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From Fear To Freedom: Mindbody Tools For Chronic Symptom Recovery
5
10 dias

From Fear To Freedom: Mindbody Tools For Chronic Symptom Recovery

Por Mel Schweder

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O que você irá aprender
In this 10-day course, you’ll learn how to overcome chronic symptoms like pain, fatigue, brain fog, IBS, and more, using evidence-based, drug-free techniques rooted in the latest neuroscience and mindbody research. Drawing from my personal recovery journey—and the work I now do with clients—you’ll be guided through practical tools that can help rewire the brain’s threat response, calm the nervous system, and rebuild trust in your body. Course Objectives: - Understand how chronic symptoms can stem from brain and nervous system patterns, not permanent damage. - Learn how to shift limiting language, beliefs, and illness identity. - Develop emotional awareness and emotional processing skills for deeper healing. - Cultivate positive brain states (through DOSE chemistry) to support neuroplastic change. - Practice somatic meditation and body-based techniques to create safety in the body. - Recognize and gently shift limiting mindset patterns, aka the five Fs. - Gradually re-engage with meaningful activities using the SAFE method. - Build resilience, self-compassion, and confidence for long-term recovery. You’ll leave with a powerful set of mindbody tools you can continue to use daily—and the deep understanding that you are not broken and you can recover your life. Music: Guitar in the Grove by Chris Collins- Indiemusicbox

Mel Schweder

Oregon, USA

Mel is a mindbody coach, Reiki Master, and certified Pain Reprocessing Therapy practitioner, specializing in helping people recover from chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and more. Her educational background in human health sciences, combined with her own experience with 15+ years of chronic symptoms, gives her unique insights into the recovery...

Lição 1
Understanding The Mindbody Connection: Why Neuroplastic Symptoms Are Real And Reversible
Discover how chronic symptoms like pain, fatigue, or anxiety can be caused by a nervous system stuck in “survival mode.” In this first lesson, you’ll learn how stress and emotion create real physical sensations—and how they can be unlearned. We’ll explore a simple quiz to help you assess if your symptoms are mind-body-related and show you why recovery is not only possible, but probable.
Lição 2
Reclaiming Your Identity: Language, Labels, And Letting Go
Today, we explore how the words we use—and the identities we hold—can shape our healing. You’ll learn how to shift from “I am” to “I feel,” creating space between who you are and what you’re experiencing. Through reflection and journaling, we’ll begin loosening the grip of diagnoses and reconnecting with your deeper self, beyond symptoms, labels, or limitations.
Lição 3
Feel It To Heal It: The Power Of Emotions In Recovery
Today, we dive into the emotional roots of chronic symptoms. You’ll learn how repressed emotions like anger, fear, or sadness can get stored in the body—and how feeling them fully is a powerful step toward healing. Using tools like the RAIN method and somatic exploration, we’ll begin building emotional awareness and self-compassion. Emotions aren’t the problem—avoiding them is. Let’s learn to feel what’s true, so your body can finally exhale.
Lição 4
Rewiring For Joy: Cultivating Safety And Positive Emotion
Today’s focus is on intentionally creating moments of joy, calm, and safety to support healing. You’ll learn how boosting your brain’s natural “feel-good” chemicals—dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins (DOSE)—can help rewire patterns of chronic symptoms. Through a guided heart coherence meditation, we’ll practice shifting your inner state to promote healing from the inside out. No pressure or toxic positivity here—just gentle steps toward reconnecting with peace, purpose, and possibility.
Lição 5
Playing Fetch: How The Brain Predicts And Creates Symptoms
Today, we uncover how the brain’s survival wiring—and its habit of predicting danger—can keep chronic symptoms like pain and fatigue alive. You’ll learn how subconscious processes like negativity bias and predictive coding shape what you feel, and how redirecting your focus to safe, pleasant sensations can begin to calm the nervous system. With today’s guided practice, you’ll start teaching your brain a new story: one of safety, balance, and trust in your body.
Lição 6
Befriending The Body: Somatic Tracking For Safety And Trust
Today, we shift from fear to curiosity as we reconnect with the body through somatic practices. You’ll learn how to gently observe physical sensations—without judgment or urgency—using somatic tracking, a powerful technique for calming the brain’s danger signals. By approaching symptoms with openness and compassion, we begin to rebuild trust in the body and experience sensations as safe, temporary messengers, not threats or things to fix.
Lição 7
Healing From The Bottom Up: Body-Based Tools For Nervous System Regulation
Today’s lesson highlights the power of body-based (somatic) practices in calming the nervous system and supporting lasting healing. While mindset and meditation matter, real change often starts in the body. You’ll learn how simple movements—like breathwork, shaking, and "noodle time"—can send signals of safety to the brain, helping unwind stored stress. Rooted in polyvagal theory and somatic therapy, these practices offer a grounded, physical way to shift from survival mode into a state of calm, connection, and repair.
Lição 8
Breaking The Loop: Getting Free From The 5 Fs
Today, we explore five common mindset traps—Fear, Focus, Fighting, Fixing, and Frustration—that can unknowingly keep the brain stuck in a cycle of chronic symptoms. You’ll learn how these patterns, though well-intentioned, signal danger to the nervous system and reinforce the very sensations you're trying to escape. Through reflection and gentle awareness, we’ll begin loosening the grip of these habits, especially the “fixing” mindset, and shift toward an attitude of trust, curiosity, and compassion that supports real recovery.
Lição 9
Back To Living Again: The Safe Way To Reclaim Your Life
Today’s lesson is about gently returning to the life you’ve been missing. Using the SAFE method, you’ll learn how to mindfully reintroduce activities you’ve avoided, not by pushing through, but by creating safety from within. With tools like pacing, visualization, and nervous system support, you’ll begin shifting from fear-based avoidance to empowered action. Healing isn’t about waiting for symptoms to vanish—it’s about moving toward what matters, one safe step at a time.
Lição 10
Embracing The Journey: Resilience, Setbacks, And Moving Forward
In our final lesson, we focus on building lasting resilience and self-compassion as you continue your journey. Recovery isn’t a straight line—setbacks (or “ebbs”) are part of the process. What matters most is how you respond. Today, you’ll learn how to meet challenges with calm, let go of timelines and perfectionism, and shift from fixing to trusting. Through a future-self visualization, you’ll reconnect with your inner strength and remember: you are not broken—you are rewiring your brain, one moment at a time.

Avaliações Recentes

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Kalyani
January 12, 2026
This is an excellent course! I learned so much! Highly recommend if you would like to learn more about this.👍🏼🎉💗
Corine
January 10, 2026
This was such an impactfull course for me. It helped me get a real understanding about the mind-body connection and already eased some of my symptoms. It also provides usefull tools to keep improving. Also loved the visualisaton on the last day. Thank you so much for this course it really shifted something for me🙏
Hayley-Rose
December 20, 2025
So much information but delivered in an easy to understand manner with daily guided practices to try out new tools to aid in the recovery process. Mel is also responsive to questions asked in the classroom - friendly, supportive and encouraging.
Robin
November 25, 2025
Fantastic course filled with realistic ways to deal with neuro plastic conditions. Mel speaks from personal experience and is so understanding, supportive and responsive to comments and questions. Highly recommend.
Nicole
October 21, 2025
Holistic Psychotherapist here with 50+ years of experience, and someone with TMS, mind-body syndrome, neuroplastic pain, etc. I have also been trained in pain processing therapy. All of this is to say that I think I have a lifetime’s worth of experience in this field, both personally and professionally, and I was very impressed with the...
Ann
September 14, 2025
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and experience. I learned so much about myself and my patterns. The best part is that now I have hope. In fact, now I know that I can do this. I AM doing this and I already have a different relationship with my body and mind. After 14 years of suffering, I’m on my to living life again. A huge thank you and much gratitude for your generosity!
Marie
September 8, 2025
I’ve never had information like this made available to me before. Course, I Was able to use the information I got in this course to find this YouTube Video presentation by a psychiatrist on psychosomatic illness… That Brought everything together and helped me to realize that it’s physical not just my emotional reaction to things. All of this...
Cyndee
August 28, 2025
So good! Saving this course to listen again and again ❤️
Georgia
August 5, 2025
This was amazing. Thank you so much, it brought together everything I thought I knew about neuroplastic pain in one place. I feel hopeful about the future
Tess
July 28, 2025
Such a brilliant short course and accessible summary of mind-body/neuroplasticity science. I’ve listened 3 times so far to keep reminding my brain when things inevitably flare up! Thank you Mel for sharing this information so beautifully and generously. This is life-changing work 💛💫
Lori
July 23, 2025
This course was extremely helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge & experience. I can see the negative loop I'm in & chose to work on the 3 P's. I recognize timeline is a big one for me & I'm constantly reminding myself that it's not a race & I'm not running out of time. The meditations & visualizations are extremely valuable. I'm grateful...
Biggi
July 19, 2025
This course integrates the best of both worlds - science and mindfulness. I highly recommend it for anyone living with chronic symptoms, be they physical or emotional. It has a gentle rhythm and tone which I appreciated very much. Thank You 🙏🏼
Barbara
June 3, 2025
Many helpful tips in this wonderful toolbox for healing. It’s nice to know I can revisit it as needed. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom. 🙏🏻☯️🌸
Lexie
May 25, 2025
Amazing!! I wish I had heard this years ago and started my journey to healing then. Highly recommend.
Eliza
May 22, 2025
Fabulous course: informative, practical, reassuring and even relaxing. Thank you so much.

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