Can You Heal After Decades of Chronic Pain? Mickey's Recovery Story

Mickey dealt with allergies, body-wide aches, and eventually severe sciatica for more than 40 years, including a spinal stenosis diagnosis and a surgery that brought no relief. After reading Sarno, doing JournalSpeak, and sitting with difficult emotions, she reports being pain free about a month and a half after doing the intensive work, with the sciatic pain returning only briefly a couple of times over three years. Her autoimmune flares also decreased dramatically, though other minor aches still come and go. Her story shows that even very long-standing symptoms can change substantially, and that progress rarely follows a straight line.

Originally shared on The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW