Mar 26, 2021
Sarah S. joined me to talk about her recovery from twenty five years of back pain, starting at age eleven. We explored what it was like to her to try to get past her understandable skepticism and sense of being a ‘back pain expert’ after all of her years of suffering, though she is now able to appreciate that what she was was an expert on back suffering. When she was introduced to Sarno — like I was when I first heard about a potential book cure — she was not only skeptical, but concerned about the state of her life that it had come to that.
She offers thoughts, very generously, on her experience thinking it all through, including what it was like when she finally read some of Sarno’s books and we each reflected on how important it was for us to have heard the full picture of sufferers and why it made sense on a broader scale in the body and mind.
She and I both love to talk about this subject and it comes through, as we planned to do another interview soon. But I enjoyed so many unique aspects of this one, such as our both being captivated by hearing other people talk about back pain in the past tense, or struggling with how to let other people reject the mind body perspective and be stuck in their suffering.
Sarah is a great example of someone who was willing to be open to the perspective enough to hear out the ‘leap of logic’ that she needed to understand her body, her mind, and herself, in a whole new light, and this allowed her to have some things she wanted so deeply, including her baby daughter. She notes that she had been terrified to have a child because of the weight on her back, but is thriving and doing well with it, much to my delight!