1337: Nicole Sachs | How Your Nervous System Might Be Keeping You Sick

Mind Your Body (amazon.com/dp/0593716930/?tag=jordanharbing-20) author Nicole Sachs explains how pain is your brain's alarm, and why facing buried feelings can reverse symptoms once thought permanent.
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What We Discuss with Nicole Sachs:
• Pain is the brain's protective alarm, not a malfunction. The brain can both create and remove pain. It generates real symptoms to force you to slow down and stop returning to environments it has flagged as unsafe.
• Symptoms are real, but the source may be misdiagnosed. Chronic pain, IBS, migraines, fatigue, and long COVID aren't imaginary, but the nervous system — not the body part being treated — is often where the real trouble originates.
• A nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight produces physical illness. When the brain perceives constant "predators" — a hostile boss, money stress, unresolved trauma — it stays in survival mode, driving inflammation, muscle spasm, and nerve pain.
• Repressed emotion is read by the body as a threat. When difficult feelings go unseen and unfelt, the nervous system treats them as a predator — surfacing as flares, migraines, or chronic conditions long after the original event.
• You have far more power to heal than you realize. By learning the neuroscience and processing buried emotions through tools like JournalSpeak (yourbreakawake.com/journalspeak), people teach the nervous system it's safe — and many reverse chronic symptoms once thought permanent.
• And much more...
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