The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW From the Vault: REAL TIME HEAL: Anxiety, OCD, and the Mother Wound with Crystal
Jan 26, 2026
A powerful real-time healing session about childhood sexual abuse and its long-term effects. They explore how early trauma shows up as anxiety, OCD, and physical pain. The conversation examines a fraught mother-daughter dynamic and using inner child work and JournalSpeak to reclaim safety. Practical practices like short meditations and journaling are offered for nervous system healing.
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Childhood Sexual Abuse And Early Trauma
- Crystal recounts being molested at age five by her friend's father and the trauma of demonstrating it with Barbie dolls to police.
- She describes how that event changed her sense of bodily safety and shaped adolescence decisions.
Abusive Teenage Marriage And Panic Trigger
- Crystal married young and experienced a mentally and physically abusive relationship starting in adolescence.
- She links early marriage and abuse to later anxiety and panic attacks triggered by substance use in Vegas.
Finding The Podcast That Changed Perspective
- Crystal discovered Nicole Sachs via another podcast and realized her stomach pain and fibroids were stress-related rather than purely medical.
- Listening to Nicole triggered the connection between her symptoms and her relationship with her mother.