The Vital Side Podcast 41. Traditional Medicine to Mind-Body Medicine - Jen's Story of Healing CFS
Are you wondering how you can make a career out of your healing journey? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Jennifer Mann to discuss how leaving traditional medicine led to her current career as a mind-body practitioner. Jennifer details her personal journey with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), using brain retraining & somatic work to find relief from chronic symptoms, working with Lindsay in private sessions, and ultimately, forming a business around chronically healing.
Jennifer is a certified mind-body practitioner and has worked in the health and wellness industry for 10 years as a functional movement therapist, holistic bodyworker, yoga teacher, pilates instructor, and performance coach. After her CFS diagnosis, Jen went on to fully recover and co-founded a trauma-informed healing course called CFS School, where she now helps people thrive in their wellness.
Show Notes:
-Jen’s journey & personal story – her background in traditional western medicine, her experience as a ballet dancer, and experience in the biomedical space
-Jen’s experience working in a traditional hospital setting before her own chronic symptoms started
-The beginning of Jen’s journey with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) using western medicine approaches – seeing many doctors & specialists, getting many tests, trying antibiotics + antivirals – and her health was only getting worse
-Getting diagnosed with POTS & having no energy
-Jen’s decision to leave her traditional work in physiotherapy and her desire to focus on whole mind + body healing > simply managing her symptoms
-Jen’s experience working with Lindsay in Vital-Side and learning how to change her state
-Learning about the vagus nerve, Polyvagal Theory and the role of movement & physical touch in healing
-Using somatic experiencing as the missing piece in Jen’s healing journey
-Finding Human Design and receiving the permission to show up as her most authentic self (i.e receiving vs. pushing)
-Early signs of Jen’s purpose to help others heal when she was a ballet dancer and helping others with physical pain
-Tuning into her gut feelings and intuition to make decisions to start her business, CFS School
-The early days of Jen’s business – experimenting, taking a slow & steady pace allowed her new business to flow with ease
-Jen’s story of pregnancy - how she was able to defy the prognosis given to her by fertility doctors
-Using visualization on her uterus to get her body ready to bring life into the world
-Getting pregnant after 1 “try”, despite what the labs said
Resources:
-Jenn’s Instagram: @jcamylee
-Discover your Human Design here
-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
-Information on Vital-Side programs and private sessions here
-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
-Visit Cait’s Website
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