Mind Your Body: A Revolutionary Program to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety

After living with chronic lower back pain for almost 25 years and later developing other chronic conditions such as IBS and foot pain due to a diagnosis of neuromas I was feeling completely hopeless. When the back pain went to a new level in late 2024 I saw a new Orthopedic surgeon who took another MRI which determined I had advanced arthritis of my facet joints. I underwent two separate medial branch blocks sessions to determine my candidacy for a radiofrequency ablasion which I ended up having in December 2024. After weeks of hoping the procedure had worked I had no improvement at all. Then in late January I had what was the absolute worst episode of chronic back pain in my life. I thought the end of my life was near and that I had done some major damage this time. Recovery was very slow and then in February a brand new iteration of chronic pain occurred when the pain traveled from my lower back into my leg as sciatica and I couldn't walk. After an emergency visit to my Dr. for cortisone injections I was at my wits end and feeling very unhopeful about my future. Then miraculously a friend of mine recommended I listen to a podcast called The Good Life Project and Nicole Sachs was a guest speaker. I had hit rock bottom so I was ready to accept something brand new. After listening to Nicole I found myself traveling down the most beautiful, wonderful rabbit hole of mindbody science. I read Dr. Sarno's book Healing Back Pain and within days I was feeling better from what he termed the "Knowledge cure". Then I found Nicole's website and her podcast and I listen religiously. I accepted with open arms the 3 tenets of Nicole's amazing work...1) Believe 2) Do the work and 3) Patience and kindness for myself. I bought Mind Your Body and it so fabulously well written and easy to follow. I do my JournalSpeak daily for 20 minutes and then meditate for 10 minutes using a wonderful guided meditation podcast. I am only about 1 month in on my journey towards becoming pain-free but already my symptoms are over 80% GONE!!! The link between the mind and it's effect on the body was not difficult to get on board with. I have my BS in Psychology and my MS in Professional Counseling and although my life took a different turn and landed me in a different career, I fully embrace the mind body science. My next step will be to join Nicole's membership community as I believe that next step will take me 100% of the way towards becoming pain free. I am in awe every day when I wake up and just roll out of bed with no agonizing pain! When I feel a tinge of pain coming on I "wear it loosely" as Nicole always says. I invite it to hang out with me a little while and then I do the work to tell my brain I am safe and within a short period of time the tinge of pain is GONE! Thank you Nicole for everything you do. You have influenced my life in a deep way that I could never express fully in this review. I highly recommend this book to everyone living in chronic conditions.

This book will change your life. I am a constant seeker and have tried SO MANY conventional and alternative things to try to heal various symptoms including a chronic cough, digestive issues, insomnia, fatigue, back pain, and anxiety. I have done so much therapy (I even became a therapist myself!) and read so many books to try to heal myself from childhood trauma and a chronically dysregulated nervous system. To be sure, some things have helped, but never as much as when I found Nicole's work. I started listening to her podcast in the fall of 2024 and ventured into journal speaking shortly afterwards. At the time I was recovering from the acute trauma of a cycling accident that left me needing surgery to repair my severely broken and displaced clavicle and a serious concussion. The journal speaking and education I was getting from the podcast were tremendously helpful, but when I bought Mind Your Body the day it dropped, I found a new level of understanding, guidance, tips, and a step by step map for doing this work and it has accelerated the process tremendously. I highly, highly recommend. Even if you do not struggle with chronic pain, injuries, or symptoms, this book will teach you how to understand yourself and help you to overcome frustrating patterns and places where you have always felt stuck. It will help you to know exactly when you are going into fight or flight and to nip it in the bud before it causes symptoms to flair or unwanted behaviors to manifest. It will teach you how to do the work, and if you do it, it will help you to finally feel safe, peaceful, and alive. It is so much more than a cure for chronic pain.

Nicole's work pulled me out of a lifetime of pain, symptoms, and conditions. With a history of unexplained food sensitivities, IBS, SIBO, leaky gut, psoriasis, lower back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, and anxiety (just to name the big symptoms), I really believed my body was broken beyond repair and I was perpetually desperate for an answer to my ailments. Finding Nicole, JournalSpeak, and Mindbody healing has changed everything about the way I experience my life. I no longer life my life through the lens of fear. I now understand my emotions and how my brain was trying it's hardest to communicate it's fearful state in the form of these very real and debilitating symptoms. Today I'm free of chronic symptoms and live life without restrictions - food or otherwise. Above all else, the connection and trust I have been able to cultivate with myself is by far the greatest gift of this work. This book is a GEM and outlines an incredible path to healing. Reading it feels like the warmest of hugs from Nicole and succinctly gives an excellent background in brain science, as well as a path forward that will improve your physical and mental well-being. It is dose of equal parts education, treatment and preventative health for all humas, whether you are challenged with chronic pain, symptoms, conditions, or none at all. If you hear yourself in anything I've written, know you're not alone, this work is available to anyone with an open mind and little bit of curiosity. Thank you, Nicole, for bringing your life's work and your voice to the world!

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If you have been living with chronic pain, visiting doctor after doctor, trying pill after pill and alternative medicine to no avail, you will want to read Nicole's book. AND listen to her podcast. I started with the podcast last year, then took her course The Cure for Chronic Pain. I bought into the idea, but not all the way and dropped the work. I guess I just wasn't ready yet. In May, I had had enough of the chronic migraines and back pain and came back to her podcasts. The one that got me was "No One is Coming to Save You." It was the thing that turned the lock that opened the door. I resisted the book for a bit, but I'm glad I changed my mind and ordered it. Wonderfully written. It hits all of the right notes. When I find a book that makes me get out my pen to underline passages because I'll be going back to them, it means it's a winner. I then joined her online group and listen to her podcasts, sometimes again and again with the ones that really speak to me. The book really ties everything together so beautifully. I'm dedicated to doing the work now and I haven't had a migraine in two weeks and the back pain is improving. That's huge for me. Especially after I was able to stop taking the meds. Read the book. Do the work. It's like getting your life back. Thank you, Nicole!

It's not a gimmick. It's not another pill or exercise program. It's brain science! As a 14 year old, I "threw out" my back. As a 20 year old, I had exploratory surgery for unexplained wrist pain (and 2 more surgeries before 30). I've suffered from migraines, hip pain, pelvic pain and vulvadynia, and the classic bouts of back pain. I did all the tests, I was told I'm hypermobile and would likely always have these aches and pains. I was considered 60 - 70% disabled when i stumbled upon Nicole's podcast. She eloquently explains and elaborate the brain science we all already know (i.e. stressful days can end in headaches) and her JournalSpeak technique of unearthing and freely feeling all the life stress that has poured over into physical pain. With less fear and more feeling, I was canceling all my doctor appointments and weaning off the medications within 2 weeks. I remain free of chronic pain for almost 5 years now, have a beautiful child I never thought I'd be able to have biologically, and live my life with so much more joy. Nicole saved my life with her work and this book is the lifeline that so many people need

This book has the potential to change how we view chronic pain and illness and give the whole world a new perspective. I've spent the last four years going to countless doctors, physical therapists, acupuncture, massage, functional medicine specialist, pain management centers... and none of them could tell my WHY I was in so much back pain or HOW to get out of it. The mindbody view that pain results from stored trauma and nervous system dysregulation sounded like quackery to me in the beginning, but I am a believer now. While I still have some pain, it's gone from a 9-10 (where I could barely bend over to tie my shoes) to hardly noticeable on a daily basis - with no more pain meds or steroid shots. I have my life back, and it's thanks to Nicole Sachs and others who are practicing a mindbody approach and sharing it with the world. Nicole has written a book that not only explains the science behind the method, but gives you specific directions on how to do the work yourself to get out of pain, and offers real life examples of people who had given up on traditional medicine. If you've been told there's nothing wrong with you or that whatever IS wrong with you isn't curable, read this book with an open mind. It just might change your life.

The Mindbody work needs to get to you at the right time to make sense. But when it does…. thank God for Nicole’s life! With deep explanation and examples Nicole help guide us through all thats necessary to get better from chronic pain. It works! It takes time and effort and doing the work, but all the good things do too!

For over 25 years I suffered with significantly disabling chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain so severe at times I was housebound, vertigo and general dizziness, and various other depressing and horrible symptoms. I’m now living my life almost entirely symptom free (and still improving, 10 months in) and I’m happy in a way I have never been. So I can confidently say that I’m a success story of the Nicole Sach’s method. The method that Sach’s discusses in this book, Mind Your Body: a revolutionary program to release chronic pain and anxiety. You do not need to suffer. The truth is we have a deep misunderstanding of chronic pain and symptoms and this book addresses that, explaining the brain science and the nature of chronic conditions and nervous system dysregulation. A very important point about mind body medicine though. Our symptoms are real, this is not from the school of psychology that claims chronic symptoms are imagined. Nicole does not lecture and patronise the reader with notions of ‘wrong thinking’ and positivity, she is compassionate, passionate and constructive. She illustrates through her own story how sometimes our chronic symptoms even have a diagnosis, sometimes not, but either way we don’t have to suffer because there is actually a very simple solution. A paradigm shift. This book explains in an engaging step-by-step format what that solution is. Nicole’s confident tone is palpable, and the wisdom of her words from years of clinical experience is such that the reader is buoyed too. She asks only one thing of the reader initially - those both new and old to mind-body medicine - be curious. There’s plenty of scientific studies out there to back these methods, but be curious and let your body be your proof. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Try it, you won’t be the same again.

It's a wonderful books to learn so much about our nervoussystem and why journalspeak helps to regulate. Everyone should read!

Absolutely LOVED this book! I got the audio, loved it so much I had to have the hard copy also! So informative and helpful for myself with a new way of approaching my health and nervous system care. Love Journal Speak! The author shares the knowledge in such an approachable way.

This book changed my life. I have suffered from chronic headaches and neck pain for over 8 years, sometimes disabling and severly limiting my daily life. I recognized some patterns on when the pain would occur and was open to the idea that it is mind-body related, so when I started working with this book and reading all these success stories I finally had hope again that I can leave this pain behind. A few weeks in and I experience multiple days without pain whatsoever, something I never thought possible a few months ago!!! (: I can highly recommend this to anyone in a similar situation. Good luck!