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Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Episode #101- Survival Brain
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
This episode is all about how your brain functions in survival mode, and how survival brain actually changes your thinking.
The idea from the podcast was from a clip on Youtube by Jacob Ham called "Learning Brain vs Survival Brain." So since it's back to school time, I thought about how these survival states even affect our ability to learn.
In survival brain you do not like ambiguities and are prone to black and white thinking. You have a hard time seeing another perspective and you are afraid to make mistakes.
In learning brain you are able to see the big picture, and accept nuances in thinking. There is more receptivity, creativity and ability to connect.
And learning brain is the parasympathetic/calm state which is the "rest and repair" state for your body- where it performs at ultimate health.
So check out this episode for more about detecting survival brain and how to get to the learning brain state more often!
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![Episode #100 - Coaching on Pain](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Episode #100 - Coaching on Pain
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
In today’s episode I want to tell you about how I coach on healing chronic pain.
I merge PRT (Pain Reprocessing Therapy) with Life Coach tools and Nervous system regulation, for an amazing mix of learning and application into real life.
PRT teaches us to reframe and rewire the brain’s signals of pain, because pain signals are either amplified or decreased depending on how we react to them.
When the brain and nervous system do not interpret sensations in the body as dangerous, the brain produces less and less of them and chronic pain can be extinguished. (This is shown in the latest neuroscience research).
PRT tools include somatic tracking, detective for the opposite, graded exposure, and outcome independence. You can read more about them in detail in “The Way Out” by Alan Gordon, or listen to my Somatic Tracking and Graded Exposure Meditations on my previous Episodes.
The way I coach applies PRT tools by understanding your nervous system.
You can have all of the best tools, but if you are applying them in a way that puts you into a survival state, you add a lot of resistance to your healing.
I teach you to regulate your nervous system by finding those things that distract or feel fun. Finding calming thoughts or actions will help you get to the parasympathetic/calms state where your body can heal.
By learning to neutralize pain, process emotions, feel positive emotions on purpose, and read your body’s cues, you can become more embodied and intuitive.
You can use your body and your emotions to tune into your internal guidance system. This will help you make decisions and trust yourself.
If this approach is calling to you, I have amazing group options going on now! Check out Alignment Academy here:
https://betsy-jensen.mykajabi.com/alignment-academy-membership
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![Episode # 99- The Biology of Trauma with Dr Aimie Apigian](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Episode # 99- The Biology of Trauma with Dr Aimie Apigian
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Today I have a special guest on the podcast, Dr Aimie Apigian.
Dr Aimie is a leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and how to restore the body to it's best health.
We talk about the chronic effects of trauma on the nervous system, and ultimately the health of the body.
Dr Aimie sees all chronic health conditions relating more to dysregulation of the nervous system, rather than genetics or other factors.
"The nervous system is what drives our health"
Listen in for how trauma is stored in the body, what types of health concerns are most common, and what to do to heal trauma from the somatic and biological approach.
If you want more information about bridging the biology and somatic work in trauma, be sure and register for the upcoming "Biology of Trauma Summit" Aug 8-14, 2022. It's free and online, and has an amazing panel of speakers!
Register here: https://biologyoftrauma.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=31259
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![Episode #98- What if It’s Not?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Episode #98- What if It’s Not?
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Here is a question that I heard a lot this weekend at the coaching retreat I went to- "What if it's not?"
The survival brain will want us to focus all of our energy on figuring out all of the bad things that could happen and to prevent them.
So it quickly forms habits of what foods or activities, physical things, or situations to avoid.
The Reticular Activiating System in our brain is designed to focus on only seeing things in the environment that fit our beliefs, and ignore what doesn't.
So by asking "what if it's not", it's like taking off the blinders you have been wearing that you think are keeping you safe.
If you want to move out of survival mode and in to purposeful living, healing, and creating, start asking more of the question, "What if it's not?"
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![Episode #97- Top 3 Things To Do if you have Chronic Pain](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Episode #97- Top 3 Things To Do if you have Chronic Pain
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
There's a lot of information out there if you have chronic pain!
So in this episode I wanted to simplify the three main concepts that I have found most important in getting out of chronic pain or disease.
1-Detective for the Opposite- This is the best place to start, by changing what you focus on
2-Understanding and Regulating the Nervous System- Notice when your body is in a survival state and develop a toolbox to use to regulate. The techniques can be top-down (thought based), or bottom-up (somatic).
3-Compassion- Self compassion in the process can be the most challenging, but necessary part.
Listen now for more details!
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![Episode #96- Becoming More Satisfied](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Episode #96- Becoming More Satisfied
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Get out of living in survival mode and start to regulate your nervous system by becoming more satisfied!
Many of us have an underlying belief that we need to be hard on ourselves to improve. So we train ourselves to look for problems or flaws, rather than feeling satisfied.
But what I want to propose is that feeling more satisfied is actually the best way for you to evolve and grow!
Looking for problems to fix puts us into a survival state, whereas the parasympathetic/calm state (where you feel satisfied) is where the nervous system is regulated.
When the nervous system is regulated, you are more receptive, creative, able to learn, and able to connect with others.
True growth does not come from beating ourselves up or looking for things we dislike in the world and then finding more problems to fix.
When we feel more satisfied and aligned with our true selves, we will be able to move on the path of growth and evolution with less resistance and with more ease.
Plus being satisfied feels so much better in your body!
Listen in to learn about becoming more satisfied!
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Wednesday May 18, 2022
Episode#95- Expand/Contract
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Expand- Contract
This is a principle of growth I first learned about from Peter Levine and Trauma Healing.
He talks about how expansion is followed by contraction, and that this is the normal process of growth.
When I found out everyone who had been with me at the Peter Levine retreat had a week of contraction when we came back to real life, I started noticing this principle other places.
With chronic pain this principle can be called “symptom imperative” (Sarno) or “extinction bursts” (Alan Gordon). Basically when you start healing, there can be a flare up or a new symptom that shows up.
The Upper Limit Problem, as described by Gay Hendricks in “The Big Leap” is an example of how we may sabotage ourselves when we reach levels of success that are uncomfortable for us.
There is a way of stretching in Physical therapy, called contract-relax. And yin yoga is a restorative yoga.
There are many examples of expansion and contraction as a normal way of growing, so be compassionate with yourself along this journey when there are natural ups and downs!
Listen here to learn more!
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![Episode #94- Acute Back Pain](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Episode #94- Acute Back Pain
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
This episode is all about what I did (and thought) when I had a sudden incidence of severe back pain a few days ago.
I talk about kinesiotape, how to handle a new pain, and all of the ways I could see it was neuroplastic despite feeling real.
Right after my back pain ended, I got sick. So I talk to you about the judgement of myself I had with that more than the back pain.
All in all, I am glad to be on the other side of it! But I learned a lot!
If you ever wonder what to do with a new pain or symptom, this episode is for you!
Link to video about taping my back: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcvgnqjALZb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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![Episode #93- How I Cured My Incontinence](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6968216/Copy_of_Copy_of_Copy_of_Unstoppable_fiyjqu_300x300.png)
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Episode #93- How I Cured My Incontinence
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
I wanted to share this episode about the techniques I have found helpful in getting rid of my urinary incontinence.
As well, you can see the process of my journey- being curious, open to information, taking what worked for me, and being open to my own inspiration for new ideas.
For me, there were a combination of physical and mental techniques I used to get this result.
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Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Episode #92- The FIT Criteria- How to ”Rule- in” Neuroplastic Pain
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Here are the FIT Criteria- From Dr Howard Schubiner's book "Unlearn Your Pain".
The FIT Criteria are general ways that neuroplastic pain behaves, that are different than if pain was structural.
You do not have to answer yes to all of these, with just one there is a good chance your pain can be rewired with this method.
When you start proving to yourself that your pain is neuroplastic, you can retrain your brain and nervous system to produce less pain.
Here are Dr Howard Schubiner's FIT Criteria:
FUNCTIONAL: (Symptoms do not fit with known structural conditions)
-Symptoms began without a physical precipitation
-Symptoms persist after an injury has healed (3-6 mo)
-Symptoms are in a distribution pattern that is symmetric
-Symptoms occur on one whole side of the body or occur on half of the face, head, or torso
-Symptoms spread over time to different areas of the body
-Symptoms radiate to the opposite side of the body or down a whole leg or arm
-Symptoms that occur in many different body parts at the same time
-Symptoms that have a quality of tingling, electric, burning, numb, hot or cold
INCONSISTENT: (Symptoms vary in ways that the structural condition would not)
-Symptom shift from one location in the body to another
-Symptoms are more or less depending on the time of day. Or they occur first thing in the morning or in the middle of the night
-Symptoms occur after, but not during, an activity or exercise
-Symptoms occur when one thinks about them or when someone asks about it
-Symptoms occur when stresses increased or one thinks about stressful situations
-Symptoms are minimal or nonexistent when engaged and joyful or distracting activities, such as when on vacation
-Symptoms are minimal or nonexistent after some kind of therapy, such as massage, chiropractic, Reiki, acupuncture, an herbal or vitamin supplement
TRIGGERED: (Symptoms are brought on by stimuli that would not actually cause the symptom physically, but they activate the brain to generate the symptom)
-Symptoms are triggered by things that are not related to the actual symptom, such as foods, smells, sounds, light, computer screens, menses, changes in the weather
-Symptoms are triggered by the anticipation of stress, such as prior to school, work, a doctors visit, a medical test, a visit to a relative, or a social gathering; or during those activities
-Symptoms that are triggered by simply imagining engaging in the triggering activity such as bending over, turning the neck, sitting or standing
-Symptoms that are triggered by light touch or innocuous stimuli, such as the wind or cold
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