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My TMS Recovery Plan

In January of 2013, I attended my daughter's third birthday party in a wheelchair. The pain in my right  Foot  was so severe that I could not step on it at all. I had severe pain in my eyes that preventing me from reading, using a computer, or watching tv. Several months later, I developed terrible pain in my wrists that left me unable to use my hands at all. Then came the crippling  Back Pain , and then pain my achilles tendon. By November of 2013, I was unable to work and unable to care for myself or for my child. I could not sleep and had no reprieve from my physical and emotional pain. No medical treatment was able to help me. My life was a tiny ball of fear, pain, anxiety, and  Depression . This was the cultimation of years of chronic pain that had started at the age of fifteen, and had consumed my life on and off for years at a time for the ensuing fourteen years. A year and a half after that birthday party, in July of 2014, I was hiking a mountain in my new home state of Col
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My TMS Success Story (crippling foot pain - plantar fasciitis, wrist pain, eye pain)

From July 2014: Since discovering the work of Dr.  John Sarno  8 months ago, my life has undergone a transformation that I had never dreamed was possible.  My journey of chronic pain began when I was 15 years old. I developed chronic, crippling pain in my left  Foot  that was diagnosed as  Plantar Fasciitis . After many different treatments it finally went away after a year, but returned when I was 18 years old. The pain continued, and after a year, I was completely unable to walk, and took a year off of college and had a surgery to straighten my left  Heel  bone, which had become crooked because I walked incorrectly for so long due to the pain. After the surgery, I was able to walk without pain wearing shoes with orthotics, but I was unable to take a single step barefoot without terrible pain in my left foot that would then take days of rest to resolve. I had thought that I would never walk again prior to the surgery, so I was just grateful that I could walk without pain at all.  At
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