Releasing the Emotional Load To Get Your Life Back (Nicole Sachs) #longcovid #mecfs

In this episode, therapist and bestselling author Nicole Sachs shares what chronic symptoms are really trying to tell us, and how to finally get free. We talk about symptom imperatives, emotional reservoirs, the protective role of pain, and why fear—not damage—keeps symptoms chronic.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
📗 Mind your Body by Nicole Sachs — https://amzn.to/41Pc6SH

🧡 JournalSpeak — https://www.yourbreakawake.com/journalspeak

🏕️ Heal with Nicole Community (Monthly Zooms, live Q&As, and peer community) — https://www.yourbreakawake.com/membership

👉 Annual 5-day retreat at Omega Institute, New York, June 2025 — https://www.yourbreakawake.com/work-with-nicole

CONNECT WITH NICOLE SACHS:

🎙️ The Cure for Chronic Pain (Nicole’s Podcast) — https://www.yourbreakawake.com..../podcasts/the-cure-f

📷 Nicole's Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/nicolesachslcsw

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
📕 Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression by Howard Schubiner, MD—https://amzn.to/45MQlU9

🌟 Your Brain Can Keep You Sick: How to Break Free | Dr. Howard Schubiner, MD — https://youtu.be/cd1d999Oe6M

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LEARN MORE:
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TIME STAMPS:
00:00 🛏️ Safe in the Unsafest Way
01:31 👋 Meet Nicole Sachs
05:19 🦠 Long Covid and Childhood Trauma
08:11 🧠 Stress Responses Are Unconscious
12:05 🌊 Visualizing the Emotional Reservoir
15:08 🚨 When It Finally Spills Over
16:11 🧬 Why Your Brain Chooses That Symptom
18:54 👩‍⚕️ Nicole’s Own Back Pain Story
23:39 📊 The Symptom Imperative Explained
26:57 🔁 Why Symptoms Shift, Not Disappear
28:16 🧠 Broken Heart vs Broken Leg
29:17 ⚡ Nicole’s Symptom Imperative
30:43 😱 This Makes It Chronic
31:45 🔒 Why We Cling to Diagnoses
32:09 🗂️ The Index Card Exercise
36:23 💔 A Story Never Told In Her Book
37:32 🕊️ Partnering With the Body
39:06 ✨ She Had 30 Symptoms. Now None.
40:00 ✍️ What Is JournalSpeak?
42:07 💥 The Line That Changed Everything
43:30 👶 Her Childhood Promise to Heal
44:27 💡 Parenting Wasn’t Healing Me
46:01 📘 Write It, Trash It
47:04 💫 Pain Is the Biggest Little Part
50:19 🤝 Replace Fear with Curiosity
51:57 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Why You Need a Community
54:00 💬 We Have To Call It Chronic Pain
55:10 📖 Anxiety and Depression Are Messengers Too

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REMINDER: This is for information purposes only and nothing I share should be considered medical advice. Please make your own assessment, do your own further research, and consult your trusted healthcare professionals before deciding if anything I talk about here might be right for you.

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