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A podcast that explores fatigue conditions from as many angles as possible, while pushing the boundaries of thinking about fatigue as a signal to the 21st century and beyond. What is fatigue saying? How is it linked to shifts in contemporary consciousness around spirituality and health? How can we heal from fatigue conditions?
"This is really an exceptional podcast — such rich conversations and so expansive and deep. I'm learning so much": FM
Hosted by Anna Grear, host of the NeuroCalm Fatigue Summit.
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1In this episode, Anna and Dr Maya Shetreat (MD, neurologist and ceremonialist) discuss the incredible more-than-human intelligences of plants, cells, mitochondria and more. This is a truly exciting, deep and exploratory conversation in which Maya offers multiple mind-expanding insights. Together, Anna and Maya explore master plants, human and plant kinships and the intimacy of respiratory exchanges. They also explore the power of more-than-cognitive knowing, the potency of Indigenous scientif...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch (the Energy MD), who has helped thousands recover from Long Covid and ME/CFS. The conversation raises some fascinating points: how Long Covid can be understood as ME/CFS with a different viral trigger; how the nervous system and mitochondria are not 'dysfunctional' but highly functional, intelligent and communicative. Evan covers the 5 main causes of complex fatigue conditions, and the conversation moves through the difference between nervous s...
In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with her friend and colleague Jack Strömer. Jack has his own walk with chronic fatigue syndrome and a deep practice of Zen meditation. In this conversation, Anna and Jack explore the invitational nature of illness in relation to spiritual maturation. Themes of curiosity, openness, allowing and the intimacy of 'not knowing' all emerge at different points in this rich, thoughtful exploration. Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfor...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Shivani Gupta, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine. Through years of research and dedication, Shivani explored the incredible power of turmeric as a potent natural anti-inflammatory and later developed her own supplements powerful enough for doctors to recommend to their patients for every day use. In this rich conversation, Shivani's passion for wellbeing and for the amazing properties of Ayurvedic medicine shines through, as well as her understanding of th...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Jana Norman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Jana has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, as well as, more recently, Long Covid. In this conversation Anna and Jana explore the role of the body, and of materiality itself, as way of receiving the wisdom of evolutionary intelligence at work in the body and the world. Their conversation covers the lived, bodily experience of fatigue; the exciting science of ce...
In this episode, Anna reflects on the importance of understanding the centrality of the body as a sensing, capable field of aliveness and a highly evolved, highly intelligent field of meaning-making. She explores the Western myth of the body-mind split and challenges the sense in which some approaches to healing are almost echoes, no matter how well-meaning, of that older mythic structure. Is it time, she wonders, to drop the idea of a 'hyphenation' in bodymind and to move t...
Having been diagnosed with CFS in 2012, Shaun Moran recovered using various layers of health optimisation science-based approaches. Shaun now works as a health and recovery coach and offers a program called the 'CFS-Free Recovery Program'. In this conversation, Shaun and Anna explore some (but not all) of the layers of health optimisation based in a fundamental respect for the evolutionary biology of the body and the science-led approach that draws on it. The health paradigm that Shau...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Matilda recounts her deep journey back from a desperate situation of deep fatigue, trauma and isolation. She had been, at one point, taken to the very edge of her sense of wanting to 'continue as a being'. Her journey back to life centrally involved plants as companions or kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The sheer life force of her plants, Matilda recounts, drew her back into life itself again. This is rich, intriguing convers...
Anna Rahe is an expert in fascia. She founded GST Body — a whole fascia conditioning system. She has been a somatic and lifestyle educator for over 20 years. She has run different body studios, lectured and taught around the world and spent time on faculty at the University of San Francisco. She enjoys working with all people and bodies ranging from professional and Olympic athletes to young children with scoliosis and paralysis. In this conversation, Anna and Anna explore fascia...
In this bonus episode of The Fatigue Files, we hear from some of the participants on Anna's groundbreaking Healing Transformation Blueprint Program. The program attracts people who want to move beyond recovery into deeper layers of healing, wellbeing and transformation. Here, some beautiful souls on that journey share glimpses into a powerful, co-emergent healing process. Whether it is sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a night after 2 years of not sleeping, or breaking addictive...
Dawn Wiley is running an incredible experiment in vagus nerve stimulation — using her own body as her primary field of experimentation. Dawn has come from a position of profound debility to a much more functional level of health through her determined exploration of a range of vagus nerve-stimulating technologies. She runs a Facebook group: 'AVA A Vagus Adventure' in which she generously shares information on the subject: https://www.facebook.com/groups/492041135346672 In this deeply practic...
In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with Ava Dasya Rasa, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Transpersonal Psychotherapist specialising in Trauma, Grief, and Contemplative Spirituality and Renewal. Ava is also an author, poet, speaker, teacher, and spiritual director. In this rich conversation, Anna and Ava first explore Ava's own journey with chronic and serious illness, before discussing trauma, the brain (especially a healing modality called brainspotting) and transfigu...
Heather McKean is an experienced coach and healer. Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by reprogramming the brain's patterns. Mind Change is a collection of new, cutting-edge techniques that draws together a range of effective modalities to offer rapid change. In this conversation, Heather and Anna explore the emotional drivers of fatigue...
In this episode, Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might not have heard Ashok speak like this before, even if you know his work. Ashok Gupta is well known to the community of people who are on the healing journey with fatigue. He is the founder and CEO of the Gupta Program, a celebrated recovery program that...
Like many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal fatigue. Her condition was ignited by a ‘push through’ attitude that resulted in a chronic stress response in her brain and left her body vulnerable to infections, inflammation and fatigue. Sharon now works with others, helping them in their recovery jo...
The Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer) Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain, from The Prophet, and particularly this line, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding'. So many people who go through serious illness seem to encounter some sort of breaking of the shell. Anna describes her breaking, or breakthrough, as part of a rather frighten...
What if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states? In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast. Ben is an innovation trainer and coach for 'disrupters and change makers — helping accelerate innovation by thinking and imagining in new ways — based on how your embodied brain actually works!' Anna and Ben explore the incredible reality-construction processe...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Patricia Kolbe, who has had her own battle with debilitating chronic fatigue. Patricia is a coach on the Energy BluePrint Program (Ari Whitten) and the Gupta Program (Ashok Gupta). Patricia holds two master’s degrees and has completed five years of doctoral-level research training. She brings a fantastically wide set of skills, experience and knowledge to her work. She has done biomedical research, studied Eastern approaches to mind-body he...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist. In this conversation, Terry and Anna explore the rich allusiveness of dreams as a portal to the unconscious. Various themes emerge — but the core encouragement to all who suffer from complex fatigue is to work with dreams because such work can be truly transformative and healing. Terry is an author who writes on non-linear science, creativity, play and clinical intuition and is an expert in nonline...
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch, the 'Energy MD' and founder of Fix Your Fatigue. Evan takes a multi-layered, highly systematic approach to the healing of fatigue. He has helped thousands of people recover. In this conversation, Evan discusses a range of practical themes fundamental to recovery and healing. His approach is all about finding the causes, matching them to the right treatment and navigating the setbacks in that process with skill and acceptance. He is absolutel...
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