Christopher Blakeslee is a health practitioner who helps clients recover from chronic illness and pain using a system he developed from his own healing journey. 

In this episode, you’re going to learn how tracking symptoms and lifestyle factors can help you identify triggers and speed up your recovery. You’ll hear about the essential lifestyle changes needed for lasting health improvements, how understanding the brain's role in pain response can lead to breakthroughs in your healing and why no matter how difficult your health situation feels, there is hope for recovery.

Christopher is the founder of Recovery Health Coaching. He helps clients recover from chronic illness, improve chronic pain and deal with the limitations of their conditions. He does so with principles from neuroscience, behaviour management, coaching, personalized lifestyle and supplement approaches from a Functional Health perspective. 

He developed this system while reversing his 35 years of autoimmunity and severe neuropathic pain and successfully working in intensive one-on-one sessions with over 100 clients. He is developing two online courses geared toward nervous system health and universal health principles and is the co-host of the upcoming weekly podcast Recover Your Health, where he shares proven strategies for navigating difficult health scenarios. He is also writing a book with former Mayo Clinic doctor, Jim Lemons, about how using an integrated view, Four Pillars of Health and Foundation First, focus on simple impactful health interventions gets optimal results with chronic health problems.

Timestamps:

[03:36] Christopher’s personal health journey and struggles with chronic illness  

[07:48] Severe pain and neuropathy leading to physical decline  

[14:13] The turning point and decision to radically change his lifestyle  

[16:09] The Four Pillars of Recovery: lifestyle, mindset, neuroscience, and functional health  

[26:51] Addressing inflammation and understanding triggers for chronic illness  

[35:00] The importance of mindset and focusing on what you can control  

[45:17] Breathing techniques and their role in calming the nervous system  

[50:59] Personalized approaches to movement and managing chronic pain

To learn more from Christopher, visit the Recovery Health Coaching Website and check out his YouTube.

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