So this is kind of weird because I am recording this before the new year, but it will air after the new year.

So I'm going to say, yay, it's 2020, but it's not.

But it is when you're listening to it. So it is.

We are in the midst of a new year and a new decade and you know what guys?

We are going to make this one count.

This is your year, my dear loves.

You are going to turn your life around and it is going to be so spectacular.

So I'm really excited for you and I'm really excited to share this interview I did today with Christine Houtman.

So Christine was a participant at my Omega retreat last year and I think she was the very last person to sign up.

According to her story, it was 10 days before and I really think that she was the very last person to sign up

in a moment of total desperation and total helplessness and with no faith in her ability to get well at all.

She took a chance and she signed up to come to Omega and it's totally changed her life and I actually didn't even know the extent of her story at all until we started talking today.

So I'm really excited to share it with you.

The reason I thought to contact Christine in the first place is because what I remembered about her from Omega is she came in very angry.

And I know that anger is the primary emotion that Dr. Sarno always connects to the syndrome of TMS and all-mind body related illness and pain and different symptoms.

And I have expanded that to include fear and shame and regret and embarrassment and trauma and all the things I talk about.

But anger is still a huge reason that we experience pain because anger is so unacceptable in our society.

We are so much more well received when we're sad or we're scared but to be angry is really punished.

And so I think that it's really important to highlight when someone's willing to talk about anger and to see how she was able to overcome it and to see why it was there and why it was so necessary for her to feel through it.

So I'll never forget Christine's anger and her bravery at opening her mouth in Omega and just saying I am so angry and allowing herself to do what needed to be done to be heard in her own mind body system and in the group and then have her have such a transformation.

So I contacted her also because Christine is an active member of my journal speak page and I love to hear the wonderful advice she's always giving people there.

So I'm looking forward to sharing that with you.

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