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Meet Réa: a vibrant newlywed woman enjoying her honeymoon when symptoms suddenly strike out of the blue. Réa’s life is put on hold as she experiences a mind-boggling array of visual symptoms and dizziness that eventually make her unable to work, and plans to start a family have to be postponed. She experienced visual vertigo, isual snow, light sensitivity, Alice in Wonderland symptoms, blurry vision, delayed vision, dizziness, rocking, insomnia and more and was very debilitated at her worst.
Learn about the all-too-common poor experiences with doctors, how a helpful hypnotherapist got her started on her healing path, and what happened when she found the Steady Coach via a lucky search on Insight Timer. Discover what was most helpful to her and how things truly shifted once she began the emotional work with the fabulous Pippa Braund, MSc.
Hear the beautiful story of Réa's brave decision to become a mother mid-recovery, and how the sense of purpose and the pursuit of living her life supported her healing. A powerful story with a very happy ending.
Links:
Re-wire your brain for chronic symptom recovery by changing your mind: interview w/Dr. Tori Olds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWUkx-yJMM
Learn more about Dr. Yonit, Pippa and The Steady Coach on our website: https://thesteadycoach.com
Please note that Yonit Arthur, The Steady Coach and any of our other guests are not acting as an audiologist nor offering audiology or medical services or advice on any public videos or on any other content. This channel provides wellness education and personal opinion only, and are not meant to be a substitute for medical or mental health instruction or intervention. Use any tools discussed at your own risk.
00:00 Intro
02:59 Who is Réa?
05:41 How it all started: marriage stress, honeymoon relaxation
07:18 Sudden onset: light sensitivity, blurred vision, pain, poor night vision, optician visits, brain fog, anxiety, vision distortions, work situation
16:30 Doctor visit, worsening symptoms, visual snow, rocking, insomnia, movement sensitivity, brain zaps
22:44 Symptoms vs. anxiety: what started NCD / what kept it going?
29:23 Unhelpful doctors, medications, feelings of shame, seeking medical clearance
37:58 Hypnotherapy, message of safety, some progress
44:45 Finding Yonit, tools and coaching group, reassurance, handling doubt
51:54 What helped Réa: finding a routine, breathwork, meditations, exposure with somatic tracking, the ups and downs
57:02 The emotional component: coaching with Pippa, grief over life on hold, holding space for emotions, it wasn’t about symptoms, parts work
1:06:07 Building capacity for feeling; symptoms tend to stir up unresolved issues, avoiding feeling, feeling vs. logic
1:17:13 Becoming a mother during recovery, gradual recovery, purpose and refocusing, when symptoms resolved
1:28:03 Advice from Réa to others: you will get through this, nurturing yourself, you are not your symptoms