I cannot express enough thanks to these professionals sharing knowledge like this. I'm simply do not have access or ability to get resources like this. I've leanred so much about myself that would simply not had time for in the past rat race that used to be my life. I am just studying things until I feel better. This psychological, mental and emotional wisdom is a so much needed right now. A port of safety and relief in this terrible long covid storm that has no end in sight yet. Other videos helped me learn the vagal maneuver to relieve tachycardia episodes that my doctors simply did not teach me. Grateful they put this information out there so we can find it ourselves. A gift to humanity. Thank you.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
More than welcome!
@francesmontgomery2977
7 ай бұрын
The language of common sense coupled with professional knowledge and integrity will always find the way to those who need it most. The fact you add to that the lived experience of this illness profoundly adds to the impact of your words. It is the lived experience that provides us with the humility and honesty to be compassionate to communicate openly as we all struggle through to find some acceptable level of recovery. You’re a wee gem! I have only discovered your site in recent days but I can tell already it will be an invaluable tool. Thank you.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
@@francesmontgomery2977 aww thank you for saying that Frances I so appreciate it! 🤗
@taragunn9400
7 ай бұрын
@GungaLaGunga where did you learn the vagal manoeuvre please?
@GungaLaGunga
7 ай бұрын
@@taragunn9400 well the paramedics tried get me to do one when I called 911 with my very first SVT episode, but i was in panic mode in that moment, and couldn't do it correctly. I've correctect abuot 13 out of 15 SVT episodes in the past year. I think of it also like what a jet fighter pilot goes to overcome G force to keep from passing out. I learned it on KZitem and experimented myself. So, ask your doctor first before trying it. Search term: "modified valsalva maneuver for svt"
@taragunn9400
7 ай бұрын
Perfect timing! Someone posted a video that was suggesting LC is ALL fear based- but I couldn’t articulate myself well enough to say what this video is saying. LC has kicked off a fear response in some ways- but we ain’t thinking our way out of this!
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
So glad it was helpful! Do you remember where that other video was - I’d be curious to watch!
@taragunn9400
7 ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465I’m in your fb group. I will send it via pm.
@Josh-if7to
7 ай бұрын
Your voice is calming.
@GrahamSharples-mx5og
7 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for clarifying neuroplasticity & the limbic system in such easy to understand ways. It's so helpful for me.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
More than welcome!
@user19374name
Ай бұрын
i cant even tell you how appreciative i am of this perspective!!! for so long i have felt like there is something wrong with me bc it didnt work for me.
@sallyriggs465
Ай бұрын
Upsets me so much the narrative of failure that these brain retraining programs push. Definitely nothing wrong with you!! 🤗🤗 you just need to learn, befriend and support your nervous system.
@user19374name
Ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465 finding this alternative narrative that it really is not all just needing to think better thoughts or that im at fault has been a lifeline. i have this saved! thank you!!
@sayit-sayit
7 ай бұрын
You're helping my family. Thank you. I look forward to your videos.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
More than welcome! So glad the material is resonating!
@djones2857
Ай бұрын
Wow - thank you for explaining why I've gotten nowhere with brain retraining. I've tried 3 different programs during the past 7 years and could not do the visualizations AT ALL. Now I know why - it's not because I'm a loser, failure, or in "limbic resistance." What I need is the bottom up ANS work - THEN reinforce rest and digest by creating new neural pathways with limbic training.
@sallyriggs465
Ай бұрын
More than welcome!!! I wish more people were explaining this!!! It’s definitely not cos you’re a loser or a failure!!!
@sallyriggs465
Ай бұрын
Also just a heads up my online course is gonna be on sale next week (Aug 19-25) so make sure you’re in my email list!!
@seaweedeater3104
7 ай бұрын
I’ve watched this several times and I really am none the wiser on how to actually get better.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
Maybe watch some of my other videos that talk about nervous system work and how to do it..?
@Zsazsazoella
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so for much for this! What is, if I feel like I am never in rest and digest?
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
That would be very common. Most of us start out in chronic freeze. There is a way out! You need to start with learning and befriending your nervous system.
@leaperrins8373
7 ай бұрын
This is so important! So many recovery stories incorporate brain retraining, and I absolutely think it is valid. However, there has always been a question around when to apply it for me. I read Jan Rothneys book recently and she talks about this also. Jan states that doing things when you are feeling well and safe enough to do them will build new pathways, whereas doing things when you are stressed out, fatigued and overwhelmed just enforces those states, and pushes you deeper into shutdown. Recovery from long covid, I believe, is multifaceted. Reduce stress, increase connection (if that feels right), increase feelings of safety and anything that makes you feel good. Eat as healthily as possible not to add more dietary stress on your body. Concentrating on keeping my breathing under control whilst doing activities was something that helped me, and not resisting rest. I always wanted to push and not rest when I felt fatigued which is silly I know! Brain retraining exercises are helping me not signal more danger to my body which is already struggling. I made a 80 percent recovery initially from covid (took 6 months), could run and exercise, felt pretty good. But then I got a kidney infection and gradually became more tired until one severe relapse/crash after aggressively defrosting a freezer one day. Overnight I lost all physical ability almost. Crazy! All of the above helped me get to that 80 percent initially. I believe that if I could get to that 80 percent before then I can do it again!
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
Something that people don’t talk about enough is building more capacity and flexibility in your nervous system. You can calm it a little a feel somewhat better but then another stressor will just shut it down again. We have to increase capacity so we can tolerate more.
@sona9687
5 ай бұрын
Did you take ciprofloxicin?
@sallyriggs465
5 ай бұрын
@@sona9687 I did not. I have not taken any antibiotics for LC nor heard of anyone who has.
@kala9907
Ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465 how do we increase capacity?
@sallyriggs465
Ай бұрын
@@kala9907by learning your nervous system, befriending it and then supporting it. Lots of info in this channel and in my book or course. 🤗
@Happyhappyvrai
7 ай бұрын
Hi! First of all: Thank you sooooo much for your knowledge that helps me more than and other theory. Then, I have a question: can we be totally shutdown, but having high heart rates (like anxiety with adrénaline rushes)? Or is that fight or flight with no energy?
@pinkelephant43
7 ай бұрын
This is my state too. It's the freeze response - one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake at all times.
@sallyriggs465
6 ай бұрын
So you can definitely be in blended states, so part of fight or flight and part of shutdown. But the trick is figuring out what are signs of each state for you so that you can know if it’s fight or flight pulling for shutdown, or shutdown with some activation…I would also add given the complexity of our (depends which researchers you read) pseudo or actual POTs I definitely had HR spikes even though I was predominantly in shutdown for months.
@roydecaestecker9375
7 ай бұрын
I find it difficult to sort out if I'm in rest & digest or in shut down. How do I tell the difference. e.g. Am I in rest & digest watching tele, playing darts, hitting the weight room, .... ?
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
It’s definitely difficult to figure this one out for a lot of us! Take a look at these two videos they should help kzitem.info/news/bejne/y42rmntphoVopaAsi=XLrySSF_Gst59vex kzitem.info/news/bejne/u4uX3JqKmF-FaqQsi=hPmQa_LqL1-Oy9uW
@mindful__gardener
7 ай бұрын
I agree alot of retraining programs are keeping people stuck. I was one of them. I had 70 symptoms. Mast activation syndrome histamine intolerance ibs uc anxiety ptsd ocd looping thoughts and more. I am fully recovered. I became my own guide..guinnea pig and made mistakes and found what worked. I treated it as an alarm system. I call it the Alarm System Reset. It works faster and the journey sucksss but it works. 🤪
@mindful__gardener
7 ай бұрын
I have it on my channel. Free.
@sona9687
6 ай бұрын
What healed you?
@layalhamoush4443
6 ай бұрын
What has worked for you?
@sadnagoso-yn6iz
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for helping us god bless. I have a question i developed breathing issues after covid. I have long covid since 2021 August. And so many symptoms have been cleared with brain retraining. But I have Problem with air hunger. I do exercise for air hunger but no changes and meditation 🧘♀️. What can I do? I can’t walk because of this,because after walking small my air hunger increases. Thank you again.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
I would recommend working on your nervous system. If we are in extended fight or flight or shut down our diaphragm goes into spasm and can’t regulate our breathing correctly. This can’t be fixed through breathing exercises but rather calming the nervous system
@Ponkelina
7 ай бұрын
Have you read her book? It gives advice.
@max-cs9ko
7 ай бұрын
My personal observation is something different, long covid is somehow associated with limbic brain or Emotional brain and limbic brain develops during 0-6 years of child growth. Hence, it's difficult to train Or modify it, most of modern psychology fail to help developmental trauma due to same reason. As per my experience, NARM therapy which is specifically designed for developmental trauma can be a game changer in LC
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
More than welcome to think that Max! The science does clearly show the physiological and biological mechanisms at play, including the vagus nerve. But limbic disturbance would then be a byproduct not a cause. Might also wanna check out this other video I did… kzitem.info/news/bejne/y6mms5Ojcotzo4Isi=tmSzm8S8qJ_VwzW0
@max-cs9ko
7 ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465 As of now, we really don't know what's exactly cause long covid, almost everyone gets covid during first and second wave and get vaccine later but only few people got long covid, I think it's something related with developmental trauma, people with developmental trauma have dysfunctional flight and fight response capabilities that's why some individuals fail to deal with covid period normally and get overwhelmed by it. And it's lead to dysfunctional vague nerve and other biological and physiological issue, again it's my theory and i am not a medical expert
@jlcook9614
7 ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465 Thanks Sally I came to ask for the link for this video. So appreciate your work and sharing, so validating and reassuring.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
@@max-cs9ko more than welcome to have that theory max like I said. And why some people get long covid and others don’t is certainly the million dollar question. But in terms of what causes long covid we have good research looking at viral persistence, auto-immunity, damage to the endothelium which causes microclots, and a few others. The only bit we don’t know is which pathophysiology is chicken and which is egg, and also we do know there are different phenotypes, but we don’t know if there are different pathophysiological triggers in those different phenotypes.
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
@@max-cs9ko we do know what is causing long covid and it’s definitively biological: damage to the endothelial lining resulting in tiny microclots; viral persistence from the spike protein, probably in the gut causing major ongoing dysbioisis; vagus nerve damage from the spike protein; immune dysregulation and autoimmunity. We just don’t know which order each of those happen in ie which is chicken and which is egg, or which different mechanism is responsible for each different phenotype. Yes people with developmental trauma do have ANS dysregulation but I know lots of folks with childhood trauma who had covid and didn’t get long covid so that isn’t definitive. More than likely it’s a combo of biological things.
@Tupac4sure95
3 ай бұрын
MY BRAIN FEELS ITCHY AND AFTER THREE YEARS SEEMS TO BE MAKING MY MEMORY FADE FASTER AND FASTER 🤷🏽♂️
@sallyriggs465
3 ай бұрын
So sorry to hear that 🤗
@lilmac-sh1xd
7 ай бұрын
Any idea how to stop the insane adrenaline dumps???
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
May well be histamine related. Are you taking H1 & H2 blocked and/or a mast cell stabilizer..? Might help to ask your doc about those.
@Zonnerise
7 ай бұрын
The way out of freeze is stimulation of the nervus vagus , or ? But I am trying to do that, but nothing works. I tried for example the eye movement exercise of stanley rosenberg ( super dizzy after that for weeks ), I tried amofit device ( super quick overstimulation ), I tried solfeggio frequencies ( overdid it once and again overstimulation and super tired ). So what is not right about this ?
@sallyriggs465
7 ай бұрын
Yeah I didn’t find any of those things to be helpful either. What I did find helpful was learning my nervous system, befriending it, and calming it with polyvagal strategies. Lots of videos on this channel that talk about that. And I also wrote a how to book and made that into an online course. Lots of options!
@Zonnerise
7 ай бұрын
@@sallyriggs465 so all those "calming the nervus vagus" things were too much for your nervus vagus/ nervous system to ? I wonder why ? Do I/ we forget a step before the calming exercises etc ?
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