127. Not Every PPPD Recovery Is Fast: Sheena's Success Story

If you're struggling with PPPD, chronic dizziness, visual vertigo, or frustrating setbacks that keep you feeling stuck, this recovery story reveals how moving beyond physical exercises to address the deeper emotional layers can lead to lasting healing. In this episode, Sheena shares her long recovery journey with persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) and visual motion sensitivity. What began as brief spinning episodes evolved into constant, life-disrupting sensations—feeling like walls or shelves were moving, difficulty walking straight, intense panic in grocery stores, and trouble driving on highways. After normal medical workups, Sheena tried vestibular rehab (VOR exercises) and vision therapy for binocular vision dysfunction. While these offered temporary breakthroughs, stress, grief, and a major post-COVID flare brought her symptoms back. True transformation happened when she found The Steady Coach, began using somatic tracking and graded exposure, and did the deep emotional work of shifting her relationship to anger, frustration, and symptom "dips." Today, Sheena is fully back to living life—skating, long bike rides, and attending loud concerts without fear. What You'll Learn: • The evolution of PPPD, visual vertigo, and motion sensitivity • The benefits and limitations of vestibular rehab and vision therapy • Why COVID, stress, and grief trigger severe dizziness relapses • How somatic tracking and graded exposure retrain the nervous system • The critical connection between unexpressed anger, frustration, and symptom cycles • How to safely expand your world and return to driving, stores, and crowded events Timestamps:00:00 (youtube.com/watch?v=a2GCpdQo0U8) Intro03:14 How it began08:56 Vestibular Physio Answers13:05 COVID Relapse Spiral14:15 Vision Therapy Breakthrough17:19 Stress Brings It Back20:41 Finding PPPD Online23:22 Recovery Tools That Helped26:03 Relapse And Anger Work30:36 First Concert Breakthrough37:48 Bike Rides and Community Wins41:41 Redefining Recovery and Dips46:42 Sitting With Anxiety49:21 Faith as an Action51:59 Daily Practices for Anger57:50 Closing and Thanks Resources & Links: Learn more about Dr. Yonit and The Steady Coach: [thesteadycoach.com](https://thesteadycoach.com) Free Course for Dizziness Recovery → [thesteadycoach.com/free-course](https://theste…) Steady Coach Group Coaching → [thesteadycoach.com/standard-c...](https://thes…...) Subscribe for weekly videos on chronic dizziness recovery, PPPD, visual vertigo, vestibular migraine, nervous system regulation, and somatic tracking. If this video gave you hope, please LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE it with someone navigating dizziness recovery. #PPPD (youtube.com/hashtag/pppd) #ChronicDizziness #VisualVertigo (youtube.com/hashtag/visualvertigo) #DizzinessRecovery #VestibularRehab (youtube.com/hashtag/vestibularrehab) #SomaticTracking (youtube.com/hashtag/somatictracking) #TheSteadyCoach (youtube.com/hashtag/thesteadycoach) #NeuralCircuitDizziness #NervousSystemHealing #VestibularMigraine
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