Latest Myalgicencephalomyeltis Podcast Episodes
Why inspiration matters
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - January 19, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsTherapeutic Coach Alex Howard talks about the importance of finding ways to stay inspired on the recovery path, including listening to stories of people who have reached milestones or made recoveries over various hardships. Having the mindset that improvement or recovery might be possible change...
AMA Part 3
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - January 12, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex continues his Ask Me Anything list of questions from participants on Facebook and the Facebook Community Group - this week covering issues around how to afford treatment and deal with HR and benefits from work, building up confidence in stage 3 of recovery, and what can cause relapse after ...
New Beginnings
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - January 05, 2021 12:37 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratings"Courage isn't the absence of fear, courage is the ability to take action and keep moving forward in spite of the fear." On the eve of announcing the Fatigue Super Conference 2019, Alex shares a moment on the launching pad about taking risks and trying new things - and we hope you'll enjoy what'...
Set goals you can achieve
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - December 29, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAs we turn into the New Year and think about the goals we want to set, Alex gives advice on the kid of achievable goals that can be explored with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, and how to take into consideration what stage of recovery you are in to make realistic resolutions.
Dealing with overwhelm
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - December 22, 2020 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex addresses a common worry amongst patients - especially with the recent Fatigue Super Conference - that when starting a new program or course there can be a feeling of too much overwhelm. Alex offers some tips on how to tackle overwhelm and also shares his vision moving forward with new shor...
Surviving the Holidays
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - December 17, 2020 15:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex offers some tips on how to approach the holiday season as strategically as you can by communicating your needs, acknowledging your boundaries, pacing your energy and relax and have fun based on your protocols and parameters with where you are. (recorded 2018)
Ask Me Anything Part 2
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - December 09, 2020 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex answers questions directly from users on Facebook, discussing the achiever type and the inner critic, how to address anger and resentment with ME CFS, and ways to work with trauma other than EFT.
Why work with a practitioner?
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - December 02, 2020 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsSolving the individual puzzle of ME CFS and/or Fibromyalgia for each patient is a very complex problem in the personalised medicine approach. In this video, Alex explains why it would be beneficial to work with a practitioner specialising in interpreting tests and personalising your therapy for...
Ask Me Anything
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - November 25, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex takes questions from The Optimum Health Clinic community group about recovering from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia and updates about the work at the clinic. Alex answers a questions about the immune system response in ME CFS, the role of the maladaptive stress response, and gives an update on th...
Don't forget the big stuff
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - November 18, 2020 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex discusses the importance of taking a step back to look at the bigger habits or themes in our life that cause ongoing stress that need to be addressed. So many of the tools for recovery are small daily habits to help calm the nervous system and support the healing process - but larger proble...
The Power of Self Awareness
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - November 11, 2020 12:21 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsBeing able to understand our own issues, limitations, and challenges helps us find the best techniques to allow us to heal and grow. Having a lighthearted approach to ourselves, our faults and our weaknesses can empower us to have better relationships with ourselves and others. Alex suggests loo...
Do we need to fix everything to be well?
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - November 04, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this Facebook Live session, Alex dispels the idea that we have to become perfect before we can heal. There are SOME issues that will need to be resolved, or at least attended to to remove some blocks to recovery, and to get you into a healing state.
Healthy Living James' Recovery Story
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - October 28, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsJames became ill with ME CFS in 2010, so ill he was bed-bound and his father had to carry him to the hospital. With support from his family, James slowly has recovered to 85% over 9 years by listening to his body and pacing carefully, and is now sharing what he has learned about healthy eating w...
It's not what you do, it's the way you do it
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - September 08, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex talks about the difference between using the tools to feel better and focusing on the state of mind we are in while using them. Having an awareness of where we are emotionally can help us loosen the grip on the effort we are making and we can practice our tools from a better place mentally.
The OHC's approach to supplements
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - September 01, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex talks to Helen Lynam, previously the Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic, about our approach to supplements, why we recommend what we do, how individualised each patient's protocol is, and why we use the suppliers we do.
Use the carrot not the stick
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - August 25, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsMotivation is usually stronger when we are moving towards things that we want, versus trying to avoid negative consequences. Finding inspiration to move towards a reward will help you feel a lot clearer about your actions than trying to achieve something simply to avoid pain. Are you waiting for...
Paulie's recovery story
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - August 18, 2020 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsPaulie from the Netherlands shares her story and recovery journey through ME/CFS. Beginning as a teenager, Paulie suffered from anxiety, IBS and severe fatigue, which fluctuated for a few years before steadily becoming worse. A friend had told her about The Optimum Health Clinic when Paulie coul...
The boring middle way
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - August 11, 2020 11:37 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsFinding the balance between being sensible about our recovery and being very driven and disciplined with our tools can be a challenge. Navigating the healing journey requires a good awareness of our bodies and our needs in the moment and the ability to organise aspects of our lives that will kee...
Paddy's recovery story
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - August 04, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex talks to patient Paddy who at the time of this recording was in the late reintegration stage of the recovery process from ME/CFS. Paddy discusses the onset of his symptoms and what helped him most through working with The Optimum Health Clinic
The importance of support
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - July 28, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe isolation of chronic illness can change and reset many of our relationships. The people and activities that used to make sense for our life no longer fit the same way. Alex discusses the importance of making a conscious effort to build new relationships that fit the context of our life durin...
Commitment and Surrender
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - July 21, 2020 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsCommitment and surrender are two keywords that are essential in the psychological approach to healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. Both words can be a double-edged sword, and finding the balance in each is essential to being aware of achiever patterns and practising acceptance. Alex also addre...
Gemma's Recovery Story
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - July 14, 2020 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsGemma shares her recovery story with Alex, from starting to feel ill with a viral-like illness she couldn't recover from to acknowledging and working with her achiever patterns in order to relax and recover. Gemma shares what tools worked for her and how her sustained practice over a few years h...
Use technology don't let it use you
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - July 07, 2020 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsFounder of The Optimum Health Clinic Alex Howard discusses the benefits and pitfalls of technology as both useful and overly stimulating tools. The importance of being in a calm healing state is essential to recovery from ME/CFS and if you decide to practice mindfulness around your technology us...
Embrace the tortoise
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - June 30, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this week's Facebook Live, founder of the Optimum Health Clinic Alex Howard uses the fable of the tortoise and the hare as a metaphor for recovery from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. (recorded October 2018)
The boatload of recovery
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - June 22, 2020 12:56 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsJust as multiple factors often are involved when one falls ill with ME/CFS (the overloaded boat), the process of recovery also includes multiple factors, methods, and variables to re-build health. The practitioners of The Optimum Health Clinic use an integrative approach to craft individualised ...
We are all messed up
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - April 07, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsOnce we begin to do work on our own patterns and issues, we can feel like we're more "messed up" than other people - Alex reminds us that everyody has issues, but not everyone is looking at them or working on them. In working on your practices be kind to yourself and remember that nobody has eve...
You can't fill up someone else's emotional well
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - March 31, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsEnergy depleting relationships tend to follow a pattern of having to constantly support or hold up another person in a co-dependent relationship. Helper types tend to use their energy attending to other people before themselves. Alex discusses some ways to recognize if this pattern is taking pla...
The body's innate wisdom
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - March 24, 2020 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsBeing chronically ill can mean all of our conscious attention is usually on the things that are not working. Alex gives the suggestion to also give mindful attention to the things in the body that are still working properly.
5 stages of meeting our needs
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - March 17, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex Howard discusses understanding our own needs, including emotional needs, and how we might look to get those needs met. Alex discusses the tendency for Helper types to put other people's needs first and how we can start to prioritize our own. Once we recognize what we need, and learn how to ...
The importance of practices
Healing from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia - March 10, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 14 ratingsFollowing up on the importance of the basics, Alex discusses the importance of practices - the practical activities we need on a day to day basis to encourage the recovery process. He also emphasizes the importance of following different practices during the right time and stage of the recovery ...
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