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Maggie I feel like you’re the only person who gets what myself and so many others are going through. I’m so glad to have found you.

I’m not broken,my mind just doesn’t know it!

"We are trying to think our way through a physiological symptom."

Therapy is great for people who struggle with self awareness and difficulty understanding their emotional dysregulation. But it’s extremely frustrating for those of us who know the problems but yet still struggle wirh no real change. And in my area therapists charge $200+ per 40 minute session. The secret lies in increasing one’s sense of safety in the world. And what that looks like is different for everyone

Thank you for this video, Maggie. I've been in therapy for 10 years (off and on), I''ve tried different approaches, but nothing really worked. You showed that there is some hope, thank you.

Can I ever relate. It’s been so hard because for the first three years, I thought Covid did something very cruel to my nervous system. I was absolutely terrified everyday for years.  It’s videos like yours that are helping me regain my sanity.  Symptoms of inner tremors, to feeling completely out of control with my thoughts and feelings , insomnia, I thought I was going to go crazy.  These symptoms are no joke.   And it just doesn’t stop.  You keep thinking tomorrow will be better, it’s a living nightmare

I always had some level of anxiety, but I had it very much under control. I had hobbies, a job i enjoyed, friends and exercise. It wasn't until I got injured/sick that my anxiety went out of control. It was the continual dismissal and gaslighting from doctors that wore me down the most. The symptoms cause so much pain and limit my daily life drastically. It took two years to get the MRI that showed cervical spine and spinal cord damage. I've had doctors lie in my chart, scream at me in the office and tell me it was my fault medications weren't working. Recently, I had a lumbar puncture that went horribly wrong and I lost spinal fluid for over a week. All these horrible experiences have broken me down to an anxious mess. I now panic over the most basic things. I miss when I used to feel at peace in my body. I miss the time when I was healthy and never had to deal with doctors.

Everything you explained is me right now. I cannot tell you how much light I see in the darkness of my life right now. Thank you from the depths of my soul.

Dr. Claire Weekes old books are always the very best place to start in my mind. When my anxiety journey started it was back before Google etc, a bookstore on 5th Ave NYC, and TG I found her "Hope and Help for your Nerves' at least it gave me the knowledge of exactly what was happening to me, I thought I was going nuts!
So, I always thank her, she left us back in the 80's but she was the very best. She said about therapy 'it maybe be all very interesting to discover that your mother didn't love you enough, but you have anxiety now, and that's the current problem' She was the first advocate of 'Acceptance' and she was really revolutionary, the patron saint of anxiety sufferers. Unfortunately, I am a very sensitive person and consequently my anxiety symptoms have been with me forever. The more you fixate on the symptoms the more they persist.

Hi Maggie,
I recently started listening to you, and I’m really glad I found you. This video was a huge relief for me. I’ve been in therapy for five years, but I’ve always felt like I was in survival mode constantly exhausted in my body.
Over the past year, I’ve been struggling with depression and continuing treatment, but nothing has really changed. At this point in my life, I feel like I’m starting to understand how to regulate my body… or at least I hope so.
Thank you for your help. I hope you are doing well and staying healthy🎉

Maggie, THANK YOU! I am 68 years old and dealing with anxiety/depression going on 6 years as i was in the 2nd grade and given a mild tranquilizer. Nobody knew back then about anxiety,ptsd, ocd and the like. I’ve been in therapy most my life and nothing or nobody could help me. Being that you suffered and went through such darkness, i can certainly relate. I love your information about the sensitized nervous system, if only i knew this years ago! I have just existed and never felt joy or happiness in my life time. Thank you and God bless you as you are helping so many of us and a daily❤

Thank you so much. 🙏🏽
I intellectualise everything so talk therapy just pulled me further into that mode…..then I fell into a pattern of people-pleasing the therapist due to feeling so ashamed about not being able to sort my mind out with my mind!!!! A farcical & frustrating circle. These days, body-stuff is the only way. Thank you for speaking to us in such a valuable & compassionate way.
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Maggie, thank you soooo much, now I will cancel all my doctor's appointments without feeling scared, you gave me chills  all over my body!!

Great Video, My marriage of 8 years ended a week ago. My heart, decided to leave me, I love her so much and can’t stop thinking about her. I’ve tried my very best to get her back in my life, but nothing seems to be working. I’m frustrated, I don’t see my life with anyone else, we have been together since high school. I’ve done my best to get rid of the thoughts of her, but I can’t, I do not know why I’m saying this here, I really miss her and just can’t stop thinking about her.

Seeing this feels like looking into an American mirror all the way from Belgium (in Europe). Also CPTSD diagnosed after too many years in "danger" mode. Tried family systems, EMDR, reading so many books too and yes I am a tiny bit jealous you are further into healing than I am right now. So these videos are really helping me. Thank you for sharing! ❤

Thats why in mental stuff, and many more, like physiotherapy i believe people that went through something they are healing in their own lives. You know what you talking about. I have never felt so understood in the matter of anxiety in my entire life. Thank you!

Maggie GETS IT.

Really enjoying this channel. I remember telling my therapist that I don't have anxious thoughts, I just have anxious feelings, and she looked at me like I grew and extra head.

So loving your posts… I am not broken… and I don’t need fixing. I tried everything and now I am just feeling and loving it all. Loving me like no one else ever did.  I am just being with every sensation with love and welcoming it