The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya Novak
For many people, healing physical trauma is the hardest thing they have to face in life and the conventional medical approach doesn't (yet) cover all the things that are important and that can make or break the recovery. Tune in to get inspired & empowered, and discover ways you can help yourself to heal in the best possible way and beyond expectations.
Episodes
68 episodes
Ron Clinton - When Knee Pain is not a Knee Problem
44% of knee pain has its origin elsewhere.Do you know anyone with knee pain? It feels like there are so many people who just kind of program themselves for it. It’s ‘part of getting old’ for them. So of course, the body listens.<...
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Episode 68
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1:22:25
Jerry Sever - Behind the Scenes of the Supplement Industry
“There are very trusted brands whose supplements are very mediocre, to say the least.”If you had asked me a decade ago what I thought about supplements, I’d probably say that they’re unnecessary, because a well-pl...
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Episode 67
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1:19:23
Bruce (BJ) Miller, MD - Life After Amputation and How to Thrive in Adversity
You may lose parts of your physical body – but you are still you.Many/most people build their identity around their bodies. That is normal and natural – the body is the physical YOU. But what if you have an accident where ...
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Episode 66
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1:00:05
Felicia Yu, MD - Increase Your Energy Flow for Best Recovery
Balance is always important. Especially when healing. To keep things flowing smoothly it’s important to have balance. Focusing more on one thing and forgetting or ignoring others creates a situation that is not harmonious – and t...
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Episode 65
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1:05:05
Dr. Maya Novak - How to Heal Completely From Any Type of Injury
We need to be our own best cheerleader. Sure, we all have down moments and sometimes it’s hard to do that. But constantly only relying on others to tell you what to do, how to think, where to go, what to choose, how to do things,...
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Episode 64
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59:22
James S. Gordon, MD - How to Turn Trauma Into Opportunity
Whatever happened to you, you shouldn’t be diminishing your own experience, or downtalking your trauma.Broken ankle, broken back, a tendon tear, those are all very general descriptions of what happens to us, but as with anything,...
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Episode 63
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53:11
Dawson Church, PhD - Think Your Way to Incredible Healing
Can you really heal with just the power of thoughts?The answer probably depends on how you approach this. If you just think very hard about healing, it probably won’t do much for you (and if you’re focused on your injury, it migh...
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Episode 62
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56:50
Lana Shlafer - Creating and Manifesting Miracles in Healing
Nothing happens without intention. It was summer 2010, a couple of months before I met my husband, when I was enjoying a long weekend with a bunch of friends on a sailboat on the Adriatic Sea. One of them was reading a book with ...
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Episode 61
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1:08:15
Brad Yates - Simple Technique for Frustration-Free Healing
Tapping should probably be in everyone’s recovery toolbox. If there’s one thing that I’ve heard from injured women and men countless times it’s this: “I’m so frustrated with this!” Whether with lack of progress or not pr...
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Episode 60
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59:01
Dr. Alan Goldhamer - How Fasting Can Support Your Recovery and When to Do It
Fasting can be really helpful when done right... and really bad for you when done wrong.It must have been in my very late teens or early 20s when I did my first fast. It lasted 3 days and as many people would confirm, the first 3...
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Episode 59
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52:46
Abby Wynne - Shamanic Way of Healing in Challenging Times
We all remember 2020, don’t we? How could we forget days that turned into weeks that turned into months and then into years of fear, confusion, anger, mistrust, and doubts. Some people coped better, other people not so well. That...
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Episode 58
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1:02:41
Friedemann Schaub, MD, PhD - Resolving Fear and Anxiety on the Subconscious Level
What if we all carry some anxiety?What if this is something that all humans have in common with the only difference that the source and level, and the way we deal with it, is different? Yes, some of us are more resilient, and som...
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Episode 57
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1:03:42
Julia Murray - Managing Inflammation and Healing With Diet
It’s really hard to go wrong by eating more plants. No matter what kind of nutrition research you look into, there’s one thing that most if not all researchers agree on: the more your diet includes whole foods and pla...
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Episode 56
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56:02
Dr. Sue Morter - Enhancing Healing With the Energy Codes for Your Amazing Injury Recovery
You have a healer inside. I truly believe that each of us knows exactly what we need in order to heal when we get sick or end up with any kind of physical trauma. The problem is that people are either led to believe this is not t...
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Episode 55
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1:03:45
Danna Pycher - Healing Your Body with the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
We often think healing trauma that’s buried deep is hard – but it doesn’t need to be. Sometime in 2011, I had my first experience with hypnotherapy. I was positive that the therapist would hypnotize me to the point of me being ki...
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Episode 54
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57:25
Elena Bensonoff - Awakening Your Inner Healer for Incredible Recovery
Healing from within means looking at the whole picture.That doesn’t mean that healing with external help can’t do the same – but it often misses things, and looks at symptoms and specific body parts or organs, rather than the who...
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Episode 53
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56:14
David Hanscom, MD – Chronic Pain and Solving the ‘Unsolvable’
We would be in a lot of trouble without pain. Say that again? Yes, even though this might seem impossible, it’s true. In its acute form, pain can keep us from harm, teach us what (not) to do, and slow us down whe...
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Episode 52
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47:44
Heidi Armstrong - Engaging the Parasympathetic Nervous System to Enhance Your Healing
Injury recovery can be even more painful if you’re an active person or athlete.It’s true that no matter the level of activity, every person who is injured suffers. This is because it’s not only our physical body that gets affecte...
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Episode 51
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47:08
Erica Meloe - Discovering the True Source of Your Pain
Even when the source of pain seems obvious, it might not be.When figuring out the physical reasons for pain in the body, it’s easy to fall into the trap of viewing the affected body part separately from the rest. But sometimes, t...
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Episode 50
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1:06:34
Amy B. Scher - How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can
Perfectionism can be painful.We all have an incredible healing potential – the problem is that we very often forget about it. Sometimes that is because we give our power away and just wait for others to tell us what we need to do...
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Episode 49
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1:01:30
Eileen Kopsaftis - The Secrets of Coping With Pain in the Healing Process
Pain is often optional.You just have to know how to treat it.Eileen Kopsaftis, a manual therapist who focuses strongly on pain, has made multiple appearances on The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks – there are two othe...
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Episode 48
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1:23:50
Joel Fuhrman, MD - Recovery Nutrition: Figuring out the How and What
When it comes to food, it’s nutrients, not calories that really count. ‘Calories in – calories out’ is the motto of most fitness enthusiasts and those who want to lose weight. But there are things that are way more important than...
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Episode 47
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58:04
Claudia Omland - How to Harness Your Sexual Energy to Speed up Healing
Just like your physical or emotional body, your relationship can also suffer as a result of injury. We like to zoom in on so many things, right? When there’s an injury, doctors zoom in and focus just on that one specific part tha...
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Episode 46
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55:18
Mags Clark-Smith - Resolving Chronic and Unexplained Pain
One thing is absolutely true – and that is that you’re a unique human being. And even though we’re all in one way or another aware of this, we still allow in a way to be crammed into a cookie cutter approach when we’re faced with...
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Episode 45
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1:24:41
Tom Ockler - Eliminating Pain Without Manipulating the Body
Physiotherapy, if done wrong, can hurt you.There are people who love physical manipulations done by physiotherapists and chiropractors and believe this is the way to go, and there are those who prefer to avoid it because cracking...
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Episode 44
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1:24:17