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The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Anna Grear — HypnoCatalyst

35 episodes

1 week ago

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Carissa Conrad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, and Health and Wellness Coach. Carissa's experience of recovery from Long Covid fundamentally reshaped her practice. She now offers patients an approach that blends nervous system regulation, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, and advanced manual therapies. In this conversation, Anna and Carissa explore various dimensions of nervous system work, and Carissa explains the simple power of properly...

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In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Carissa Conrad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, and Health and Wellness Coach. Carissa's experience of recovery from Long Covid fundamentally reshaped her practice. She now offers patients an approach that blends nervous system regulation, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, and advanced manual therapies. In this conversation, Anna and Carissa explore various dimensions of nervous system work, and Carissa explains the simple power of properly...

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Alternative Health

Religion & Spirituality,

Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness

Episodes (20/35)

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Nervous System Flexibility and the Power of TENS Stimulation'—with Carissa Conrad

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Carissa Conrad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, and Health and Wellness Coach. Carissa's experience of recovery from Long Covid fundamentally reshaped her practice. She now offers patients an approach that blends nervous system regulation, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, and advanced manual therapies. In this conversation, Anna and Carissa explore various dimensions of nervous system work, and Carissa explains the simple power of properly...

1 week ago

45 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Plants and the Knowings of More-Than-Human Kinships'—with Dr Maya Shetreat

In this episode, Anna and Dr Maya Shetreat (MD, neurologist and ceremonialist) discuss the incredible more-than-human intelligences of plants, cells, mitochondria and more. This is a truly exciting, deep and exploratory conversation in which Maya offers multiple mind-expanding insights. Together, Anna and Maya explore master plants, human and plant kinships and the intimacy of respiratory exchanges. They also explore the power of more-than-cognitive knowing, the potency of Indigenous scientif...

2 months ago

51 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Reframing Healing: Toxicities, the Nervous System, and Bringing Curiosity to Discomfort'—with Dr Evan Hirsch

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch (the Energy MD), who has helped thousands recover from Long Covid and ME/CFS. The conversation raises some fascinating points: how Long Covid can be understood as ME/CFS with a different viral trigger; how the nervous system and mitochondria are not 'dysfunctional' but highly functional, intelligent and communicative. Evan covers the 5 main causes of complex fatigue conditions, and the conversation moves through the difference between nervous s...

3 months ago

40 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Curiosity, Openness and Allowing—A Path of Deep Healing'—with Jack Strömer

In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with her friend and colleague Jack Strömer. Jack has his own walk with chronic fatigue syndrome and a deep practice of Zen meditation. In this conversation, Anna and Jack explore the invitational nature of illness in relation to spiritual maturation. Themes of curiosity, openness, allowing and the intimacy of 'not knowing' all emerge at different points in this rich, thoughtful exploration. Feel free to send a text! We can't respond via text unfor...

4 months ago

39 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Ancient Wisdom: Ayurveda, the Intelligences of the Body and Turmeric' — with Dr Shivani Gupta

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Shivani Gupta, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine. Through years of research and dedication, Shivani explored the incredible power of turmeric as a potent natural anti-inflammatory and later developed her own supplements powerful enough for doctors to recommend to their patients for every day use. In this rich conversation, Shivani's passion for wellbeing and for the amazing properties of Ayurvedic medicine shines through, as well as her understanding of the ...

11 months ago

43 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'"Your Presence is Required" — Coming Home to Body and Self' — with Jana Norman

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Jana Norman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Jana has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, as well as, more recently, Long Covid. In this conversation Anna and Jana explore the role of the body, and of materiality itself, as way of receiving the wisdom of evolutionary intelligence at work in the body and the world. Their conversation covers the lived, bodily experience of fatigue; the exciting science of cell...

1 year ago

47 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

The Lake of Light — A Hypnotic Journey into Expansion

A special bonus episode marking a gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of the Fatigue Files podcast. This is a hypnotic journey into a world of healing possibilities, drawing on imagination and suggestion. It elicits a sense of connection with a deeper sense of agency, inviting you into a more expansive sense of self, one who can co-construct your own experience. Listen with headphones on. Take the volume to a level where you are comfortable with the voice. Please don't use machinery ...

1 year ago

16 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Body-Mind? Listening for the Body — with Anna Grear

In this episode, Anna reflects on the importance of understanding the centrality of the body as a sensing, capable field of aliveness and a highly evolved, highly intelligent field of meaning-making. She explores the Western myth of the body-mind split and challenges the sense in which some approaches to healing are almost echoes, no matter how well-meaning, of that older mythic structure. Is it time, she wonders, to drop the idea of a 'hyphenation' in bodymind and to move t...

1 year ago

32 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Evolutionary Biology and the Basic Foundations of Wellbeing — with Shaun Moran

Having been diagnosed with CFS in 2012, Shaun Moran recovered using various layers of health optimisation science-based approaches. Shaun now works as a health and recovery coach and offers a program called the 'CFS-Free Recovery Program'. In this conversation, Shaun and Anna explore some (but not all) of the layers of health optimisation based in a fundamental respect for the evolutionary biology of the body and the science-led approach that draws on it. The health paradigm that Shaun ...

1 year ago

50 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Kundalini, Fatigue and Healing — with Frances Goodall

Frances Goodall is a Wellbeing Coach, author, creator of the Lotus Process Video Series, a Sex and Pleasure Coach for Women, and a practitioner of Internal Family Systems and Family Constellations. She has extensive training in a range of modalities and can be reached via her website, listed below. In this conversation, Frances and Anna share their experiences with Kundalini processes drawn from their own autobiographical convergence between Kundalini awakening and their ME/CFS journey. Franc...

1 year ago

38 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'Being Together': The Silent Healing Touch of Plants — with Matilda Arvidsson

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Matilda recounts her deep journey back from a desperate situation of deep fatigue, trauma and isolation. She had been, at one point, taken to the very edge of her sense of wanting to 'continue as a being'. Her journey back to life centrally involved plants as companions or kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The sheer life force of her plants, Matilda recounts, drew her back into life itself again. This is rich, intriguing convers...

1 year ago

45 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Fascia, Flow and Healing — with Anna Rahe

Anna Rahe is an expert in fascia. She founded GST Body — a whole fascia conditioning system. She has been a somatic and lifestyle educator for over 20 years. She has run different body studios, lectured and taught around the world and spent time on faculty at the University of San Francisco. She enjoys working with all people and bodies ranging from professional and Olympic athletes to young children with scoliosis and paralysis. In this conversation, Anna and Anna explore fascia, ...

1 year ago

51 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'In Their Own Voices — Glimpses From a Healing Transformation'

In this bonus episode of The Fatigue Files, we hear from some of the participants on Anna's groundbreaking Healing Transformation Blueprint Program. The program attracts people who want to move beyond recovery into deeper layers of healing, wellbeing and transformation. Here, some beautiful souls on that journey share glimpses into a powerful, co-emergent healing process. Whether it is sleeping for 7 or 8 hours a night after 2 years of not sleeping, or breaking addictive h...

1 year ago

28 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Fatigue and Healing — with Dawn Wiley

Dawn Wiley is running an incredible experiment in vagus nerve stimulation — using her own body as her primary field of experimentation. Dawn has come from a position of profound debility to a much more functional level of health through her determined exploration of a range of vagus nerve-stimulating technologies. She runs a Facebook group: 'AVA A Vagus Adventure' in which she generously shares information on the subject: https://www.facebook.com/groups/492041135346672In this deeply practical...

1 year ago

51 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Fatigue and Transfiguration — With Ava Dasya Rasa

In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with Ava Dasya Rasa, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Transpersonal Psychotherapist specialising in Trauma, Grief, and Contemplative Spirituality and Renewal. Ava is also an author, poet, speaker, teacher, and spiritual director. In this rich conversation, Anna and Ava first explore Ava's own journey with chronic and serious illness, before discussing trauma, the brain (especially a healing modality called brainspotting) and transfigu...

1 year ago

42 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

The Emotional Drivers of Fatigue — with Heather McKean

Heather McKean is an experienced coach and healer. Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by reprogramming the brain's patterns. Mind Change is a collection of new, cutting-edge techniques that draws together a range of effective modalities to offer rapid change. In this conversation, Heather and Anna explore the emotional drivers of fatigue...

2 years ago

46 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Meditation, Healing and Awakening — with Ashok Gupta

In this episode, Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might not have heard Ashok speak like this before, even if you know his work.Ashok Gupta is well known to the community of people who are on the healing journey with fatigue. He is the founder and CEO of the Gupta Program, a celebrated recovery program that l...

2 years ago

40 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Breaking the Chronic Fatigue Cycle — with Sharon Wirant

Like many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal fatigue. Her condition was ignited by a ‘push through’ attitude that resulted in a chronic stress response in her brain and left her body vulnerable to infections, inflammation and fatigue. Sharon now works with others, helping them in their recovery jo...

2 years ago

46 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

'The Breaking of the Shell' — with Elaine Walker with Anna Grear

The Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer)Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain, from The Prophet, and particularly this line, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding'.So many people who go through serious illness seem to encounter some sort of breaking of the shell. Anna describes her breaking, or breakthrough, as part of a rather frightening ...

2 years ago

46 minutes

The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

Your Amazing Reality-Shifting Brain — with Ben Elers

What if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states? In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast. Ben is an innovation trainer and coach for 'disrupters and change makers — helping accelerate innovation by thinking and imagining in new ways — based on how your embodied brain actually works!' Anna and Ben explore the incredible reality-construction processe...

2 years ago

45 minutes