342. Your Perfectionism Is Hurting You – Literally! (TMS / Chronic Pain)

If yes… This is a very common trait in people who have chronic TMS pain or other symptoms. But this trait is also hurting you, literally causing you chronic pain or other symptoms. Why? Because you put so much pressure on yourself, more than what your nervous system can handle. When you then get a … Read more

340. Chronic Pain is Treated Differently In Finland: A Physical Therapist’s Perspective – with Liis Kukkonen

In today’s episode I’m joined by my guest Liis Kukkonen. Liis is a physical therapist who is practicing in Finland, and she also happens to be my best friend — we go back 35 years! In one of our recent WhatsApp chats I was going to explain Liis what TMS chronic pain is and assuming … Read more

330. Is Your Unexpressed Anger The Reason Why You Have TMS? –

Did you know that many people who have chronic symptoms can have a lot of unprocessed anger in them? Hearing this may sound almost offensive because we seem the LEAST angry people. We are the kindest, nicest, the most caring people in the world! 👉We people please… 👉We put everyone else’s needs before our own… … Read more

327. Empowerment + Evidence that Exercise Helps With Chronic Symptom Recovery

With today’s episode, I want to bring you a lot of encouragement if you are one of these people who is having chronic symptoms in the body as a result of stressed brain and nervous system, and you are afraid to start exercising. I want to ask you 2 questions… 1. How well do you … Read more

318. Kersten on “The Mind and Fitness Podcast” with Eddy Lindenstein

This episode is a replay from Eddy Lindenstein’s podcast “The Mind and Fitness Podcast” where I was his guest. In this podcast we’re talking about TMS which means condition where chronic symptoms in the body are caused by heightened nervous system and stress in the brain. In my case, this was chronic back pain. We … Read more