At the age of only 19, Nicole Sachs was told that by the time she was 40, it was unable to travel or have children.
Sachs have been suffering from debilitating low back pain for years and was told by her doctor that it was caused by spondylolisthesis, a spine disease where a vertebra miped.
Doctors insisted that her pain was bound by the chronic spinal disorder, and said that spinal fusion surgery was her best option, without guaranteeing that it would stop her pain forever.
But before she continued, she discovered the practice of mind-body work and something clicked: her pain did not come from a physical disease but suppresses trauma and emotion.
Now, 30 years later she is not only pain-free, she is a world flower-trying mother of three, who defies the limitations that she has ever imposed.
In her book, Note your bodySachs, a social worker, reveals how she bridged the gap between traditional Western medicine and a radical new understanding of chronic pain: her spirit needed healing, not her spine.
Her journey challenges everything she thought she knew about pain.
Sachs writes that it all started with a life -changing awareness: Doctors do not always have all the answers. Now she shares the science behind the breakthrough that saved her, in the conviction that it can help millions caught in endless pain.
Nicole Sachs, diagnosed with a lifelong spine disease, reveals how she bridged the gap between traditional Western medicine and a radical new understanding of chronic pain: her spirit needed healing, not her spinal column
Pain can all be in your head, but not in the way you think.
For thousands of years old healers believed that the mind and the body were inextricably linked – that sadness could weaken the heart, stress could change the stomach and emotional trauma could manifest itself as physical pain.
The rise of Western medicine in the 17th century caused a seismic shift in the way people perceive pain and illness, see the body and mind as separate and treated as such.
This has a peak in millions of doctors who told their patients that all their tests have returned normally and that their pain is all in their head, which comes off when a resignation comes.
That is exactly how Sachs felt.
Connecting to the connection of the body, however, reduced her suffering and led to a search to understand the role of the brain in chronic pain.
She strived for diplomas in psychology and clinical social work and has tightened her approach, combining psychotherapy with spiritual body science.
Sachs wrote: “The development of most chronic disorders can be explained if you understand how a fight-of-flight-motivated nervous system sends signals of fear to distract us from the observed ‘predators’ that cause our suffering … I have discovered in practice that this is what this is what you think.”
By giving a voice to her inner child and unprocessed trauma, her pain began to solve.

Sachs shares her experience with treating herself and many others in her new book Lind Your Body
In mind-body medicine, ‘chronic disorder’ and ‘chronic pain’ cover a wide range of continuous health problems, from autoimmune flare and pain to GI problems, skin conditions and anxiety.
Sachs treated serious back pain for years and was in And from doctors’ offices, who try painkillers and prescription drugs.
Your brain is wired to save you from danger, but when they are caught in endless ‘fight-or-flight’ mode, the emotional pain can change in chronic illness.
Stress floods your body with cortisol and adrenaline, and prepares you for a predator or try to fight them.
In the medicine of the spiritual body, pain is not randomly it is the way of nervous system to distract from oppressed emotions such as anger or heartache by converting them into physical symptoms.
The solution, says Sachs, is to stop fighting someone’s feelings.
She herself dealt with deep loneliness, anger and injustice as a child.
As an adult, this caused physical pain and she learned through spirit-body science that her back pain was a reaction to that.
By confronting suppressed emotions, patients can eliminate the body’s primary alarm system and put the pain in his spurs.
As part of her practice, she created JournalSpeak – a raw, unfiltered journal practice to release buried emotions.
JournalSpeak instructs people to choose a subject that is activated emotionally to them and writes about it for 20 minutes without worrying about spelling or grammar.
When completed, the person can burn, throw away or remove the writings because the goal is to purify, not to think.
After writing, Sachs then instructs people to meditate or the grounding of breathing.
She wrote: “When the rude, unthinkable truths are excavated and felt safe, the nervous system no longer responds by flying into protective mode and sending pain signals.”
Scientists have struggled with the idea that chronic pain is connected to emotional unrest and can even be a response.
A report from 2012 in the magazine Techniques in regional anesthesia and pain management concluded that chronic pain and emotional trauma are physiologically intertwined.
Researchers discovered that 35 percent of patients with chronic pain meets the criteria of a PTSD diagnosis.
Both circumstances cause hyperarousal in the amygdala and flood the body with stress hormones such as cortisol.
In 2022, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, posed in the magazine Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews That suppressed anger ways the brain, activates the amygdala and encourages the ‘pain switch’ to cause disorders such as fibromyalgia and inexplicable back pain.
Tilled anger, they found, disrupts important brain areas and changes emotional stress into physical pain. Unprocessed trauma and anger keep that pain switch switched on and weakens the prefrontal cortex continuously, which regulates emotions, decision -making and pain signals.
Sachs claims that the brain can learn to recognize that difficult emotions are not real danger, reducing unnecessary pain signals and tEchnieken such as magazines and mindfulness help the nervous system again calibrate, which shows that stress does not require painful survival reaction.
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