S5 E11 | How To Trust Yourself, with Anna Holtzman, LMHC

Anna Holtzman is a true mentor of mine. She’s a therapist and coach. Anna’s helped many, many clients out of chronic pain and symptoms…and she began noticing that the same patterns underlying chronic pain also keep many people from expressing themselves fully and pursuing the lives they really want. Now, Anna works with clients to help them with visibility: expressing themselves, putting themselves “out there,” and moving into bold self-actualization.

In this Episode:

🔹 The connection between chronic pain, staying small, fear of visibility, and healing through trusting yourself.

🔹 Why understanding the nervous system is vitally helpful in moving through the fear of expressing yourself authentically.

🔹 What it feels like, on a nervous system level, to receive negative feedback.

🔹 The conflict between a deep desire to share your voice and the equally intense fear of blow-back and rejection.

🔹 How a therapist’s own emotional work helps them help their clients.

🔹 3 Tools to work with the fear of visibility: 1) Graded Exposure, 2) Co-regulation, and 3) Dialoguing with Fear.

🔹 We go deep into Dialoguing with Fear, and I know that’ll be helpful for you.

🔹 Here are the questions Anna uses to dialogue with fear:

🔹 1. Dear fear, what are you feeling?

🔹 2. What would you like me to know?

🔹 3. What are you trying to protect me from?

Join us for a fun, enriching, enlightening conversation. Anna’s great.

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Find Anna:

Free Self-Trust Workshop: The Melt-Through Method: www.annaholtzmantherapy.com/melt-through-method-workshop

Free Let-Yourself-Be-Seen Workshop: www.annaholtzman.com/beseen

Seen & Safe Visibility Coaching: www.annaholtzman.com/seenandsafe

Anna’s Instagram: @anna_holtzman

Anna’s Podcast: How to Trust Yourself

Recommended Episode: We Need Your Art with Amie McNee

Email: anna@annaholtzman.com

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Find Sean:

Sean’s Website: mindbodymedicineforchronicpain.com

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Sean’s Free Email List: Free Mindbody Advice and Reminders – From Me to You, Every Week

Sean’s Instagram: @mindbodymedicineforchronicpain

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Learn About Therapy with Sean: Therapy for Chronic Pain and Symptoms

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…and you’re listening to Mindbody Medicine for Chronic Pain.

Therapist Sean Hershey, LCSW teaches you how to use psychological and emotional modalities to heal from chronic pain. Common conditions treated: Back Pain, Neck Pain, Hip Pain, Shoulder Pain, Knee Pain, Elbow Pain, Pain from Disc Bulges, Pain from Disc Degeneration, Sciatica, Neuropathy, Chronic Headaches, Migraine, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Pelvic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Many Eczema and Skin Conditions, Many Arthritic Presentations, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long Covid, Depression, and Anxiety.

Inspired by the pioneering work of Dr. John Sarno and all who’ve built upon his theories including: Nicole Sachs, Christina Sarno Horner, Dr. Howard Schubiner, Dr. Dan Ratner, Alan Gordon, the ATNS, and so many others.

Join us as we discuss: TMS, pain as a danger signal, the pain/threat cycle, healing through psychological work, healing through emotional work, healing through patiently attuning to your true self, trauma, healing as a work in progress, maddening frustration, glimmers of hope, elating successes... But most of all, join us because you don’t have to be alone in your pain. You don’t have to be alone in the hard work of healing. And you don’t have to be alone as this starts to work for you, and you begin to get better.

We’re all walking this path together. We’re right here with you.

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