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📘 Breaking Free by Jan Rothney (Updated Edition) - https://amzn.to/4f0mbTE

In this video, Jan Rothney shares how she recovered from ME/CFS after being bedridden, relapsing, and being told by specialists that recovery was impossible. She explains how chronic symptoms can become stuck in brain-body loops, why safety, self-agency, emotional work, and supportive community matter, and how tiny “green shoots” can help rebuild confidence in recovery.

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
📺 My First Interview with Jan Rothney: https://youtu.be/CQgGNYwpmBM

CONNECT WITH JAN ROTHNEY:
🌐 Jan’s website: https://www.resettothrive.co.uk/
📺 Reset to Thrive YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNxzlu4Ek0RXP3n4wfzItw

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OTHER HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES:
✅ Recover now with Raelan 👉 Join Brain Retraining 101: https://tinyurl.com/brainretraining101
Includes bite size videos, weekly live group coaching calls + support group.

📌 Join my FREE 5-day brain retraining Email starter course: simple and actionable steps, straight to your inbox: https://mailchi.mp/raelanagle.com/brain-retraining

👉 Try FreeMe FREE for 6 sessions 👉 https://freemehealth.com/getfreeme

✅ Become a Channel Member! Your support makes a huge difference in sharing stories of ME/CFS and Long Covid recovery 👇
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LET'S BE FRIENDS:
🌐 Visit My Website - https://raelanagle.com
📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/raelan.agle

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 💔 Told “You’ll Never Recover”
03:01 🚨 10 Years of Warning Signs
04:48 🔁 Recovering, Relapsing, and Learning the Hard Way
05:15 🥀 The Words That Destroyed Her
06:05 📘 Writing Breaking Free During Lockdown
07:21 🌱 How Reset to Thrive Grew
08:37 🧠 Acute Illness vs. Chronic Loops
09:55 🔄 The Negative Feedback Loop
11:09 🎯 Attention Bias to Threat
12:46 🚪 Why Going Outside Can Feel Unsafe
15:00 🧘 The First Step: Become Conscious
16:33 🪷 Learning to Sit With Symptoms
18:28 💪 Self-Agency Changes the Brain
21:27 🌿 Green Shoots of Recovery
23:46 🕺 Making Energy Feel Rewarding Again
25:30 💭 The Emotional Work Underneath Recovery
26:35 🫣 Shame, Fear, and Perfectionism
29:17 🔓 Resentment, Forgiveness, and Somatic Work
33:12 🤲 Why Supportive Community Matters

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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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🧠 Understand Your Natural Wiring and Work With It: Not Against It —  https://www.mickeltherapy.com/a/2148294302/ZaxaFeeq

Wired for Wonder™ is designed for people who are naturally highly responsive, deeply feeling, creatively driven or identify with ADHD, neurodivergence or high sensitivity; Wired for Wonder™ helps you work with your nervous system rather than against it.

Instead of trying to become “normal,” you’ll discover how to harness your natural way of being so it becomes a source of energy, creativity and fulfilment rather than exhaustion.'

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In this video, Dr. David Mickel shares why he believes chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID, chronic pain, and related conditions persist not because the body is broken, but because people have become disconnected from their body’s natural communication system.

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Mickel Therapy® is designed for people living with ME/CFS, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and other fatigue-related conditions, Mickel Therapy® helps you understand and change the hidden emotional patterns that can keep the body stuck in survival mode. Through practical body-based skills, you’ll learn how to reduce nervous system overload, restore energy regulation, and support lasting recovery.

Start your Mickel Therapy® healing journey today with a 10% discount (coupon code RAELAN) and free mobile app:

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🌟 Dr. Mickel’s YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@MickelTherapy-OfficialSite-m6v/

ALSO MENTIONED:
💙 Vitality Foundation (financial assistance for Mickel Therapy) - https://www.thevitality.foundation

RELATED VIDEOS:
👉 My First Interview with Dr. Mickel (MUST WATCH!) - https://youtu.be/0d5fqI3X9vo
👉 Live Q&A With David Mickel - https://youtube.com/live/7woxs2A8t_w
👉 Ask Dr. Mickel Anything - https://youtube.com/live/-8m3Adq5Yfw

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✅ Become a Channel Member! Your support makes a huge difference in sharing stories of ME/CFS and Long Covid recovery 👇
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🤝 Meet Dr. David Mickel, MD
01:28 🗣️ Why This Approach Gets Dismissed
03:59 ⚡ The Prolonged Activation State
05:27 🚗 The Accelerator Analogy
07:27 🔍 How to Know If This Applies to You
08:47 😴 The Hidden Cost of Body Boredom
11:32 🧪 Are Physical Abnormalities the Cause?
13:43 🧠 Predictive Processing vs Body Feedback
18:00 🌟 What Is Wired for Wonder?
20:15 🐎 Becoming Body-Led Instead of Mind-Led
21:50 💭 How Do You Actually Feel an Emotion?
23:43 👶 Why We Lose This Ability as Adults
26:36 🧭 Following Symptoms Instead of Fighting Them
28:45 ☎️ Free Consultations & Program Options
31:23 🚀 Why Some Young People Recover Quickly
34:00 🧩 Neurodiversity, Sensitivity & Symptoms
36:07 🙏 Does Your Belief System Matter?
37:00 💙 Hope for People Who Feel Stuck
38:22 🌱 The Vitality Foundation

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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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✅ Tired of trying everything? Brain Retraining 101 gives you a clear path. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/brainretraining101
Bite-size videos + weekly live calls + a community that gets it.

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
👉 Watch the interview with Devon Carter: https://youtube.com/live/ugp4nwhv8Tc

👉 Watch the interview with Dr. Howard Schubiner: https://youtu.be/cd1d999Oe6M
📘 Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression by Dr. Schubiner: https://amzn.to/4fdiE4V

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In this episode, Brain Retraining 101 coach Björn Borgers shares his own recovery from Long Covid and the most common roadblocks he sees people hit when trying to get better. 

He walks through what brain retraining actually looks like day to day, from expanding activity and working with symptoms, to changing your relationship with health trackers and addressing the chronic stress most people don't even realize they're carrying.

OTHER HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES:
📌 Join my FREE 5-day brain retraining email starter course. Simple and actionable steps, straight to your inbox: https://mailchi.mp/raelanagle.com/brain-retraining

✅ Become a Channel Member! Your support makes a huge difference in sharing stories of ME/CFS and Long Covid recovery 👇 
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✅ Get my FREE weekly newsletter. Subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/3bd95045319b/raelan-agle
🌐 Visit My Website: https://raelanagle.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raelan.agle

NOTE: This description may contain affiliate links to products I enjoy using myself. As an associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Should you choose to use these links, this channel may earn affiliate commissions at no additional cost to you. I appreciate your support!

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.

#longcovid #longhauler #longcovidrecovery #chronicfatiguesyndrome #chronicfatigue #cfsrecovery #mecfsrecovery #recoveryispossible #recoverystory #chronicillness #chronicillnessrecovery #fibromyalgia #dysautonomia #postviral #brainretraining #neuroplasticity #neuroplasticitytraining #braintraining #rewireyourbrain #nervoussystemhealing #nervoussystemregulation #mindbody #mindbodyconnection #mindbodymedicine #anxiety #chronicpain #pots #vagusnerve #exposuretherapy #chronicstress #yoganidra #healthcoaching #recoveryfromcfs #longhaul #bjornborgers #brainretraining101 #mecfs
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👉 Join  Zara’s Regulate and Rewire: A Holistic Brain Retraining Program: https://payhip.com/b/VOYo8/af6a268022c2840

🧘 Free Meditations from Zara / Uplift Virtual Therapy: https://www.upliftvirtualtherapy.com/free-meditations

📚 Zara’s books and workbook: https://www.upliftvirtualtherapy.com/bookonline-course

In this episode, Zara Dureno shares why recovery from ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, long covid, POTS, MCAS, chronic pain, and other centrally sensitized symptoms is possible. She explains why symptoms can feel so physical without being permanent damage, how setbacks can be part of healing, and what helps people move toward more function and recovery over time.

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
👉 My First Interview with Zara Dureno: https://youtu.be/mAV4atBlrDY
📗 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://amzn.to/4hNuy3N
📖 The Choice by Edith Eva Eger: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Choice/Edith-Eva-Eger/9781501130793
🧠 A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259

CONNECT WITH ZARA DURENO:
🌐 Zara's Website - https://www.upliftvirtualtherapy.com/
📺 Zara's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@upliftvirtualtherapy
📕 Zara's Book, Courses & 1:1 Support - https://www.upliftvirtualtherapy.com/
📲 Zara's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/uplift_virtualtherapy
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@upliftvirtualtherapy

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OTHER HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES:
✅ Recover now with Raelan 👉 Join Brain Retraining 101: https://tinyurl.com/brainretraining101
Includes bite size videos, weekly live group coaching calls + support group.

📌Join my FREE 5-day brain retraining Email starter course - simple and actionable steps, straight to your inbox: https://mailchi.mp/raelanagle.com/brain-retraining

👉 Try FreeMe FREE for 6 sessions 👉 https://freemehealth.com/getfreeme

✅ Become a Channel Member! Your support makes a huge difference in sharing stories of ME/CFS and Long Covid recovery 👇
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy4EjD4exCbtuGQkSa71ozA/join

LET'S BE FRIENDS:
🌐 Visit My Website - https://raelanagle.com
📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/raelan.agle

NOTE: This description may contain affiliate links to products I enjoy using myself. As an associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Should you choose to use these links, this channel may earn affiliate commissions at no additional cost to you. I appreciate your support!

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.

#mecfs #longcovid #fibromyalgia #chronicfatiguesyndrome #chronicpain #chronicfatigue #postcovid #longhaul #cfsrecovery #mecfsrecovery #mecfsawareness #dysregulation #longcovidrecovery #recoveryispossible #covidrecovery #recoverystory #chronicillness #fibromyalgia #healthjourney #healing #mindbody #emotionalhealth #longhauler #dysautonomia #dysautonomiaawareness #brainretraining #neuroplasticitytraining #braintraining #neuroplasticity #pots #functionalneurologicaldisorder #anxiety #mindbodyconnection #chronicillnessrecovery #mindbodymedicine #postviral #tms #vagusnerve #rewireyourbrain #nervoussystemhealing #nervoussystemregulation #zaradureno #upliftvirtualtherapy
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👉 Dr. Schubiner's new book 📘 Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression: https://amzn.to/4fdiE4V

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In this video, Dr. Schubiner shares how neuroplastic symptoms can keep chronic pain, chronic fatigue, long covid, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, anxiety, depression, and other chronic symptoms stuck even after the body has healed, and how to resolve this.

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
👉 My previous interview with Dr. Howard Schubiner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd1d999Oe6M
👉 Listen to the interview with Dr. Paul Garner: https://youtu.be/zvGkiIF9jAI
👉 Listen to the interview with Fiona Symington: https://youtu.be/3GaC_q_kE0c

🌐 Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab: https://www.picardlab.org/members.html
📖 Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Dr. John Sarno, MD - https://amzn.to/3UVJ5BB
🧠 Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT): https://www.painreprocessingtherapy.com/

🛎️ The Boulder chronic back pain study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zdtRQ0T0KOAn5roHgnLsWQWTCgn7mb2/view

🛎️ ATNS' annotated bibliography for neuroplastic symptoms - https://www.symptomatic.me/scientific-research

CONNECT WITH DR. HOWARD SCHUBINER
🌐 Dr. Howard Schubiner’s Website: https://unlearnyourpain.com
🌐 Cormendi Health: https://cormendihealth.com/meet-dr-schubiner

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OTHER HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES:
✅ Recover now with Raelan 👉 Join Brain Retraining 101: https://tinyurl.com/brainretraining101
Includes bite size videos, weekly live group coaching calls + support group.

📌Join my FREE 5-day brain retraining Email starter course - simple and actionable steps, straight to your inbox: https://mailchi.mp/raelanagle.com/brain-retraining

👉 Try FreeMe FREE for 6 sessions 👉 https://freemehealth.com/getfreeme

✅ Become a Channel Member! Your support makes a huge difference in sharing stories of ME/CFS and Long Covid recovery 👇
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy4EjD4exCbtuGQkSa71ozA/join

LET'S BE FRIENDS:
🌐 Visit My Website - https://raelanagle.com
📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/raelan.agle

NOTE: This description may contain affiliate links to products I enjoy using myself. As an associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Should you choose to use these links, this channel may earn affiliate commissions at no additional cost to you. I appreciate your support!

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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