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  • Episode #137- The Healing Power of Dance

    Episode #137- The Healing Power of Dance
    Jun 2 2025
    In this episode, we welcome Jake Trembath, a dance teacher from Utah, who shares his journey from discovering dance as a social outlet to using it as a tool for psychological healing and brain rewiring. Jake explains how dance can help process emotions, improve self-love, and create a flow state that is beneficial for personal growth. He discusses the impact of dance on mental and physical health, highlighting its ability to rewire the brain, improve memory, and treat depression. The episode also covers the dynamics of lead and follow in dance, how it relates to masculine and feminine energies, and the importance of creating a safe space for self-expression. Jake's community, Soal Coast, and its various retreats and events are spaces where people can experience these transformations, check them out below. 00:00 Introduction and Special Guest Announcement 00:34 Jake's Journey into Dance 01:55 From Dancing to Teaching 03:05 The Healing Power of Dance 05:17 Understanding Attachment Styles Through Dance 10:23 The Role of Self-Love in Dance 22:52 Creating Safety in Dance 24:56 Discovering the Power of Safe Dance Environments 25:59 Building a Supportive Dance Community 27:26 Health Benefits of Dance 29:34 Overcoming Personal Barriers Through Dance 40:17 The Flow State in Dance and Life 43:46 Upcoming Events and Retreats 45:41 Rapid Transformation Through Dance You can find more about Jake and Soul Coast events on the website: https://soulcoast.dance/ Instagram @soulcoast.dance
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    50 Min.
  • Episode # 136- My Surprising MRI Results

    Episode # 136- My Surprising MRI Results
    Feb 9 2025

    Wow, I had an MRI done on my back and I talk about my surprising results in this episode.

    I’ve had some previous back issues- a snowboarding injury and a mid back problem with my rib that developed during pregnancy.

    A couple times in the last few years that my back “went out” for a few days (last time was over a year ago.)

    I do not have chronic back pain, and I do not have to restrict my activity.

    But if I had pain and numbness and these same MRIs results, I could qualify for disability.

    MRI and X Ray results actually do not accurately predict the amount of pain someone is in.

    Structural changes in the body are actually normal with age. And addressing normal degenerative changes with surgery is really nothing more than a placebo.

    We now know it’s common for pain free people to have bulging discs, torn rotator cuffs, torn meniscus of the knee, hip labral tears.

    We just haven’t been doing MRI’s on pain free people to see that.

    So here are the results if you want to read them-

    Right paracentral disc protrusion at T5-6 with mild mass effect on the ventral aspect of the cord.

    L2-3: Diffuse disc bulge extending 2.5 mm into the thecal sac. No spinal canal or neuroforaminal stenosis.

    L3-4: Diffuse disc bulge extending 3 mm into the thecal sac. Mild spinal canal stenosis. Mild bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.

    L4-5: Central disc protrusion measuring 16 mm in width and extending 5 mm into the thecal sac. Mild spinal canal stenosis. Mild bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.

    L5-S1: Central disc protrusion measuring 18 mm in width. Moderate to severe bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis. No spinal canal stenosis.

    IMPRESSION:

    1. Central disc protrusion at L5-S1 with retrolisthesis measuring 6 mm. Moderate to severe bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.

    2. Central disc protrusion at L4-L5 with mild spinal canal stenosis and mild bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.

    3. Diffuse disc bulge at L3-4 with mild spinal canal stenosis and mild bilateral neuroforaminal stenosis.

    4. Diffuse disc bulge at L2-L3 without spinal canal or neuroforaminal stenosis.

    5. Modic type I endplate changes at L5-S1 with Modic type I endplate changes.

    6. Straightening of the lumbar spine on the sagittal view which can be seen in the setting of muscle spasm.

    Below are some of the research articles I mentioned:

    -Takatalo- 50% of healthy 21 year old Finns had at least one degenerative disc and 25% had a bulging disc.

    -Boos- 73% of adults without back pain had bulging discs.

    -Briggs- hip labral tears in 89% of pain free young athletes 16 years of age or older, & 56% of pain free athletes 16 years or younger.

    -S Rajasekaran- Delivery of MRI results affects pain and healing.

    -Karayannis Fear of movement is associated with trunk stiffness.

    If you are a woman experiencing chronic neck or back pain, I am forming a group especially for you! Details to come soon.
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    15 Min.
  • Episode #135- Treating Neuroplastic Symptoms with Dr David Clarke

    Episode #135- Treating Neuroplastic Symptoms with Dr David Clarke
    Nov 18 2024
    Today I have a special guest, a leader in the field of Mindbody medicine and President of the ATNS (Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms, formerly PPDA), Dr David Clarke. Dr Clarke practiced Gastroenterology in Portland from 1984 to 2009, treating over 7000 patients whose symptoms were not explained by diagnostic testing. In this episode, Dr Clarke summarizes Pain relief Psychology. With research based methods teaching patients to take their focus off the symptom, shift attention to brain, and feel the emotions or deal with life stressors. Responding to chronic pain or symptoms this way rewires the brain, so that symptoms can be eliminated instead of just managed. Listen to hear more! Find Dr Clarke and the 12 question quiz on the ATNS website- https://www.symptomatic.me/ Dr Clarke's challenging patients course https://ppdassociation.org/online-course For fresh content on healing chronic pain or disease, follow Betsy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bodyandmindlifecoach/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXZSYYGL2cfJl-oEOzqspA Website https://bodyandmindlifecoach.com Transcript- Automatically Generated: This is Betsy Jensen, and you are listening to Unstoppable Body and Mind, Episode 135, Treating Neuroplastic Symptoms with Dr. David Clarke. In this podcast, we learn to upgrade our brain and understand the power of our thoughts, to heal and to create the results we want in our life. Become the person in control of your healing and make peace with your life. Become Unstoppable Body and Mind. All right. Hi, everyone. Welcome. We have a special, special guest today. This is Dr. David Clarke. Welcome. Great to be with you, Betsy. Well, we are so glad to have you here. So Dr. Clarke is one of the pioneers and leaders in this field. The head of the PPDA, which is now the ATNS, we can talk about what all of these initials mean and acronyms. But why don't we start with a little bit about your story, coming from being a Western physician to what you do now? Yeah, I didn't know anything about this. The first seven years of my formal training and education, you know, it's kind of embarrassing to admit as a physician that nobody ever mentioned the idea that your brain could cause serious pain or illness in your body, in the complete absence of anything wrong structurally or with your organs. But then I encountered a patient, I didn't know the first thing about diagnosing or treating. In year eight of my formal training, she was referred to us at UCLA where I was in training by another university because they couldn't find anything wrong to explain her symptoms. She was actually averaging one bowel movement per month, despite taking four different laxatives at double the usual doses. We did some specialized testing on her that also was normal. I was doing her exit interview and basically telling her she was just going to have to live with this because there wasn't anything more we could do. But just so the conversation wouldn't be over in two minutes, I started asking her about stress. She didn't really have any. You know, her current day life was really going just fine. But when I asked her about stress earlier, she started talking about having been molested as a girl by her father. Unfortunately, not just once or twice, which would have been bad enough, but hundreds of times. And I had never heard anybody say that before. I didn't know what to do with that information. I had no formal training in how to respond to that. But I fell back on basic instincts as a doctor, which is to try to get the story. When did it start? How often did it happen? When did it stop? Those kinds of things. And she was telling me the story in a perfectly calm tone of voice. It didn't look like she was distressed by this at all. If you didn't know better, you would think that, and I didn't know better at the time, you would think that she had completely processed this information and had moved on. And yet she has this terrible physical symptom with no explanation for it. So I didn't think the two things could possibly be connected, but they were both very striking. So I had vaguely heard of a psychiatrist at UCLA that was interested in conditions like this. And I thought maybe it'll help her to live with this a little better. So I connected her up with Harriet Kaplan, who was a psychiatrist and forgot all about her. Until I ran into Harriet in an elevator three months later, and I've told this story many times before, but this was the elevator ride that changed my career. Because in making conversation with Harriet, it turned out she had cured this patient with less than three months of counseling. And the idea that you could alleviate a serious, real physical symptom just by talking to somebody, that was nowhere in my medical education or training. And I thought, you know, if I'm going to be a complete doctor, I should know a little bit about this. So I got Harriet to teach me ...
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  • Episode #134- Stress, the Subconscious and Pain- Interview with Jim Prussack, the Pain PT

    Episode #134- Stress, the Subconscious and Pain- Interview with Jim Prussack, the Pain PT
    Oct 18 2024

    Fellow Physical Therapist, Jim Prussack, joins me today for an interesting interview about his experience moving from PT to pain reprocessing Coach. We discuss the principles of PRT (pain reprocessing therapy), and how we treat differently using a mind vs body based approach. Check out Jim at https://www.thepainpt.com/

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    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unstoppable-body-and-minds-podcast/id1493360543
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    43 Min.
  • Episode #133- Embracing Your Emotions Meditation

    Episode #133- Embracing Your Emotions Meditation
    Aug 16 2024

    This Meditation will help you find and process your emotions.

    Many of us have learned to subconsciously repress our emotions, to talk ourselves out of them or judge ourselves for having them.

    But we also know that what you resist persists.

    So sometimes the best way to “get rid of the emotion” is actually to lean into and embrace it.

    Emotions are just sensations, and can not hurt you as long as you don’t resist them.

    Allowing your emotions and learning to feel them safely will prevent them from being expressed through your body.

    Today’s meditation is based on Dr Howard Schubiner’s “Embracing Emotions Meditation” from “Unlearn Your Pain.”

    For fresh content on healing chronic pain or disease, follow Betsy

    on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bodyandmindlifecoach/

    Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXZSYYGL2cfJl-oEOzqspA

    Website https://bodyandmindlifecoach.com
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    14 Min.
  • Episode # 132- Hypnosis for Pain Relief with Melissa Tiers

    Episode # 132- Hypnosis for Pain Relief with Melissa Tiers
    Aug 6 2024

    Join me today to hear Hypnotist, Melissa Tiers, as we discuss integrative hypnosis and how it helps with chronic pain.

    Melissa has been training clinicians in the use of hypnosis for pain relief for over 25 years and her own chronic pain history was pivotal in the creation of her pain protocols.

    Melissa struggled with years of migraines and is now migraine-free through this approach (as long as she stays congruent! Listen for more details as to what that all means...)

    We discuss the unconscious lens, how to be more mindful, and how to change your memories through memory reconsolidation

    Addressing the subconscious directy is the fastest way to see change.

    Melissa Tiers is a multi-award winning author, lecturer, key note speaker and hypnosis trainer. She is the founder of The Center for Integrative Hypnosis, co founder of The Ethical Coaching Collective and creator of Coaching the Unconscious Mind. Melissa has earned three IMDHA Pen and Quill awards for her books, Integrative Hypnosis, Keeping the brain in mind, and Integrative Hypnosis for kids and teens:Playing for change.

    Check out "Integrative Hypnosis for Pain Relief" by Melissa Tiers

    Thursday, August 8, 6:00-8:00 pm EST

    Sign up here:

    https://www.centerforintegrativehypnosis.com/offers/FNGSVfrz/checkout

    Find Melissa at https://www.melissatiers.com/

    For fresh content on healing chronic pain or disease, follow Betsy

    on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bodyandmindlifecoach/

    Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXZSYYGL2cfJl-oEOzqspA

    Website https://bodyandmindlifecoach.com
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  • Episode # 131- Life After 30 Years of Chronic Pain- with Renee

    Episode # 131- Life After 30 Years of Chronic Pain- with Renee
    May 30 2024
    Today I interviewed Renee Kammer, who has an amazing healing story. From 30 years of chronic pain and 5 years being bed bound, to now hiking, biking, and gardening. Renee had several diagnoses, including: Stiff person’s syndrome, Ulcerative colitis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ankylosing spondylitis, Fibromyalgia, Headaches, Migraines, Back pain, Hip pain, Anxiety, Depression, Pelvic pain/ IC, Chronic fatigue, Chest pain and High blood pressure. Renee joined Alignment Academy and went through all of the exercises in Dr Schubiner's workbook to unlearn her pain. She got off 14 medications in the last year, and has been feeling better and better! She now has more joy and hope in her life, and is even starting a baking business with her new found time and energy. Listen here for Renee's story. And if you want to apply the work Renee did to your life this summer, be sure and check out my Book Club Integration Group! https://www.bodyandmindlifecoach.com/book-club-integration-group Transcript- Automatically Generated: This is Betsy Jensen, and you are listening to Unstoppable Body and Mind, episode 131, Life After 30 Years of Chronic Pain with Renee. In this podcast, we learned to upgrade our brain and understand the power of our thoughts, to heal and to create the results we want in our life. Become the person in control of your healing and make peace with your life. Become Unstoppable Body and Mind. Hello, my loves. Today we have an amazing episode, an amazing testimonial from Renee. I want you to listen to her story and apply anything that you can to your life, to what you're going through. Hi, everyone. Welcome. Today we have a special guest, Renee. She has such an amazing story. So welcome, Renee. Hi, it's good to be here. Great, great. It's so good having you. Renee has been in my coaching group, Alignment Academy. Oh, I was going to look up how long. Less than a year, I think, right? I think it's been since November, December. Yeah. So about like six months, seven months. And you've made such amazing progress. You were already on your way of this journey of like, getting rid of some medicines and some things. We'll go into your story, but watching your progress has been amazing. And I think it will be really inspirational for people. So let's just go ahead with maybe just a little bit about yourself and how you got to having chronic pain and the symptoms that you had. So my name is Renee. I live in Ohio and I grew up just across the river in Kentucky. I have two kids, a son who's 14 and a daughter who is going to be 17 next month. I've been married to my husband Justin for 23 years, and I love life. When I go to tell my story, it always starts when I was younger because as far back as I can remember, I remember carrying around Pepto-Bismol, because my stomach was always upset as a kid. As a kid, yeah. Yes, and it was kind of a family joke, you know, that she always has that Pepto with her. But my stomach was always upset, and I can see now that was just a lot of anxiety and worry. But there were just, there were several things that had happened with friends and in my life. When I was about 16, that I started getting chronic pain then. And so my story goes back over 30 years of chronic pain. It's honestly, when I think about it, it can be a bit overwhelming to see that the majority of my life, I've not known anything but pain. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting deep fast here. But there's a happy ending though, you guys. Just very happy. But yeah, that's a lot, right? It's a long time. It's a long time. And so although I've had much easier years here and there coming and going, my body always managed to drag me down. And so I guess the relief that I feel now at being free from pain and not living in fear is just, it's so incredible. I have not felt like this the majority of my adult life. That is an amazing transformation. It's crazy. Yeah. Okay. So as far as your diagnoses that you've had or that you've been diagnosed with, do you have kind of a summary or a list so we can have an idea of what you were diagnosed with and how severe it was? So my latest diagnosis was actually stiff person syndrome. That was the last two years, which is a muscle disease, which they thought it might be autoimmune. But I think I proved that one wrong. I've been diagnosed with that when I have ulcerative colitis. I've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis for years. I was treated for enclosing spondylitis, which is just another form of arthritis. I've been treated for years for fibromyalgia, for headaches and migraines, back pain, hip pain, anxiety and depression. There were years that I went through therapy for pelvic pain and intercistal cystitis, chronic fatigue, chest pain, high blood pressure. All of those were diagnoses that I've had. And years actually include a lot of autoimmune ones too, which is kind of on the rare side. That's an area where that can cause physical damage and physical disease, and ...
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  • Episode #130- Deactivate Your Triggers

    Episode #130- Deactivate Your Triggers
    May 7 2024

    This episode includes a 6 minute technique you can do to deactivate your triggers. My coach who studies hypnotherapy taught me this somatic hack to decrease the intense feelings of a trigger. It is not to ignore the trigger or brush it under a rug, but to make it more emotionally manageable so it can be processed and let go. Think of something that triggers you, and try the process along with me in this episode. Best if you can sit or lay down with your eyes closed.

    If you are a woman over age 35, and you're interested in a supportive coaching community to help accelerate your progress, check out Alignment Academy here:

    https://www.bodyandmindlifecoach.com/somatic-coaching
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    11 Min.