Joanne Smith was told fibromyalgia was lifelong and incurable, but she reframes it: the symptoms aren't a broken nervous system, they're your brain's protective alarm system misfiring. Changing how you think about the condition, not accepting the incurable narrative, opens the path to healing.
pieces missing to the recovery journey. So definitely, if you're not clear and you don't have clarity on the root cause, then without realizing, that's getting in your way massively, massively. So for example, me being told that I had a lifelong issue that was incurable, which was called fibromyalgia, and being told that there is no, no, there's no recovery. And I believe that that got in my way massively because I believed that my, something within my body, even though I may have believed it was my nervous system at fault, I still believed that it was at fault when actually there's nothing about me that's at fault. Everything's working for me. It wasn't, it was, it was the brain. firing out an alarm, believing, perceiving that there is an issue with my back, with my neck, with my leg, with all the other things. I won't bore you with everything, but that would— the brain was actually doing its job. It wasn't really at fault. It was doing protection. It was protecting me. So by avoiding doing things, by talking about these things, complaining, feeling doomy gloomy, downhearted about it, all of that checking and expecting and treating and everything unfortunately was showing my brain this is a real issue.
