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The Raelan Agle Podcast66: CFS-Free After 32 Years: Science-Based Cure (Anna Grear's Story)Send us a textAfter 3 decades and multiple relapses with ME/CFS, Anna Grear from Dorset, England, found her way back to vibrant health by blending science and spirituality.CONNECT WITH ANNA GREAR:🏠 Anna's Website - https://www.hypnocatalyst.com/🎙 Anna's Podcast (The Fatigue Files) - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2113402📸 Anna's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anna_grear📧 Interested in 1-1 work? Email Anna at hypnocatalyst1@gmail.com to book a discovery call for your custom program.🌟 Join Our Supportive Facebook Group! - https://www.facebook.com/groups/healingm...2024-12-0941 min
The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'Ancient Wisdom: Ayurveda, the Intelligences of the Body and Turmeric' — with Dr Shivani GuptaIn this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Shivani Gupta, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine. Through years of research and dedication, Shivani explored the incredible power of turmeric as a potent natural anti-inflammatory and later developed her own supplements powerful enough for doctors to recommend to their patients for every day use. In this rich conversation, Shivani's passion for wellbeing and for the amazing properties of Ayurvedic medicine shines through, as well as her understanding of the human body as a complex, intelligent system acted upon by incredible ancient practices of healing that lean into plant intelligence to...2024-11-2343 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'"Your Presence is Required" — Coming Home to Body and Self' — with Jana NormanIn this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Jana Norman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Jana has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, as well as, more recently, Long Covid. In this conversation Anna and Jana explore the role of the body, and of materiality itself, as way of receiving the wisdom of evolutionary intelligence at work in the body and the world. Their conversation covers the lived, bodily experience of fatigue; the exciting science of cellular intelligence; and spirituality in 'coming home' to body and self so key to healing. Expect a rich, ex...2024-10-0747 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Four Immeasurable Minds — a Hypno-Journey for Spiritual HomecomingSend us a textIn this bonus episode of the Fatigue Files podcast, you will travel (if you wish) through the four dwellings of ultimate love, leaving, at the end, with a felt-sense of commitment to the practice of dwelling in love, compassion, joy and equanimity. Simply rest back, and let yourself be taken on the journey. Please don't listen while driving or using any kind of machinery. You may well experience an altered state or a trance state. You might not, equally. It really doesn't matter. Just let your imagination play, and your unconscious p...2024-07-2324 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Lake of Light — A Hypnotic Journey into ExpansionA special bonus episode marking a gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of the Fatigue Files podcast. This is a hypnotic journey into a world of healing possibilities, drawing on imagination and suggestion. It elicits a sense of connection with a deeper sense of agency, inviting you into a more expansive sense of self, one who can co-construct your own experience. Listen with headphones on. Take the volume to a level where you are comfortable with the voice. Please don't use machinery or drive while listening to this recording. This recording is part of the Healing Tra...2024-06-0916 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearBody-Mind? Listening for the Body — with Anna GrearIn this episode, Anna reflects on the importance of understanding the centrality of the body as a sensing, capable field of aliveness and a highly evolved, highly intelligent field of meaning-making. She explores the Western myth of the body-mind split and challenges the sense in which some approaches to healing are almost echoes, no matter how well-meaning, of that older mythic structure. Is it time, she wonders, to drop the idea of a 'hyphenation' in bodymind and to move towards a much more entangled, dynamic sense of embodiment, the unconscious, and embodied knowing. Anna presents her reflections as an inv...2024-04-0932 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearEvolutionary Biology and the Basic Foundations of Wellbeing — with Shaun MoranHaving been diagnosed with CFS in 2012, Shaun Moran recovered using various layers of health optimisation science-based approaches. Shaun now works as a health and recovery coach and offers a program called the 'CFS-Free Recovery Program'. In this conversation, Shaun and Anna explore some (but not all) of the layers of health optimisation based in a fundamental respect for the evolutionary biology of the body and the science-led approach that draws on it. The health paradigm that Shaun and Anna lay out here together respects the human organism as a complex system of highly evolved intelligences, and the h...2024-03-2650 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearKundalini, Fatigue and Healing — with Frances GoodallFrances Goodall is a Wellbeing Coach, author, creator of the Lotus Process Video Series, a Sex and Pleasure Coach for Women, and a practitioner of Internal Family Systems and Family Constellations. She has extensive training in a range of modalities and can be reached via her website, listed below. In this conversation, Frances and Anna share their experiences with Kundalini processes drawn from their own autobiographical convergence between Kundalini awakening and their ME/CFS journey. Frances and Anna both work with people experiencing spiritual emergence phenomena, as well as on healing journeys from complex...2024-03-0738 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'Being Together': The Silent Healing Touch of Plants — with Matilda ArvidssonIn this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Matilda recounts her deep journey back from a desperate situation of deep fatigue, trauma and isolation. She had been, at one point, taken to the very edge of her sense of wanting to 'continue as a being'. Her journey back to life centrally involved plants as companions or kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The sheer life force of her plants, Matilda recounts, drew her back into life itself again. This is rich, intriguing conversation invites a refreshing appreciation of how healing our relationship with non-humans can be on...2024-02-1645 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearFascia, Flow and Healing — with Anna RaheAnna Rahe is an expert in fascia. She founded GST Body — a whole fascia conditioning system. She has been a somatic and lifestyle educator for over 20 years. She has run different body studios, lectured and taught around the world and spent time on faculty at the University of San Francisco. She enjoys working with all people and bodies ranging from professional and Olympic athletes to young children with scoliosis and paralysis. In this conversation, Anna and Anna explore fascia, its significance and the vital importance of coming into deeply into a sensing, attuned relationship with the body as a...2024-01-1851 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'In Their Own Voices — Glimpses From a Healing Transformation'In this bonus episode of The Fatigue Files, we hear from some of the participants on Anna's groundbreaking Healing Transformation Blueprint Program. The program attracts people who want to move beyond recovery into deeper layers of healing, wellbeing and transformation. Here, some beautiful souls on that journey share glimpses into a powerful, co-emergent healing process. Whether it is sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a night after 2 years of not sleeping, or breaking addictive habits, or conquering states of anxiety, or learning to be comfortable with discomfort, or experiencing a transformed sense of agency and self — these glimpses hold out ho...2024-01-0128 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearVagus Nerve Stimulation, Fatigue and Healing — with Dawn WileyDawn Wiley is running an incredible experiment in vagus nerve stimulation — using her own body as her primary field of experimentation. Dawn has come from a position of profound debility to a much more functional level of health through her determined exploration of a range of vagus nerve-stimulating technologies. She runs a Facebook group: 'AVA A Vagus Adventure' in which she generously shares information on the subject: https://www.facebook.com/groups/492041135346672In this deeply practical, rich and insightful conversation, Dawn shares her inspirational journey, the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches as she has experienced them, an...2023-12-0151 min
Evolving Spiritual PracticeAnna Grear: How to live well with Chronic Fatigue SyndromeAnna Grear has been living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) since 1989 which has seen her confined to her bed and house for extended periods of time where she was forced to go deep into her psyche. In this interview Anna describes the profound spiritual experiences associated with her condition, and the many practical skills she has learned in how to cope with CFS. We also discuss how fatigue is a metaphor and symptom of late stage capitalism.
Anna coaches people with CFS and also those wishing to deeply explore their sense of identity: for more information please v...2023-11-291h 49The Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearFatigue and Transfiguration — With Ava Dasya RasaIn this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with Ava Dasya Rasa, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Transpersonal Psychotherapist specialising in Trauma, Grief, and Contemplative Spirituality and Renewal. Ava is also an author, poet, speaker, teacher, and spiritual director. In this rich conversation, Anna and Ava first explore Ava's own journey with chronic and serious illness, before discussing trauma, the brain (especially a healing modality called brainspotting) and transfigurative transformation. Ava's website is here: https://dragonflytrauma.com/And her book Transfiguration: 30 Meditations Inspired by Transforming Trauma and Spirituality can be found here: https://www.amazon.co...2023-11-1842 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Emotional Drivers of Fatigue — with Heather McKeanHeather McKean is an experienced coach and healer. Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by reprogramming the brain's patterns. Mind Change is a collection of new, cutting-edge techniques that draws together a range of effective modalities to offer rapid change. In this conversation, Heather and Anna explore the emotional drivers of fatigue. There is a little sound distortion at times (at Anna's end) — so please forgive that! Feel free to send a text...2023-11-0346 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearMeditation, Healing and Awakening — with Ashok GuptaIn this episode, Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might not have heard Ashok speak like this before, even if you know his work.Ashok Gupta is well known to the community of people who are on the healing journey with fatigue. He is the founder and CEO of the Gupta Program, a celebrated recovery program that leverages neuroplasticity and mindfulness in a variety of ways. In this episode, Ashok also mentions his n...2023-10-0340 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearBreaking the Chronic Fatigue Cycle — with Sharon WirantLike many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal fatigue. Her condition was ignited by a ‘push through’ attitude that resulted in a chronic stress response in her brain and left her body vulnerable to infections, inflammation and fatigue. Sharon now works with others, helping them in their recovery journey. She has multiple degrees and coaching certifications: Bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience and in Biological Sciences, and a Master’s degree...2023-09-1546 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'The Breaking of the Shell' — with Elaine Walker with Anna GrearThe Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer)Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain, from The Prophet, and particularly this line, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding'.So many people who go through serious illness seem to encounter some sort of breaking of the shell. Anna describes her breaking, or breakthrough, as part of a rather frightening spiritual experience. Not something she would choose and yet something for whi...2023-08-2146 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearYour Amazing Reality-Shifting Brain — with Ben ElersWhat if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states? In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast. Ben is an innovation trainer and coach for 'disrupters and change makers — helping accelerate innovation by thinking and imagining in new ways — based on how your embodied brain actually works!' Anna and Ben explore the incredible reality-construction processes of the brain and its immense capacity for flexibility, change-making and in particular, the generation of 'choicefulness' — a key variable in healing processes. Towards the end of the con...2023-08-0245 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearLayer on Layer in Healing from Fatigue — with Patricia KolbeIn this episode, Anna speaks with Patricia Kolbe, who has had her own battle with debilitating chronic fatigue. Patricia is a coach on the Energy BluePrint Program (Ari Whitten) and the Gupta Program (Ashok Gupta). Patricia holds two master’s degrees and has completed five years of doctoral-level research training. She brings a fantastically wide set of skills, experience and knowledge to her work. She has done biomedical research, studied Eastern approaches to mind-body healing and is a committed spiritual practitioner. In this lively conversation, Anna and Patricia explore various layers of healing from fatigue and di...2023-07-1946 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearFatigue, Healing and Working with Dreams with Dr Terry Marks-TarlowIn this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist. In this conversation, Terry and Anna explore the rich allusiveness of dreams as a portal to the unconscious. Various themes emerge — but the core encouragement to all who suffer from complex fatigue is to work with dreams because such work can be truly transformative and healing.Terry is an author who writes on non-linear science, creativity, play and clinical intuition and is an expert in nonlinear dynamics and interpersonal neurobiology. Terry is also an artist, dancer and yogini.Feel free to send a...2023-07-0545 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Layers of Healing from Fatigue Conditions — with Dr Evan HirschIn this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch, the 'Energy MD' and founder of Fix Your Fatigue. Evan takes a multi-layered, highly systematic approach to the healing of fatigue. He has helped thousands of people recover. In this conversation, Evan discusses a range of practical themes fundamental to recovery and healing. His approach is all about finding the causes, matching them to the right treatment and navigating the setbacks in that process with skill and acceptance. He is absolutely certain that if the causes are all identified and address, the person will recover — and this has be...2023-06-1147 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'Thinking-With-Water': Fatigue and the Self (with Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos)The guest for this podcast edition is artist, fiction writer and academic, Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopolous. In this edition, Andreas and Anna play with the theme of 'thinking-with-water', reflecting on how such thinking might shed light on the experience of fatigue — and the self — as a lived experience. We reflect on the fluid nature of self, fatigue itself, and the transformations generated by fatigue. This is a richly multi-layered conversation full of exploration. Food for 'the mind' for those who want to taste something beyond fatigue-approaches-as-usual. To find out more about Andreas's work (of various kinds), you can find...2023-05-2635 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear'Body-Mind' v 'Physical' Approaches to Recovery (with Dan Neuffer)This episode features Dan Neuffer, author of CFS Unravelled: Get Well by Treating the Cause, not just the Symptoms of CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS and Related Syndromes. Dan is the creator of the ANS REWIRE Recovery Program. In this conversation, Dan and Anna explore the perceived dichotomy between 'body-mind' and 'physical' approaches to recovery from fatigue. They problematise the dichotomy in a conversation full of Dan's typically lively intelligence. Together, Dan and Anna frame body and mind as aspects of one lively system. They reflect on what follows from that framing for understanding fatigue illnesses, and on the p...2023-05-2651 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearChronic Fatigue, Grief and Grace — Grieving the Former Self (with Mary Tutaev)In this episode of the Fatigue Files, we hear from Mary Tutaev. Mary facilitates a Death Cafe in Bristol, England. She works extensively with the process of grief and its multiple dimensions. She has also suffered from ME/CFS. In this thoughtful conversation, Mary and Anna explore the various dimensions of grief as it emerges for those in the process of feeling that they are losing themselves in a chronic health condition. We also explore the newer self that emerges in the process of facing chronic illness. For more on Mary's death cafe, it can be found...2023-05-1149 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Paleo-Ketogenic Diet (with Dr Sarah Myhill)Dr Sarah Myhill is one of the best known authorities on fatigue recovery and has worked extensively on ME/CFS. The Paleo-Ketogenic diet is a diet she has used for over 20 years to help patients reverse various chronic conditions, including (and especially) ME/CFS. In this intensely practical conversation, she explains the advantages of this diet, its evolutionary appropriateness and the perils of eating sugars, high carbohydrate loads, dairy and grains. During this conversation, Sarah recommends four books, listed below. Apologies for the sound quality on Anna's side of the conversation. She really wasn't speaking from the b...2023-04-2041 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Healing Power of Awakening to the Body (with Rebekkah LaDyne)In this beautiful discussion, Rebekkah LaDyne and Anna Grear explore somatic sensing, presencing, and awakening to deep self-attunement to the body, including in meditation practices. This is a richly wise and nuanced discussion, deeply valuable to those suffering complex fatigue. The book mentioned is The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom by Willa Blythe Baker. To access Rebekkah's book The Mind-Body Stress Reset: Somatic Practices to Reduce Overwhelm and Increase Well-Being, go to this listing, and take your pick of access points: https://g.co/kgs/HRpaQMTo find out more about...2023-04-1444 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearIntuition and Healing — Trusting the 'Knowing' (with Dr Silvia Binder)In this episode we hear from Dr Silvia Binder. Silvia was declared clinically dead 5 times as a young woman, and received a powerful gift of intuition that she uses extensively and powerfully in her clinical healing practice. In this conversation, Silvia shares the importance of trusting 'the knowing' and living from intuition.Silvia is the CEO/President of the Ondamed Companies in New York, Germany, and Nigeria and she is the founder of The Binder Institute for Personalized Medicine in Germany. Silvia is also the Chief Medical Officer of Zymonetics (Canada), a contributing author for...2023-03-2640 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearAttachment, Self-Attunement and Healing (with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow)Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow is a Clinical and Consulting Psychologist with over 30 years professional experience behind her. Terry teaches clinicians how to tune into body, mind, brain, spirit and relationship. In this conversation, she discusses attachment, self-attunement and healing, the healing power of the imagination and more. Terry is an author who writes on non-linear science, creativity, play and clinical intuition and is an expert in nonlinear dynamics and interpersonal neurobiology. Terry is also an artist, dancer and yogini.Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfortunately, but...2023-03-1341 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearBody-Mind Healing and Somatic Self-Attunement (with Rebecca Tolin)In this episode we hear from Rebecca Tolin about her approach to healing and recovery. Rebecca is a mind-body practitioner who regularly helps people recover from chronic fatigue, pain and other mind-body symptoms through teaching, coaching and writing. Her approach is a convergence between science, somatic meditations and timeless wisdom — and all this comes through in this generous conversation.If you enjoy the approach taken in this podcast, think about joining the HypnoCatalyst NeuroCalm Community on Facebook to meet with like-minded co-travellers on the journey.Feel free to send a text! We can...2023-02-2344 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearFatigue, the 21st Century and a new kind of ‘I’ (with Anna Grear)In this episode, Anna Grear reflects on fatigue in relation to the 21st century's need for a new kind of 'I' apt for the complexity and challenge of the times. Weaving her own 'stark' journey from one kind of self to another in her own walk with ME/CFS, she suggests that those of us with fatigue simultaneously offer critique and hope to an exhausted world — that we are positioned to experience the emergent, complex 'I' now required if humans are to respond to the evolutionary shift underway in the pressurised present era. Feel free to send a te...2023-02-1318 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Power and Potential of Rest (with Fiona Agombar)In this episode, we hear from Fiona Agombar. Fiona is a yoga therapist, author and Rest Activist. She specialises in teaching live online yoga for all fatigue conditions. This includes CFS/ME, exhaustion, burnout from stress and Long-Covid. Fiona is the author of the popular book and DVD Beat Fatigue with Yoga, and Endless Energy. Her new book (with contributing editor Leah Barnett) Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burnout and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is aimed at yoga teachers, but anyone who has severe fatigue or stress will find this book has invaluable suggestions for healing fatigue.2023-02-0741 minThe Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearThe Healing Power of Forgiveness (with Barbara J Hunt)In this episode, we hear from Barbara J Hunt, a self-confessed forgiveness enthusiast. Barbara is also a coach in self-development and spirituality, as well as a bestselling author and musician.Barbara believes that forgiveness is like a forgotten superpower that we all have, but don't use, and that forgiveness can transform every relationship with have, including with ourselves. Forgiveness has a healing power that is scientifically proven and entirely transformative. In this conversation, Barbara describes forgiveness as a 'master spiritual practice' and is committed to 'forgiving everyone for everything all of the time'. Get your f...2023-01-2445 min
The Fatigue Files — with Anna GrearForest Bathing and the Healing Power of Trees (with Dr Jana Norman)In this episode of The Fatigue Files, Dr Jana Norman, a Certified Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, shares her passion for the healing intelligence of trees, forest bathing and the deep, relational connection between humans and nature. Jana's professional background is in community development, and she has degrees in psychology, theology and law. She's a university researcher with an interest in the human-earth relationship in law and the humanities. Jana is the convener of the Community of the Cosmic Person, a resource network for CoFlourishing of people, place, and planet, with an...2023-01-1144 min