Healing Fibromyalgia

At a retreat in Egypt, I hosted a fascia release workshop — and witnessed a transformation I will never forget. A woman living with fibromyalgia for over 15 years, in constant pain and daily medication, experienced her first moment of freedom in her body. In this story, I share how chronic tension, trauma, and pain can be released when the body feels safe and the mind begins to believe in healing again.

A powerful reminder that even conditions you’ve been told are “forever” can shift when hope returns and the body’s self-healing mode is activated.

Transcript

Hey love.

Today I want to tell you a story.

Earlier this year I was invited to a retreat in Egypt and one afternoon I was asked to host a facial release workshop,

A session designed to let go of stored tension in the body.

And among the group was a woman who had been living with fibromyalgia for over 15 years.

If you know fibromyalgia,

You know it's not just pain.

It's your entire nervous system stuck in fight or flight every single day.

Your muscles can't relax,

Sitting hurts,

Lying down hurts,

Being touched hurts.

You can't really move,

You can't work out and every moment is wrapped in tension.

She had tried everything,

But nothing worked.

So she managed the pain with daily medication,

Just to get through.

We began the workshop and slowly we started to put pressure into the fascia,

The connective tissue that holds not only physical tension,

But often emotional memory.

And something happened.

Her fascia started to release.

Not slowly over a month,

But right there,

In the room.

It was as if her body had been craving this release for years,

Maybe decades.

And the moment it was given the chance,

It opened.

She stopped taking her medication that very day.

And now,

4 months later,

She still hasn't needed it.

Because she knows she has a way to help her body release the pain.

After the workshop,

She came to me with tears in her eyes and said,

Dana,

This is the first time in 15 years I feel free in my own body.

And that's when it hit me.

Her healing didn't just begin because we worked on the fascia.

It began because she believed again.

She saw something work after years of disappointment.

And the moment she had hope,

Her body had permission to do what it's always wanted to do.

Heal.

She carried a traumatic childhood in her body.

Emotions she never had the chance to process were locked into her nervous system,

In her fascia.

And that day,

We opened the door.

Healing isn't always instant.

It's not always easy.

And it's not linear.

But it is possible,

Even from the things you've been told are forever.

Even when you've stopped believing it could happen for you.

Your body is not your enemy.

It is your greatest ally.

And when you give it the tools,

The safety,

And the belief,

It will find its way home.

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I wish you could get through to my mother on this one. She does not wish to listen to me as a nurse for I am her son and she is also a nurse and is convinced in all of these auto-immune disorders that they always need the right medication. I view the person holistically. She views on a purely physiological biology realm. She also now has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimher’s as was the case with my Nana and we had to go through that together but she has convinced her body to go the way it goes and I do not know how to stop her. My siblings are tired of her and just joke about this, but I am actually very much trying my best to find a way to get her to realize that she can get better and to be positive and optimistic.