The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear
A podcast that explores fatigue conditions from as many angles as possible, while pushing the boundaries of thinking about fatigue as a signal to the 21st century and beyond. What is fatigue saying? How is it linked to shifts in contemporary consciousness around spirituality and health? How can we heal from fatigue conditions?
"This is really an exceptional podcast — such rich conversations and so expansive and deep. I'm learning so much": FM
Hosted by Anna Grear, host of the NeuroCalm Fatigue Summit.
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Episodes
35 episodes
'Nervous System Flexibility and the Power of TENS Stimulation'—with Carissa Conrad
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Carissa Conrad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, and Health and Wellness Coach. Carissa's experience of recovery from Long Covid fundamentally reshaped her practice. She now offers pa...
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45:52
'Plants and the Knowings of More-Than-Human Kinships'—with Dr Maya Shetreat
In this episode, Anna and Dr Maya Shetreat (MD, neurologist and ceremonialist) discuss the incredible more-than-human intelligences of plants, cells, mitochondria and more. This is a truly exciting, deep and exploratory conversation in which Ma...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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51:57
'Reframing Healing: Toxicities, the Nervous System, and Bringing Curiosity to Discomfort'—with Dr Evan Hirsch
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch (the Energy MD), who has helped thousands recover from Long Covid and ME/CFS. The conversation raises some fascinating points: how Long Covid can be understood as ME/CFS with a different viral tr...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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40:25
'Curiosity, Openness and Allowing—A Path of Deep Healing'—with Jack Strömer
In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with her friend and colleague Jack Strömer. Jack has his own walk with chronic fatigue syndrome and a deep practice of Zen meditation. In this conversation, Anna and Jack explore the invitational natu...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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39:21
'Ancient Wisdom: Ayurveda, the Intelligences of the Body and Turmeric' — with Dr Shivani Gupta
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Shivani Gupta, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine. Through years of research and dedication, Shivani explored the incredible power of turmeric as a potent natural anti-inflammatory and later developed h...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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43:40
'"Your Presence is Required" — Coming Home to Body and Self' — with Jana Norman
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Jana Norman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Jana has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, as well as, more recently, Long Covid. In this conversation ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:27
The Lake of Light — A Hypnotic Journey into Expansion
A special bonus episode marking a gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of the Fatigue Files podcast. This is a hypnotic journey into a world of healing possibilities, drawing on imagination and suggestion. It elicits a sense of connection wi...
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16:07
Body-Mind? Listening for the Body — with Anna Grear
In this episode, Anna reflects on the importance of understanding the centrality of the body as a sensing, capable field of aliveness and a highly evolved, highly intelligent field of meaning-making. She explores the Western myth of...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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32:34
Evolutionary Biology and the Basic Foundations of Wellbeing — with Shaun Moran
Having been diagnosed with CFS in 2012, Shaun Moran recovered using various layers of health optimisation science-based approaches. Shaun now works as a health and recovery coach and offers a program called the 'CFS-Free Recovery Program'...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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50:00
Kundalini, Fatigue and Healing — with Frances Goodall
Frances Goodall is a Wellbeing Coach, author, creator of the Lotus Process Video Series, a Sex and Pleasure Coach for Women, and a practitioner of Internal Family Systems and Family Constellations. She has extensive training in a range of m...
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38:56
'Being Together': The Silent Healing Touch of Plants — with Matilda Arvidsson
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Matilda recounts her deep journey back from a desperate situation of deep fatigue, trauma and isolation. She had been, at one point, taken to the very edge of her sense of wanting to 'cont...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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45:08
Fascia, Flow and Healing — with Anna Rahe
Anna Rahe is an expert in fascia. She founded GST Body — a whole fascia conditioning system. She has been a somatic and lifestyle educator for over 20 years. She has run different body studios, lectured and taught around the world and spe...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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51:56
'In Their Own Voices — Glimpses From a Healing Transformation'
In this bonus episode of The Fatigue Files, we hear from some of the participants on Anna's groundbreaking Healing Transformation Blueprint Program. The program attracts people who want to move beyond recovery i...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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28:40
Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Fatigue and Healing — with Dawn Wiley
Dawn Wiley is running an incredible experiment in vagus nerve stimulation — using her own body as her primary field of experimentation. Dawn has come from a position of profound debility to a much more functional level of health through her det...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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51:19
Fatigue and Transfiguration — With Ava Dasya Rasa
In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with Ava Dasya Rasa, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Transpersonal Psychotherapist specialising in Trauma, Grief, and Contemplative Spirituality and Renewal. Ava is also an author, poet, spe...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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42:30
The Emotional Drivers of Fatigue — with Heather McKean
Heather McKean is an experienced coach and healer. Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by rep...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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46:09
Meditation, Healing and Awakening — with Ashok Gupta
In this episode, Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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40:07
Breaking the Chronic Fatigue Cycle — with Sharon Wirant
Like many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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46:40
'The Breaking of the Shell' — with Elaine Walker with Anna Grear
The Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer)Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain, from The Prophet, and par...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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46:10
Your Amazing Reality-Shifting Brain — with Ben Elers
What if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states? In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast. Ben is an inn...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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45:23
Layer on Layer in Healing from Fatigue — with Patricia Kolbe
In this episode, Anna speaks with Patricia Kolbe, who has had her own battle with debilitating chronic fatigue. Patricia is a coach on the Energy BluePrint Program (Ari Whitten) and the Gupta Program (Ashok Gupta). Patricia h...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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46:55
Fatigue, Healing and Working with Dreams with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist. In this conversation, Terry and Anna explore the rich allusiveness of dreams as a portal to the unconscious. Various themes emerge — but the core enc...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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45:29
The Layers of Healing from Fatigue Conditions — with Dr Evan Hirsch
In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch, the 'Energy MD' and founder of Fix Your Fatigue. Evan takes a multi-layered, highly systematic approach to the healing of fatigue. He has helped thousands of people recover. In ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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47:13
'Body-Mind' v 'Physical' Approaches to Recovery (with Dan Neuffer)
This episode features Dan Neuffer, author of CFS Unravelled: Get Well by Treating the Cause, not just the Symptoms of CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS and Related Syndromes. Dan is the creator of the ANS REWIRE Recovery Pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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51:25
'Thinking-With-Water': Fatigue and the Self (with Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos)
The guest for this podcast edition is artist, fiction writer and academic, Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopolous. In this edition, Andreas and Anna play with the theme of 'thinking-with-water', reflecting on how such thinking might shed...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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35:25