Episode 35 - Making recovery the most important thing in your life
In this short Facebook Live session, Alex explains the importance of making recovery the most important goal in your day to day life, especially in the early stages. If we have multiple goals or prior...
30 Huhti 20197min
Episode 34 - What sort of psychology do you recommend?
Through his personal experience and extensive education in various psychological approaches, Alex offers his recommendations for what kind of psychology work might be right for you depending on where ...
23 Huhti 201910min
Episode 33 - Why listening to your body is so hard
The advice, "listen to your body" sounds like it should be easy, but it isn't quite as simple as it seems. We often get conflicting messages from our body and it can be tricky to decide which message ...
16 Huhti 201910min
Episode 32 - Trauma and ME CFS recovery
Alex explores "Trauma", major disruptive life events, and "trauma", small or developmental patterns that can effect our well-being. By understanding and working with our own traumas, we can develop he...
9 Huhti 201913min
Episode 31 - The inner critic and recovery
Becoming familiar with and identifying thoughts of our energy-depleting "inner critic" can be huge in helping us identify unhelpful thought patterns or beliefs that we can stop and change. Changing th...
2 Huhti 20198min
Episode 30 - Windows ME
The mental pattern of Windows ME means we run every thought and activity through the filter of having ME. This means every situation can cause stress if we continually question what the future holds f...
26 Maalis 20198min
Episode 29 - Mental tennis
Mental tennis is a mental pattern that can make decision making feel impossible. In ME/CFS our nervous systems are already over-stimulated, and when it comes to deciding how to spend our energy, patie...
19 Maalis 201916min
Episode 28 - Why should our nutrition patients do the psychology programme?
Alex discusses why patients in the nutrition program can benefit from also doing the psychology work with The Optimum Health Clinic. We do not in any way promote the idea that ME/CFS or Fibromyalgia a...
12 Maalis 201910min
