Latest Chrysalis effect Podcast Episodes
Retrain Your Brain - Different approaches to CFS/ME recovery
Rebel Health Radio - July 11, 2024 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingExplore with me the multi-dimensional nature of complex chronic exhaustive conditions and how you can heal. See also Raelan Agle's fabulous channel @RaelanAgle and The @crappychildhoodfairy 00:00 intro and importance of the mind in Recovery - which can and does happen! 02:12 CFS/ME is not a...
How the Brain Creates Pain and how that differs from tissue damage pain
Rebel Health Radio - July 11, 2024 08:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTalking about pain from a mindbody perspective and how to heal. 00:00 Intro and why I'm talking about pain today 01:30 how to treat acute pain relating to tissue damage and shock (held in the body) 05:20 acute vs. chronic pain - pain that doesn't resolve itself after 3 months - neuropathic or '...
The Divided Mind - Dr Sarno's revolutionary take on the unconscious origins of mindbody disorders
Rebel Health Radio - July 11, 2024 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere I review the understanding put forward in the book The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno as long ago as 2006. Doctor Sarno was one of the first medical doctors to embrace the idea of psychosomatic medicine which he dubbed mind body disorder to avoid the negative connotation that psychosomatic w...
What REALLY causes CFS/ME - and how to heal it psycho-spiritually - A therapist's view
Rebel Health Radio - June 12, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy commentary on the insight and understanding of healing ME/CFS as a spiritual disconnect that nevertheless has physical consequences. I draw on an interview between Jenny Lynn and Raelan Agle as well as my own experience as a therapist for over 15 years. See that here https://www.youtube.com/w...
Recovery from Chronic Disease is NOT about 'Fixing the Problem'- A New Paradigm of Healing
Rebel Health Radio - June 12, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecovery from chronic disease or conditions is not about fixing the problem. How the experience of Craig McKinley's sepsis and the work of Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Nicola Singleton and John Campbell has informed my work. Here's the interview with Nicola and Dr Chatterjee where she talks of what s...
Dealing with Trauma - The SHOCK loss of Michael Mosley Triggers an Outpouring of Grief and Disbelief
Rebel Health Radio - June 12, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy reaction to the death of TV presenter and doctor Michael Mosley was one of deep sorrow and shock despite not knowing him personally. I was stunned by the unnecessary loss but also realising I was reacting to an event that happened to me 40 years ago!! Find out how here. 00:00 Nature of Traum...
Reviewing Gabor Mate's Extraordinary New Book: The Myth Of Normal
Rebel Health Radio - May 22, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy is this groundbreaking book so important? Here's my view... 00:00 Intro and Dr Mate's background 02:00 A leading light in emotional trauma awareness- and his personal experience of childhood trauma 03:44 Synopsis of chapters and the general direction of the book - disconnect from the self, ...
Iain McGilchrist What's the Matter with Medicine Commentary - Part 2
Rebel Health Radio - May 14, 2024 22:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University. for the original lecture go here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk 00:00 Intro to what's the matter with medicine in a left-brain world of disconnect - toxic world vs. 01:55 The importance of attent...
The Unique Ways Men Handle Stress: An Insight Into Men And Therapy
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMen and women - the difference in how stress operates and how it manifests. And why men are less likely to admit they need help See this article for more details on gender differences in neurobiology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425245 00:00 The stress response in men and women...
Lessons From Amy Winehouse & Gabor Mate: Regulating Your Nervous System
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLessons from the life and untimely death of Amy Winehouse after watching the movie Back to Black and also reading The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. How nervous system dysregulation plays out in the life and how it inevitably takes its toll as we seek to calm our nervous system in any way we can....
Transforming Trauma | Microdosing Psilocybin | Healing Trauma With Psychedelics/EMDR/Altered States
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFind out how to transform past experiences so that you can move forward in life without sabotaging yourself. An update on my microdosing months 3 after 1 month off Also how I've noticed EMDR works similarly to psychedelics. For the start of my microdosing journey go here https://youtu.be/841soW...
What's Wrong with Medicine - Iain Mc Gilchrist & Importance of Right Brain in Wholistic Healing
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy commentary on the lecture given by Iain McGilchrist yesterday to McGill University. for the original lecture go here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REB7GOxX5Mk 00:00 Iain is a unique voice in that he marries the humanities (philosophy) and science (medicine) which gives him a broad view of ...
Being Vulnerable is HEALTHY | Unlock Your Creativity & Boost Self-worth By Embracing Vulnerability
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI've become aware that vulnerability is key to true creativity - you cannot create something new without risk. Find out how I've discovered this in my own life and work - with the help of some others who've explored this - Brene Brown, Gabor Mate and King Charles!! 00:00 Intro to Vulnerability ...
The Perils of AI - Artificial Intimacy and Social Media | The Wisdom of Esther Perel and Brene Brown
Rebel Health Radio - May 08, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this commentary on the words of Esther Perel and researcher Brene Brown I delve into how AI is creating a mental health crisis. Not Artificial intelligence but Artificial Intimacy!! Intimacy and Connection are crucial to healthy human expression but our relationships are being co-opted and di...
Working with Emotion | The Influence of Virginia Satir in Healing Relationships and Life
Rebel Health Radio - March 27, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPsychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) remains one of the most influential family therapists there have ever been but she is virtually unknown now outside of psychology. She taught the importance of feelings over thoughts and blew the current understanding and practice out the water with h...
How to Change your Mind | Book Review of Michael Pollan's The New Science of Psychedelics
Rebel Health Radio - March 27, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this audio I describe this ground-breaking information on how to heal with psychedelics from the book How to Change your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan. The article I mention By Robin Carhart-Harris on The Entropic Brain on psychedelics is here https://www.frontiersi...
Anxiety is not a sickness it's a back brain threat reaction - How to soothe and heal
Rebel Health Radio - March 07, 2024 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnxiety is not a disease in the sense that doctors describe. It is a message from the body that something in your environment feels unsafe. For original article I'm commenting on go here. https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/six-steps-to-managing-anxiety/ 00:00 Intro - everyday trauma impacts th...
Enhancing Energy Metabolism | Is Methylene Blue the Magic Bullet for Chronic Neurological Diseases?
Rebel Health Radio - March 04, 2024 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA new 'Magic Bullet' that few people know about (including your doctor!) ... The importance of Methylene Blue and how it might transform human health particularly in areas of low oxygen delivery (fatigue states, depression and neurological damage). Check out the original recording with Dr Gonal...
Biopsychosocial Healing - The Importance of MindBody Unity. Update on MethyleneBlue and Hormone Harmony
Rebel Health Radio - March 04, 2024 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHealing needs the body AND the mind to be engaged with a multifactorial approach. Modern medicine ignores this and concentrates on a single solution which often creates unwanted side effects. Using a biospsychosocial approach makes much more sense. Find out how to take back control of your heal...
The Stamets Protocol - Microdosing Psylocibin and how Mushrooms May Yet Save the World
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy journey with microdosing and how therapeutic doses help heal our relationship with ourselves and Nature. Please note to date drug laws prevent me talking about sourcing. See Paul's 2023 update on his 2009 talk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qry8K7KPHIQ If you'd like to start with the...
Microdosing Journey 4 - Making Connections and Community
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this update into week 6 of my psilocybin microdosing journey I notice how I am revisiting lessons from the past, investigating A Course in Miracles (doing the workbook) and changing my practice to be more empathic. As part of my learning I am researching mushrooms and their uses. I refer yo...
My Microdosing Journey 5 - Week 8 of Psilocybin mushrooms. Surprising Findings....
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI describe the ongoing surprising revelations in this week 8 video from a holistic therapeutic perspective. Coming to a break point it's time to assimilate the learning. Some surprising conclusions in this healing journey of a middle-aged psychonaut.. Stamets stack protocol with niacin (vitamin...
Finding Joy and Meaning through Community - Book Review - The Road to Character by David Brooks
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere i am reviewing and interpreting the book The Road to Character by David Brooks. How we find meaning and authentic expression in life is not through avoiding suffering but how we deal with our subsequent demise. Whether through illness or other struggles we all need eachother to help pick o...
Microdosing 2 - Enhancing your Meaning and Sense of Belonging to Matter in a Disconnected World
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUpdate on week 2 in the microdosing experiment with psilocybin PLUS a discussion of 'The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis' with Iain McGilchrist, Daniel Schmachtenberger and John Vervaeke. In this video I discuss my changing experiential awareness when on microdoses of psyilocybin and ho...
Microdosing Journey 3 - Nature Connectedness and Hope for a Healed World - How Fungi Change your Mind
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this update into week 4 of my journey I notice not only the sensory changes but also perceptive ones. Feeling part of something bigger.... find out how it's affected me and what I'm learning as part of this journey. Week 4 of psilocybin microdosing. 00:00 Intro to microdosing 01:00 Awarenes...
The Value of using EMDR in releasing Birth Trauma
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere I look at Birth Trauma and how it affects everyone (not just women who give birth!). Birth is the single most important event in everyone's life and how it happens determines the quality of our lives - especially in the area of health and wellbeing. It shapes the understanding of ourselves ...
How Empaths Struggle with People Pleasing - why we do it and how to change
Rebel Health Radio - January 26, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow empaths (highly sensitive people) become people pleasers who fail to get their emotional needs met. The roots lie in childhood attachment. How you can change this pattern. 00:00 Intro and why most of my clients are empaths/ HSPs 01:46 Trauma is difficult to process in childhood - and needs ...
Putting back the Soul into Medicine - the promise of psychedelics and plant medicines
Rebel Health Radio - November 27, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBringing back the soul into medicine - how modern medicine has lost its soul and creates all sorts of negative results which are bankrupting the healthcare profession both monetarily and in terms of doctor's purpose and meaning. But plant medicine offers a way to bring that back and may yet over...
The Genie in your Genes 2 - Book Review and Summary Continued. Genius Book!
Rebel Health Radio - November 27, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this follow up to my review of the classic book The Genie in your Genes by Dawson Church, I describe the innovations in energetic medicine interventions. the last 6 chapters of the book cover comprehensively a new approach to healing outside the conventional medical paradigm and propose new s...
Empaths and Clairvoyance - Is it just High Sensitivity & the Pineal Gland? Nicky Alan's supreme gift
Rebel Health Radio - November 27, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI talk about how Empaths at the extreme end of high sensitivity may have the gift of clairvoyance. Whether you think it's a scam or not, there are examples of people who do this for a living and also help the police (unofficially) to solve murders. I use the example of famous medium Nicky Alen w...
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