The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Today we are back with our popular REAL TIME HEAL series. Clara reached out last fall, struggling to overcome facial burning and pain diagnosed as Trigeminal Neuralgia. She had come a ways on her own, but was looking for guidance on how to take her healing to the next level. In hearing her story, I was stricken by the big feelings Clara had as a young child, and the anxiety that accompanied a trauma which launched her into perfectionism in order to manage her world. I relate so much!! This is the way many of us deal with the uncertainties in our lives. By the end, I feel confident that Clara has the insights and tools she needs to heal. Join us! Also, I'm excited to announce that the Curable App is officially sponsoring my online retreat as well as this podcast! Curable is such an incredible partner in my efforts in bringing healing to you all, and I'm so happy to include them in my offerings. They are generously offering a special discount for my listeners: 50% off a year's membership! Just go to  www.getcurable.com/nicole to take advantage of this incredible offer. If you are interested in supporting the many free resources I offer to get this message to the global community, please consider donating to my cause on my website, www.thecureforchronicpain.com. Look for the DONATE button on the home page. Thank you so much! ANNOUCEMENTS: CANCELLED: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has sadly been cancelled for October 18-23, 2020. I hope to reschedule for 2021. 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Explore the transformative journey of embracing emotions like sadness, anger, and shame. Learn how self-acceptance can pave the way for peace alongside inner turmoil. Discover practices like journaling and mindfulness to promote healing and personal growth. The speaker emphasizes the power of surrendering to emotions, encouraging listeners to be gentle with themselves. A virtual retreat is also announced, focusing on body connection and self-compassion, offering a unique opportunity for global togetherness in times of change.

Lisa Schlosberg, LMSW is an expert in emotional eating, body image, and the mind/body connection as it pertains to all things food. In addition, Lisa has her own story of her journey out of childhood obesity, and the terrible IBS she had no idea was curable with mind/body work.. until she met me. We discuss it all on the pod today! Lisa is one of my OMEGA guest instructors, and will be teaching alongside me at my virtual retreat June 5-7th. Join us for an incredible conversation, and at the retreat if you are curious to learn much more! Love and light to you, wherever this may find you. XOOX n. My first ever VIRTUAL FULL WEEKEND RETREAT is live and on sale! With the cancellation of OMEGA, my guest instructors have rallied and we will be coming together to bring you an incredible weekend of connection, guidance and love on June 5-7, 2020. Click here for all the info! **INCLUDED IN YOUR RETREAT FEE IS A COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD OF MY ONLINE COURSE AS WELL AS ALL 4 OF MY ORIGINAL GUIDED MEDITATIONS** MORE RETREATS: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On my recent podcast with Gabby Bernstein (who is proudly and publicly sober and has been for years) I shared that I, too, am sober. For over 5 years. Since then, I have been receiving tons of emails asking me to dedicate a podcast to the topic, and today I decided to do so. I am further inspired to share, as I am concerned that this time of quarantine may leave more and more people susceptible to the allure of drowning their feelings and fears in substances, and I want to bring connection to this potential reality. I hope that my story can invite many of you to feel less alone. We do not have to live in the grips of alcohol, or any other substance, should we awaken to our choice not to. Also today I announce my LIVE REAL TIME HEAL EXPERIENCE ON INSTAGRAM with Liz Melani of @thepracticeco. On May 19th at 5:30pm EDT I will go LIVE on @thepracticeco profile on Instagram and do a totally unscripted therapy session with Liz about her story and her chronic pain. Similar to all the REAL TIME HEALS, this will be totally raw and fresh, but in addition it will be LIVE. Come join us. Follow me on instagram @nicolesachslcsw and The Practice Co @thepracticeco and experience this first ever moment. I think it will help so many, and Liz is bravely willing to show up and include you all. I'm very excited! Love and light to you, wherever this may find you. XOOX n. My first ever VIRTUAL FULL WEEKEND RETREAT is live and on sale! With the cancellation of OMEGA, my guest instructors have rallied and we will be coming together to bring you an incredible weekend of connection, guidance and love on June 5-7, 2020. Click here for all the info! **INCLUDED IN YOUR RETREAT FEE IS A COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD OF MY ONLINE COURSE AS WELL AS ALL 4 OF MY ORIGINAL GUIDED MEDITATIONS** MORE RETREATS: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ever popular REAL TIME HEAL series is back with a moving session with Sarita. Sarita has been stalled in her healing journey and needs a boost. Today we sit together for a totally unscripted and unedited real time session, where we discuss the impact of early childhood abandonment and how it informs our lifelong coping strategies. One the these strategies that lends itself to a great deal of emotional repression is the "mask" we feel we must wear to appear a certain way to others. We fear that if our true selves are revealed, we might be abandoned once again. (The irony of corona-land and masks is not lost on us!) Join me, and the brave and lovely Sarita as we examine her life, and get her back on track for continued healing. My first ever VIRTUAL FULL WEEKEND RETREAT is live and on sale! With the cancellation of OMEGA, my guest instructors have rallied and we will be coming together to bring you an incredible weekend of connection, guidance and love on June 5-7, 2020. Click here for all the info! **INCLUDED IN YOUR RETREAT FEE IS A COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD OF MY ONLINE COURSE AS WELL AS ALL 4 OF MY ORIGINAL GUIDED MEDITATIONS** MORE RETREATS: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello my faves. Today on the pod we discuss the long history in my own life of people pleasing, and how it requires us to shut ourselves down to the point where we lose contact with who we are and what we need. The result of years of this behavior? Lots of pain and symptoms that are felt in our bodies, as our hearts simply have no more room to spare. Join me as we delve into exactly what people pleasing is, why we do it, and why it is so important to create a steam valve for the related feelings to be released. You may not be ready to change your people pleasing behaviors, which is fine, but there must be space for the YOU in your life, and I will help you make some. (Bonus performance by Charlotte Sachs at the end: The Ballad of Love and Hate by the Avett Brothers :) My first ever VIRTUAL FULL WEEKEND RETREAT is live and on sale! With the cancellation of OMEGA, my guest instructors have rallied and we will be coming together to bring you an incredible weekend of connection, guidance and love on June 5-7, 2020. Click here for all the info! **INCLUDED IN YOUR RETREAT FEE IS A COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD OF MY ONLINE COURSE AS WELL AS ALL 4 OF MY ORIGINAL GUIDED MEDITATIONS** MORE RETREATS: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are so many of us who walk this path of healing, and we are a diverse group. Today on the pod I interview Meredith Carpenter, a molecular biologist and lifelong believer in the western medical model, on her journey from confusion and despair to surgery, openmindedness, willingness, and healing. Meredith originally contacted me for a REAL TIME HEAL months ago. By the time I read her submission and got in touch, she reported that she was already healed from doing the work on her own! What a joy to interview her anyway. Meredith and I were able to talk about many facets of the healing path, as well as thoughtfully broach and debate whether or not back surgery is necessary, and engage in the kind of discourse which allows for each opinion to be honored. I'm sure there will be tidbits of wisdom for every one of us! Enjoy XOOX n. My New IGTV Series, "I Am Evidence" is now on Instagram @nicolesachslcsw. Search it up on Insta, and join me for more free content for your healing journey. VIRTUAL MINI RETREATS ON SALE NOW. FOR THE LATEST OFFERINGS, JOIN MY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY AS THEY SELL OUT TOO FAST TO ADVERTISE. Learn more about all of my work: RETREATS: My second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALE for August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video of last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hahaha. I know, you hate to journal. You feel the resistance, and you struggle to show up for yourself. We have all been there. Today on the pod I address this common struggle, and help you to understand what you are actually inviting into your experience when you dedicate yourself wholesomely to the work. I know it's hard, but we can do hard things... as my fave Glennon Doyle is always telling me in my head. We can, and we must! (if we want to heal.) Also today, I announce my new IGTV series, "I Am Evidence" now on Instagram @njsachs. Search it up on Insta, and join me for more free content for your healing journey. XOOX I hope this day finds you well. -n. VIRTUAL MINI RETREATS ON SALE NOW. FOR THE LATEST OFFERINGS, JOIN MY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY AS THEY SELL OUT TOO FAST TO ADVERTISE. Links also available on my RETREATS tab of my website. Learn more about all of my work: RETREATS: My second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALE for August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video of last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gabby Bernstein is an inspiration of the highest order - a person who not only seeks relentlessly to set herself free, but practices what she preaches with earnest willingness and passion. What a joy it was to connect with Gabby. I was originally introduced to Gabby's work in the days of my early sobriety when I read her book, The Universe Has Your Back, 5 years ago. It immediately resonated with me, as I knew intuitively that we were speaking the same language. In addition to changing my life personally, the story of her own TMS (which she didn't even know was TMS at the time!) showed me that my work was needed in this world, and encouraged me to get up every day and bring it to the global community. Today on the pod, Gabby and I sit down to discuss the ways in which her life has changed since discovering Dr. Sarno and my work, and the ways she can continue learning and growing. Gabby is more than a fellow spiritual teacher on this planet to me now - now I can call her a friend. How lucky I am.  XOOX enjoy... n. VIRTUAL MINI RETREATS ON SALE NOW. FOR THE LATEST OFFERINGS, JOIN MY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY AS THEY SELL OUT TOO FAST TO ADVERTISE. Links also available on my RETREATS tab of my website. Learn more about all of my work: RETREATS: My second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALE for August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video of last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has been postponed to October 18-23, 2020. Join me for a life changing experience on their stunning campus: 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast!  Click here . The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group: Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello my fellow shelterers in place! Welcome to the world of what the hell is going on. There are so many question marks in the world right now, but one certainty: we have time right now to figure out what's next for us. During a potentially stressful and frightening time, it might be tempting to retreat into our shells of fear, and choose to hold our breath and wish it to be over. But! We can also choose to encapsulate ourselves into a chrysalis of change and growth, taking this unique opportunity to make boldly healthy choices for ourselves despite natural, human resistance. Join me today for a conversation about this choice between mental and emotional "quarantine" versus "chrysalis", and how I am working it out in my own life. Perhaps you will be inspired to reexamine yours! Sending big love to you. XO be well. -n. VIRTUAL MINI RETREATS ON SALE NOW. FOR THE LATEST OFFERINGS, JOIN MY FACEBOOK COMMUNITY AS THEY SELL OUT TOO FAST TO ADVERTISE. Links also available on my RETREATS tab of my website. Learn more about all of my work: RETREATS: My second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALE for August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video of last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group:  Nicole Sachs' Support Circle OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices