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Mind Your Body
- Author
- Nicole J Sachs
- Narrator
- Nicole J Sachs
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Learn how to free yourself from chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue and illness in this accessible and compassionate guide from acclaimed psychotherapist and leading mind-body clinician Nicole Sachs.
Does it feel like your body is failing you?
Does it feel like you've tried everything for your chronic pain, yet nothing seems to work?
It doesn't have to be this way.
In Mind Your Body, Nicole Sachs shows us a new way of understanding and tackling chronic pain by nurturing your mind–body connection. Covering how chronic pain and other persistent conditions can be influenced by the brain's response to stress, Sachs offers us deeply healing ways to truly understand the connection between your emotional wellbeing and physical symptoms.
Through practical, evidence-based techniques, she also explains the essential practice of turning inward, using her revolutionary JournalSpeak method, which has enabled countless people to achieve striking mental, emotional, and physical healing.
Inside you'll discover:
- A clear introduction to the science behind the mind-body connection and nervous system regulation
- Insight into how stress, trauma responses and suppressed emotions may contribute to chronic symptoms
- Practical exercises, journal prompts and self-reflection techniques to support emotional and physical wellbeing
- A compassionate framework for approaching chronic pain recovery with greater confidence and hope
Whether you're living with chronic back pain, sciatica, IBS, pelvic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, long COVID, anxiety, panic attacks, nerve pain, skin conditions or other persistent symptoms, this accessible guide provides tools to help you move beyond fear and towards lasting change.
Practical, compassionate, and grounded in evidence, Mind Your Body offers an empowering approach for anyone seeking to understand the deeper drivers of chronic pain and reclaim a fuller, healthier life.
'This book serves as a transformative road map, offering actionable steps that promise liberation and empowerment.' – Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back
‘Nicole Sachs deeply understands the connection between trauma, the body and chronic illness, and her transformative program can help anyone suffering from chronic pain live a better life.’ – Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global
‘Life-changing…I went from chronic and debilitating back pain to complete freedom, on and off the court. I can’t thank her enough.’ – Michael Porter Jr., professional basketball player with the Brooklyn Nets
‘Provides a tool kit to set you free from chronic pain and anxiety. I hope the whole world reads it.’ – Rachel Platten, Emmy Award–winning recording artist
‘Offers not just hope, but a clear path to lasting recovery. This is essential reading for anyone ready to break free from suffering and embrace true wellness.’ – Dr Scott Lyons, founder of The Embody Lab
© Nicole J Sachs 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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Nicole Sachs deeply understands the connection between trauma, the body and chronic illness, and her transformative program can help anyone suffering from chronic pain live a better life.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, founder & CEO, Thrive Global
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When faced with chronic symptoms, I personally applied Nicole’s insights to unveil my path to healing. This book serves as a transformative road map, offering actionable steps that promise liberation and empowerment.
GABBY BERNSTEIN, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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The work I did with Nicole has been life-changing. When three separate back surgeries didn’t resolve my pain, Nicole’s work on nervous system regulation and her explanation of the mind-body connection opened a whole new world. I went from chronic and debilitating back pain to complete freedom, on and off the court. I can’t thank her enough.
MICHAEL PORTER JR., Denver Nuggets
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Nicole unmasks our people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, and ‘niceness,’ and shows us precisely how to finally properly listen . . . and heal.
ELISE LOEHNEN, New York Times bestselling author of On Our Best Behavior and host of the podcast Pulling the Thread
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Filled with detailed accounts of how stressful events shape the pain we experience in our bodies and anxiety in our emotional landscapes, we learn how strengthening mental skills of attention, awareness, and self-compassion can transform our suffering, as we shift from merely surviving to thriving in a new life of freedom and choice.
DANIEL SIEGEL, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Aware
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Nicole’s work helped me to fundamentally change my life, allowing a gentle and brave light onto the wounds I’d buried. This book distills all her wisdom, with insight and passion, and provides a tool kit to set you free from chronic pain and anxiety. I hope the whole world reads it.
RACHEL PLATTEN, Emmy Award–winning, multi-platinum recording artist
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A transformative guide for anyone seeking to understand and heal chronic pain. Sachs’s groundbreaking approach, rooted in the mind-body connection, offers not just hope, but a clear path to lasting recovery. This is essential reading for anyone ready to break free from suffering and embrace true wellness.
DR SCOTT LYONS, founder of The Embody Lab
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While the young mind is filled with potential, it also stores the seedlings of chronic pain. Nicole Sachs is on a mission to help us understand the brain’s power to connect emotional experiences with physical responses, so that pain becomes surmountable. Her deep conviction and crystal clarity are life-changing, literally. This is a must read not just for people managing chronic pain but also for the healthcare providers eager to help them.
CARA NATTERSON, MD, bestselling author of The Care and Keeping of You and This Is So Awkward
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Nicole Sachs has been invaluable to me during my darkest days and beyond. Her loving and tireless care helped me heal from my trauma and loss of my beloved partner. The unbearable sciatica I suffered over five years ago has never come back thanks to the tools I learned from Nicole. It is not hyperbole when I say that she gave me my life back.
RICKI LAKE, Actor, Talk Show Host, Documentarian
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After years working alongside my father, Dr. John Sarno, Nicole Sachs has developed an approach to chronic pain that is the truest and most accessible evolution of TMS treatment. Her work captures the essential components for healing, and has changed the lives of countless people worldwide.
CHRISTINA SARNO HORNER, LMHC
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Details
- Author
- Nicole J Sachs
- Narrator
- Nicole J Sachs
- Duration
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529955941
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Mindfulness, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Popular medicine and health
Synopsis
Learn how to free yourself from chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue and illness in this accessible and compassionate guide from acclaimed psychotherapist and leading mind-body clinician Nicole Sachs.Does it feel like your body is failing you?Does it feel like you've tried everything for your chronic pain, yet nothing seems to work? It doesn't have to be this way. In Mind Your Body, Nicole Sachs shows us a new way of understanding and tackling chronic pain by nurturing your mind–body connection. Covering how chronic pain and other persistent conditions can be influenced by the brain's response to stress, Sachs offers us deeply healing ways to truly understand the connection between your emotional wellbeing and physical symptoms.Through practical, evidence-based techniques, she also explains the essential practice of turning inward, using her revolutionary JournalSpeak method, which has enabled countless people to achieve striking mental, emotional, and physical healing.Inside you'll discover:A clear introduction to the science behind the mind-body connection and nervous system regulationInsight into how stress, trauma responses and suppressed emotions may contribute to chronic symptomsPractical exercises, journal prompts and self-reflection techniques to support emotional and physical wellbeingA compassionate framework for approaching chronic pain recovery with greater confidence and hopeWhether you're living with chronic back pain, sciatica, IBS, pelvic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, long COVID, anxiety, panic attacks, nerve pain, skin conditions or other persistent symptoms, this accessible guide provides tools to help you move beyond fear and towards lasting change.Practical, compassionate, and grounded in evidence, Mind Your Body offers an empowering approach for anyone seeking to understand the deeper drivers of chronic pain and reclaim a fuller, healthier life.'This book serves as a transformative road map, offering actionable steps that promise liberation and empowerment.' – Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back‘Nicole Sachs deeply understands the connection between trauma, the body and chronic illness, and her transformative program can help anyone suffering from chronic pain live a better life.’ – Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global‘Life-changing…I went from chronic and debilitating back pain to complete freedom, on and off the court. I can’t thank her enough.’ – Michael Porter Jr., professional basketball player with the Brooklyn Nets‘Provides a tool kit to set you free from chronic pain and anxiety. I hope the whole world reads it.’ – Rachel Platten, Emmy Award–winning recording artist‘Offers not just hope, but a clear path to lasting recovery. This is essential reading for anyone ready to break free from suffering and embrace true wellness.’ – Dr Scott Lyons, founder of The Embody Lab© Nicole J Sachs 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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