Wendy K. Laidlaw

Because not many physically, medically trained doctors really understand the mind body.

And I'm not even sure I like the term mind-body because to me, when someone says mind-body, it makes me think, oh, well, I somehow have some kind of conscious control and it's just a case of willpower.

I prefer the term brain-body because we're always training our brain to manage our mind through the journaling and the meditation.

But when you come to brain body, you're talking like things that are out with your conscious control that are perhaps deeply embedded.

And that if there's been any trauma, as I say, or any loss or anything like that, that you may have even forgotten, you're not even aware is going going on in the background of your operating system.

it can be devastating to people.

And I know I've been through the process of people projecting onto you that you're somehow an attention seeker and a hypochondriac.

So the doctor I was talking about in particular is called John Sarno, Dr. John Sarno.

I don't know if you've heard of him, but I've read several of his books and they're quite technically written, but wonderful for our left brain.

And I think our left brain sometimes, I know for me,

I remember my therapist saying, you know, stop reading, Wendy, and just relax.

And I'm like, what do you mean stop reading and relax?

I need to figure out what's going on.

I need to get well.

So I know that there, you know, there's some of you like that, that you're still kind of like, you know, what's going on.

I think you just need to trust that you have all the answers inside.

that if there's anything that's still showing up in your body, it's because it needs some light shined on probably what is going on deep in the subconscious, underneath the water, deep in the iceberg.

And to really...

keep working on what I would refer to as parts but creating this compassionate protective parent part and this compassionate nurturing parent part and I say too and it could be male female they don't have to be your parents that you could make them be in your imagination that you could make them be the most loving cuddly I have an imaginary kind of place that I go to I have these characters I have these

when I've been triggered in the past, I don't tend to need them quite so much now, but I know that I've had to work really hard at that because again, left brain me was kind of like, it's a bit silly, do I need to do this and all that kind of stuff.