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Anna Winfield shares her journey of healing from chronic symptoms through the lens of the nervous system and MindBody healing.

Learn how to JournalSpeak ➡️ ⁠LEARN HOW:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/2ph33u2s In this episode, I sit down with Anna Winfield, a pediatrician, BreakAwake Support Circle expert, and a beautiful example of what becomes possible when we begin to understand chronic symptoms through the lens of the nervous system. Anna shares her powerful story of living for decades with migraines, fibromyalgia, pelvic pain, IBS, brain fog, and so many other diagnoses that never fully explained what was happening. After a concussion sent her into a major flare, one unexpected conversation with a rheumatology nurse practitioner opened the door to a completely different understanding: that her pain might not be coming from structural damage at all, but from TMS. What followed was a profound shift in how Anna understood her body, her history, and her path to healing. Together, we talk about the deep overlap between medicine and MindBody healing, the resistance so many of us feel when it comes to JournalSpeak and inner child work, and why symptoms so often speak the language of what we have not yet learned to hear. Anna brings such a thoughtful and moving perspective as both a physician and a…

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