my health update for March 2022. It turned into the best month yet for my chronic pain after I fully recovered from my illness at the end of last month. The month had a couple of minor challenges and significant progress. Afterword on [...]
March 1, 2022 Welcome to my health update for February 2022. The shortest month of the year is complete, and it was the best yet of my recovery! I experienced an unprecedented leap forward with my health and pain. I had a lot of physical development as well, losing 4.6 pounds [...]
February 1, 2022 Here is my January 2022 health update! This is a short post after covering so much territory in my extensive fifth recovery anniversary health update on January 16th. Still, I experienced more much-appreciated improvements! Starting the Year January was a busy month of [...]
Fifth Health Recovery Story Anniversary Before the Dawn Five years ago today, I had the weakest of a dying hope for a health recovery. The irony is that it was based on a false treatment model and doomed to fail. January 15th, 2017, was a day much like the previous [...]
January 1, 2022 I am bubbling with excitement for this December 2021 health update! It's been quite a close to the year for me, going far beyond my best expectations. Due to the extraordinary improvements I experienced, I'll go to more length than typical in these updates. [...]
December 1, 2021 Another month has passed, and there's more progress in my health recovery story! In this update, I'll touch on a period of increased symptoms, my physical improvement, and my health purchases on Black Friday. I had two more days with time without any pain, bringing the total [...]
November 1, 2021 I fell far enough behind that I'm lumping September and October into one update for my health recovery story. The delay is for good reasons! I've never worked and traveled for business this much. I also studied for and took another coaching certification exam. Additionally, I handled [...]
September 1, 2021 Ding dong, the parasites are gone! I am thrilled to write this monthly health update! Finally, after several more weeks of struggling through the anti-parasite protocol I detailed last month, I had a breakthrough with it and no longer have even a trace of any bugs. This [...]
August 1, 2021 Here's my health update for July. There is much to detail. This month was quite mixed—a lot of good, followed by not feeling well for an important and obvious reason. I'll start with the good. What Went Well At the risk of sounding [...]
July 1, 2021 Here is my health update for June. I recovered after the parasite detox reaction and had an excellent month! I'm going to resume the anti-parasite protocol now. I traveled a great deal this month, which made it ill-advised to continue with many negative symptoms. This was my [...]
June 1, 2021 Here's my health update for May. This was the most unusual month for me in the past year. I had a couple of new milestones, little pain, and functioned at a very high level during the first two-thirds of the month. Then my health dropped off sharply, [...]
May 3, 2021 Today, I'm committing to writing monthly-bimonthly health updates. As my health has improved and become a background issue with few obvious milestones, I rarely think to make the time to write about it. But I find that I still gain clarity when I take the time [...]
April 8, 2021 I'm pain-free again today! This makes five days in the last twenty-five years with a period where I didn't have pain for some part of the day. My big question is: where did this come from? This is the first time I've gotten this kind of [...]
March 29, 2021 Starting on my birthday, I had three consecutive days with pain-free time after only getting one such period in 25 years! Happy Birthday to me! I had nine hours without pain on my birthday, six the day after, and four on the following day. Yesterday, my [...]
The Top 8 Things to Naturally Help Your Chronic Pain How to Think, Move, and Breathe to Reduce Your Pain In part one of this article series, you got an introduction to pain neuroscience and learned about pain and the brain’s role in it. All of the terms [...]
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An Introduction to Pain Neuroscience What Pain Neuroscience Is and Why It Matters for You Pain neuroscience is the science of the nervous system and the brain, and how they relate to pain perception. In this two-part article, you'll learn the most important ways pain works and what [...]
Chapter 2 The Survive-and-Thrive Mindset "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred, Lord Tennyson I am often asked how I didn't give up despite all the pain and psychological agony I endured across decades when health professionals told me to expect no end to it. I'll share my [...]
Chapter 1: My Recovery Story "Climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow, 'till you find your dream." The Sound of Music During my long years of misery and constant severe pain, I never heard of anyone coming back from a health situation as lengthy, dire, limited, and continually progressive as [...]
