So I just got the best thing in the mail and I thought let's start the podcast by shouting

it out because it's not just about each one of us getting well, even though of course

that is what it is mostly about. But what it's also about is creating real substantive

change so that the world thought leaders can start to understand the incredible power

of mind body medicine to heal and to eliminate chronic conditions of all kinds because as we

all know around here, chronic pain and chronic conditions are an epidemic of fear. Yes, it is

expressed as pain, but this is an epidemic of fear and meaning that we are terrified that we

don't have any power over our own lives or any control over our own health and we have so much.

So I'm starting here with a letter I received in the mail the other day. You guys might recall

her name is Ida and she was one of my early podcast guests. She was a young woman, a dancer from

Finland and she had reached out to me with an email totally out of nowhere so I did not know her,

I had no, we had never made each other's acquaintance and she told me that she had been a serious

dancer and she had been bedridden for over a year contemplating her suicide, planning her suicide

and had given herself until Christmas before she decided to take her life and in I guess we'll

call it a beautiful coincidence and people say there are no coincidences. She came upon my work via

the internet and started journal speak and she wrote to me on my fifth day of journal speak I

walked for the first time to my kitchen and made a cup of tea. I have never been so moved by an

email that I received. Only a few months later she was walking and hiking and I think very soon

after that it really was only several months for her of really dedicated doing the work. She was

dancing again. Her dancing videos are spectacular. Obviously it took her a little time to get back

into the saddle after being bedbound for a year but she's only in her 20s and she's an amazing,

amazing young woman and as part of that email she wrote me she expressed a desire to finish her

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