Embrace the Suck of Life - Honestly Coping with Challenges
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- čas přidán 31. 12. 2022
- Coming to terms with and accepting difficult life challenges is extremely difficult. This video shares how I learned how to embrace a life changing health condition, along with strategies to help you successfully battle your health condition or other form of adversity.
For more Information: please see my 2 books:
Beyond Pain and Suffering: Adapting to Adversity and Life Challenges- rb.gy/52qvaj
Diagnosis Dystonia: Navigating the Journey- rb.gy/qww2ca
Website: www.tomseamancoaching.com/
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Hey Tom! I found you just a couple weeks ago and want to tell you how much your videos helped me!
I was getting worn out dealing with everything by myself and your honesty about living with the condition really helped me ground myself. Didnt take a break from the rehab I’ve been doing myself and am shocked to say I have had ZERO pain the last 3 days! I have my life back. I feel like myself again. I went for the first run id been on in years and went 5 miles in a snowstorm, no falls! I can’t lift weights for more than 5 minutes before a healthy person stops their workout to come tell me how strong I am. I don’t feel sick anymore! Why… my perspective changed. Im not a victim of dystonia, I am it’s end! Dystonia made a fatal mistake when it took my breath from me… now it’s the one suffocating as I mock it… cursing it out of my body and stealing everything it took right out of its hands while it sits paralyzed in fear of me! When rehabbing the very worst areas now I can’t just feel my way to the pain anymore and I hear myself roar “where are you motherf$&@!” as I go searching for if and cast what’s left of the illness out of my body piece by piece.
I feel very inspired to create some spotlight for myself that I can use to encourage others as well. I had always wanted to compete in body building competitions and Ive decided to start competing and use it as a way to encourage others suffering with movement disorders.
There’s so many reasons to be hopeful each day and you’re great at helping people see the light in utter darkness. I really appreciate all that youve done for me and am encouraged to know it will help others too. Thank you, Tom!
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful success and such kind words!! In addition to changing your perspective, which I believe makes a world of difference, what have you been doing to target your dystonia (treatments, therapies, etc.) that has been most helpful?
@@TomSeamanCoaching I’ve honestly implemented so many different things into daily living that add up to living a healthier lifestyle with the ambition to be better each day. There’s a lot that’s been helpful, all of it without doctors as well so Ill write a bit as you never know what could help somebody with dystonia.
It started by just using loud music to settle things down a little when I just couldn’t take it. After a couple weeks I realized just how well it worked and started trying to “dance” through life. I became much more mindful and learned to quiet my racing mind and adopted some changes to my life to lower my stress levels substantially like moving back in with parents. I started meditating in my own way. I also became very aware of what I was doing at all times which helped me “keep track” of my body. I also stopped buying donuts and eating my pain which helped the symptoms chill out tremendously. Had gotten off benzos in the spring and by fall was enjoying a very clear head. These werent nearly the same kind of issue but I got off anti inflammatories, muscle relaxers, and started actually staying away from alcohol and gabapentin. All of this allowed my posture pump to finally work with less tension in my neck and I got into a much healthier shape.
In time my symptoms settled until the pain was bearable but I kept up the same practices and incorporated more. I learned some techniques to relax the vagus nerve and trick the nervous system into calming down. Id use them constantly through the day, practicing relaxing my body with my mind. After a long day of cooling off the symptoms I started doing intense “rehab” sessions at night. Lights off and music playing, meditating, breath work. It all helped me to touch the most painful parts of my body and I learned to desensitize the nerves to stimulation using massage techniques. Moving more and more on my own, isolating the muscles and focusing on the mind muscle connection like bodybuilders.
Once I had been doing these rehab sessions daily along with keeping music on while walking unassisted it seemed like my body got with the program. Something about the structure of calming my symptoms down all day with stretches and then going face to face with the problem in the evening seemed to kick me out of apathy and into fight mode. I made sure to do these sessions every single day. Not taking a break when I was sick of it all helped build the strength I needed to put all of it together in daily life. I started setting goals and playing around with visualization techniques. I also stopped running from my emotions and started dealing with my traumas. I bought a pair of budgies. I even went to the crime victim center for some help. I tried to do something kind for a stranger on my bad days. I started verbalizing how happy I was to be alive to others on my good days. When I had awkward moments in public I would tell strangers what was up. I asked for help in the gym. I watched chiropractors put ppl back together on CZcams and learned from the good posture of others. I watched how others use their bodies to accomplish basic tasks like using a fork and practiced myself. I watched disney movies to help understand the link between posture and emotion. I learned everything I could about posture, neck structure, dystonia etc. I rode a bicycle when I couldn’t walk well. Engaging in any part of everyday “healthy” living was helpful in reducing the symptoms and increasing function so at a certain point I just started to LIVE again. Hopefully some of this is helpful to somebody!
@@macintoshimann9892 That is super informative and helpful. Thank you! I did a lot of the same. I hope everyone who watches this video reads what you did/do so they can see how they can take a similar approach to improve their particular situation. We rely too much on doctors when so much of it is our responsibility through intensive self-care.
@@TomSeamanCoaching Agreed! Im so thankful for all the help I found here on CZcams!
@@TomSeamanCoaching hey is there anyway that I could reach out to you through email because my father been dealing with dystonia for quite some time now and we had a few questions that we would like to ask you if that’s possible
Thanks Tom will do 🥰