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Are you ready to take a mind-body leap with How We Heal in 2024? No matter how long you’ve endured, you can heal from chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety and other stress-related symptoms. How We Heal combines ground-breaking mind-body science with the powerful healing tools you need to recover.
Do you suffer from debilitating chronic fatigue, POTS, CRPS, hEDS or chronic back pain? Maybe you’re trying to manage life with frequent migraine, fibromyalgia, IBS, interstitial cystitis or anxiety? Are you struggling with post-viral symptoms due to Long Covid or CFS/ME? We certainly know what it’s like to be desperate for answers to chronic symptoms. And we also know there’s hope for healing.
The life-changing mind-body discoveries of Dr. John Sarno, Dr. Howard Schubiner, Alan Gordon and other mind-body experts are the foundation of How We Heal’s teaching and resources. In the course you will learn how stress and unprocessed emotions cause chronic symptoms, and how fear and learned neural pathways keep your symptoms alive and growing. We’ll help you understand your symptoms and your story, as you open your mind-body pathway to healing. You’ll gain all the tools you need to help you recover and take your life back!
“I no longer have POTS, CFS, or MCAS symptoms. I now can run, rock climb, hike, drink, and eat any food I want. I can also socialize more with others and be in stimulating environments that previously would have caused me to have symptoms and be in bed for days. In the course, I learned how to process my emotions in a healthy way so I don’t repress them. This is something I’m going to use for the rest of my life; it’s life-changing.”
MELANIE LEONG, MAY 2021 HOW WE HEAL COHORT
How We Heal Includes:
- Deep dive into mind-body healing, called TMS by Dr. John Sarno
- Understand how to recover from physically real, but stress-driven symptoms
- Learn to work with triggers and emotions that activate symptoms
- Understand your story as a context for symptoms and a pathway to healing
- Explore ways to create a sense of safety in your body, thoughts and life
- Mind-body somatic meditations to calm your system and connect with your body
- Extensive How We Heal written exercises to apply learning between classes
- Healing interviews, podcasts and articles to take you deeper
- Interactive learning site with class recordings, learning resources and more
- Optional 1:1 coaching to support you as you recover. Available only for How We Heal students!
The How We Heal course is taught by Mind-Body Coaches, Michelle Wiegers and Jill Pratt, who are kind and empathetic guides for your healing journey. Together they have recovered from: POTS, CFS, sciatica, chronic migraine, TMJ, fibromyalgia, IBS, food intolerances, depression, anxiety and chronic pain in the neck, shoulder, upper back, lower back, feet and hands.
“I love the course and wish I had been “prescribed” this years ago. I’ve done DNRS, ANS Rewire, watched the Curable workshop videos and read Dr. Schubiner’s 30-day program. This course is hands-down the most comprehensive and helpful of these. I now have better physical stamina and much fewer physical symptoms after challenging myself with activity and workouts. I can keep up with my work, household responsibilities and my kids!”
ELIZABETH, JANUARY 2021 HOW WE HEAL COHORT
Your Mind-Body Coaches
Michelle Wiegers is a mind-body coach, writer and poet who found her creative voice and mind-body coaching work after recovering from over twenty-five years of chronic pain, fibromyalgia, sciatica, CFS, POTS, and Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome pain. Through Dr. Howard Schubiner’s teachings and other vital mind-body resources, she recovered from TMS, going from barely being able to walk, to leading an active life. Michelle is committed to creating restorative healing experiences through her online group courses and is thrilled to offer you her self-guided course How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue. She coaches and teaches using mind-body science and creativity to help clients and students discover the truth inside of their symptoms and stories, so they can recover and take their lives back. To help her clients take their healing deeper, she wrote the How We Heal course. Michelle received her life coaching training with Awaken Coach Institute and holds a certificate in Spiritual Leadership with Leadership Transformations Inc.
Both Michelle and Jill also studied with mind-body medical experts Dr. Howard Schubiner and Hal Greenham in their Practitioner Training in Practical Neuroplasticity and The Emerging Mindbody Revolution in Chronic Pain Treatment.
Jill Pratt is a life and mind-body coach who works with professionals around the world focused on global social justice issues. Having used the mind-body approach to heal from over 20 years of chronic migraine, neck and back pain, TMJ, and other symptoms, Jill brings this life-changing work into her coaching with a passion for educating others on how they can heal from neuroplastic symptoms.
Prior to becoming a coach, Jill’s most recent work focused on advocacy in the Middle East. She holds a MA in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller School of Intercultural Studies, and has a Brené Brown Dare to Lead Trained certification. In addition to coaching clients, Jill serves as the Impact Producer for mind-body medicine’s leading documentary, This Might Hurt, which follows three chronic pain patients as they go through Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) treatment.
“It makes me cry to think of how my symptoms have changed! I am doing things now that I haven’t done in years, such as light arm weights, plank or downward dog and volunteering at a farm with my son—without getting migraines.”
KAROL MILLER, JANUARY 2021 HOW WE HEAL COHORT
Class Sessions
- Session 1: The Science of Mind-Body Medicine and Recovery
- First steps to understanding and applying Mind-Body science
- Understand the brain’s role in chronic symptoms
- Learn neural pathways and the brain’s danger response
- How the cycle of pain and fear perpetuates symptoms
- The brain’s neuroplasticity, our hope for adapting and healing
- Session 2: Receiving the Mind-Body Diagnosis
- Explore typical traits of mind-body symptoms
- Begin to gather evidence from the symptoms we experience
- How to understand medical explanations or diagnosis for symptoms
- Mindful practices that shift thoughts and retrain our brains
- Identifying key factors in our symptom timelines
- Session 3: How Thoughts and Triggers Affect Us
- Understanding the brain’s automatic protective response
- Beliefs about our symptoms or diagnosis and their impact on the body
- Evaluating thought patterns that create symptoms
- The power of affirmations in and for our bodies
- Deep dive into how to identify and begin to heal our triggers
- Session 4: Emotions from the Past, Present, and Inside the Body
- How stress, trauma and repressed emotions show up in the body
- Understanding the impact of anger and fear
- Using imagination and metaphor to understand life experiences
- Steps for recognizing and releasing strong emotions
- Self-regulation on the healing journey
- Session 5: How We Treat Ourselves Affects Our Bodies
- How self-pressure dysregulates the nervous system
- Common TMS personality traits and why we have them
- Recovering from self-destructive patterns of perfectionism and people-pleasing
- Decreasing self-criticism and increasing self-compassion
- Steps to cultivating self-compassion in our lives
- Session 6: Living Connected to Our Bodies and Truest Selves
- Loving and reconnecting with our bodies
- How to work with physical and emotional flare-ups
- The importance of creating safety, joy and play pathways
- Discovering and trusting our true selves
- Create your roadmap for continued mind-body healing
Course Q & A
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M READY FOR THIS COURSE? You’ve had major disease or structural causes ruled out by your medical practitioners. We are not doctors and cannot diagnose you. It’s essential that you see your medical professional to evaluate your symptoms prior to this class. Your symptoms haven’t improved long term by treatments that you’ve tried. You’re open to exploring your life experiences, emotions and physical sensations as pathways to healing. You are eager to work with thought patterns to retrain your brain. You appreciate learning in a supportive community.
- WHAT SYMPTOMS RESPOND TO MIND-BODY WORK? Assuming there’s no major structural or pathological issue, How We Heal can help with chronic back, neck or shoulder pain, chronic fatigue, migraine, fibromyalgia, CRPS, POTS, some symptoms related to Long Covid, irritable bowel and bladder, pelvic pain, TMJ, repetitive stress injuries, hypersensitivity syndromes, anxiety, insomnia and other stress-related conditions. It can also help with pain thought to be caused by Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome. (EDS) See a complete list of questions and diagnoses on the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association website.
- WHAT ARE SIGNS OF STRESS-RELATED SYMPTOMS? Your symptoms flare up with emotional or life stress. They start during a difficult time in your life, or with a previous illness or injury. You’ve worked with multiple practitioners, tried many treatments and still suffer with chronic symptoms. Symptoms come and go or move around the body. You’ve experienced one or more stress-related conditions—such as back pain and headaches or fibromyalgia and anxiety.
- CAN I GET EXTRA SUPPORT WHILE TAKING THE SELF-GUIDED COURSE? Yes, when coaches are available, students of How We Heal can purchase additional 1:1 coaching sessions with Michelle Wiegers or Jill Pratt as you study in the course. You may choose 1-3 coaching sessions, where we will help you apply your learning to the symptoms you experience and to your life. Bring a list of your questions to your sessions or we can take you through the Stress-Related Symptoms Self-Evaluation from the course homework. Request 1:1 coaching support by filling out our coaching form here.
- HOW DO I REGISTER? Fill out our registration form with some basic questions and then go to our course page to create your login and pay for the course.
- DOES HOW WE HEAL OFFER A PAYMENT PLAN OPTION? Yes, go to the bottom of the course registration page where you’ll find our How We Heal Payment Plan. You’ll pay the first $300 payment and then you will be automatically charged your second payment of $300, 30 days after your initial payment. Once your first payment is processed, we will contact you directly with your course login information. Be sure to fill out your registration information so we can contact you!
- DO YOU OFFER ANY FINANCIAL AID? If you’re ready to dive into the course but can’t afford the registration rate you may apply for assistance through our How We Heal Scholarship Program. We have a limited number of partial scholarships based on financial need. We appreciate your thoughtful responses in the application, as you consider what portion you’re able to afford. Follow this link to the Scholarship Application.
- WHAT’S YOUR REFUND POLICY? This work can bring up difficult emotions, sensations and thoughts but we encourage you to stick with it! Healing happens by moving through obstacles with consistent practice, while accessing the support we need along the way. However, if you’ve given the material your all and don’t feel it’s the right fit, we offer a money-back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course, minus a $55 processing fee. To inquire about a refund, please email us for a refund request form. Please explain your reasons for canceling which will helps us improve the course!
- HOW LONG CAN I ACCESS THE COURSE MATERIALS? You’ll have eight months from your purchase of the course to access the How We Heal class content. You can rewatch class videos during that time, plus download all audio meditations and written exercises to keep.
- COULD MY BRAIN REALLY BE CAUSING MY VERY REAL AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS? Your chronic symptoms are absolutely 100% real and you feel them in your body. But we know that stress-related symptoms are generated by the subconscious mind. When dealing with life stress or repressed emotions our brains go into protective mode on our behalf, creating symptoms. Mind-body symptoms are a normal human experience. Everyone can relate to feeling sick to your stomach before a big test or difficult conversation. These are all symptoms created by the brain and emotions. We now know chronic symptoms connect with and are perpetuated by our brains in this same way.
- HOW WE HEAL COURSE DISCLAIMER: The teachers of How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue are not doctors and cannot provide professional medical advice. The contents of the How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue course, such as text, lessons, graphics, videos and other material contained on the course (“Content”) are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have seen, heard or read in the How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue class. If you think you may have a medical problem, consult with your doctor. Reliance on any information provided by How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue, Michelle Wiegers, Jill Pratt or others appearing in the Content is solely at your own risk. While the Content in the How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue class attempts to be as accurate as possible, it should not be relied upon as being comprehensive or error-free.
