If You Have Chronic Pain or Other Symptoms, aka Mindbody Syndrome (TMS), You Need to Build Your Sense of Empowerment in Order to Recover.

If you have chronic pain or symptoms in the body that are NOT coming from a physical cause (this condition is known as TMS), or you Highly Sensitive person (HSP), you are likely familiar with the following:

• Anxiety and overwhelm. For example, you have a busy day and you worry about how you're going to get it all done, so you spend so much time on what if's and wondering what could happen. By the end of the day, you feel completely burnt out
• Lack of self trust and struggle with decision making. You need to ask everyone's approval before you can buy that piece of clothing, make that work decision, or share a post on social media
• People pleasing. You have been wanting to move to another place for a long time and now the opportunity comes up. But your parents really don't want you to move so far from them. So you don't because you don't want to hurt them
• Having no boundaries. A friend keeps telling you about her dramatic relationship on and on. You are listening and trying to help but nothing ever changes... You feel like these conversations suck the energy out of you but you won't say anything
• Feeling guilty for taking time for yourself. For example, you want to start working out but you feel so guilty because that would mean taking some time away from your family
• Overthinking. After going out to a party, you over-analyze the conversations you had and things you said, wondering if you should have done it differently and catastrophizing about how terrible you must have come across
• Hard time handling conflict. You're need some new furniture for your home but you and your spouse like different things. Eventually you let your partner decide what to get and keep telling yourself that it isn't a big deal if you don't love it
• Comparing yourself to others. You look at your social media and see that everyone seems to be doing a lot better, have more fun, nicer bodies and more friends, and you feel like a loser. You believe that you can never be as successful
• Being responsible for other people's emotions. You worry excessively when your spouse or friend is in a bad mood so you go out of your way to "fix" it
• Not expressing your wants and needs. You are really exhausted and would love a nap before making dinner. You want to ask your spouse to go and get the few grocery items that you need. But you don't want to cause trouble so you skip your nap and go to the store yourself
• Not expressing your emotions. You were going to meet up with a friend for a coffee but she doesn't show up -- she forgot! You are disappointed and frustrated, but you say that it's okay and there's no problem at all.

All of these things can cause emotional or mental burnout and even unpleasant physical, chronic sensations in the body.

If this described you, you need to get started with building MENTAL, EMOTIONAL and PHYSICAL resilience in order to start to feel more confident in yourself. That in turn will help you to relieve chronic pain.

You may wonder what strength training has to do with it all, so here's what I've seen time and time again:

In my experience, strength training is one of the best tools to build both physical strength and mental empowerment that people with chronic symptoms as well as HSPs really need.

Strength training can be done with just bodyweight if you are a beginner, but you can also use dumbbells if you have them and if you already have some experience. There's something so empowering about moving your body, pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, and getting through a challenging exercise! It really translates into your life outside of the workout too because as a HSP / person with TMS, we have similar experiences in life all the time.

Life requires strength, overcoming obstacles and proving to ourselves over and over again that we can handle hard things.

No matter where you're at, and even if you still have chronic pain -- you can get started with strength training, and this program will give you the exact tools for it.

With this program, you will combine the mindset tools and strength training and as a result build more strength and confidence than you thought possible!

But don't take my word for it...

Here is how people from my own coaching practice who had TMS or who are HSPs described how they felt before they started lifting weights, and how they do now, months or years later.