The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

In this edition of the podcast, Anna speaks with Dr Athene Knufer, neuroscience researcher, somatic 'mindbody' coach, and yoga nidra guide. Athene first studied psychology with neuroscience, and then went on to complete a PhD in Developmental Neuroscience.  Athene has suffered from serious MECFS, but is now forging ahead with their own work as a somatic practitioner, guiding others into...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Katherine Elizabeth Anker. Katherine is a Consciousness Coach and transdisciplinary thinker. Together, Katherine and Anna explore Katherine's understanding of MECFS and Long Covid through the lens of her experience as a mother witnessing and holding space for her son's healing journey, her experience as a coach and her work as a transdisciplinary thinker...

This episode is a multi-layered guided imagination experience, using hypnotic language, music, sound effects, and more to lead the listener further into their own body as a space of healing.  Originally published on Anna's 'Convexplorations' podcast, which is a combination of conversations, meditations, hypnotic techniques, guided journeys, and intellectual inquiries—using sound, mu...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Carissa Conrad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapeutic Pain Specialist, and Health and Wellness Coach. Carissa's experience of recovery from Long Covid fundamentally reshaped her practice. She now offers patients an approach that blends nervous system regulation, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, and advanced manual therapies. In this conversation, Anna and Cariss...

In this episode, Anna and Dr Maya Shetreat (MD, neurologist and ceremonialist) discuss the incredible more-than-human intelligences of plants, cells, mitochondria and more. This is a truly exciting, deep and exploratory conversation in which Maya offers multiple mind-expanding insights. Together, Anna and Maya explore master plants, human and plant kinships and the intimacy of respiratory exchange...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch (the Energy MD), who has helped thousands recover from Long Covid and ME/CFS. The conversation raises some fascinating points: how Long Covid can be understood as ME/CFS with a different viral trigger; how the nervous system and mitochondria are not 'dysfunctional' but highly functional, intelligent and communicative. Evan covers the 5 mai...

In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with her friend and colleague Jack Strömer. Jack has his own walk with chronic fatigue syndrome and a deep practice of Zen meditation. In this conversation, Anna and Jack explore the invitational nature of illness in relation to spiritual maturation. Themes of curiosity, openness, allowing and the intimacy of 'not knowing' all emerge at differe...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Shivani Gupta, an expert in Ayurvedic medicine. Through years of research and dedication, Shivani explored the incredible power of turmeric as a potent natural anti-inflammatory and later developed her own supplements powerful enough for doctors to recommend to their patients for every day use. In this rich conversation, Shivani's passion for wellbeing and...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Jana Norman, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia. Jana has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, as well as, more recently, Long Covid.  In this conversation Anna and Jana explore the role of the body, and of materiality itself, as way of receiving the wisdom of evolutionary intelligence at work in the body and the world. Th...

A special bonus episode marking a gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of the Fatigue Files podcast.  This is a hypnotic journey into a world of healing possibilities, drawing on imagination and suggestion. It elicits a sense of connection with a deeper sense of agency, inviting you into a more expansive sense of self, one who can co-construct your own experience.  Listen with headphones on. Take the...

In this episode, Anna reflects on the importance of understanding the centrality of the body as a sensing, capable field of aliveness and a highly evolved, highly  intelligent field of meaning-making.  She explores the Western myth of the body-mind split and challenges the sense in which some approaches to healing are almost echoes, no matter how well-meaning, of that older mythic structure.  Is i...

Having been diagnosed with CFS in 2012, Shaun Moran recovered using various layers of health optimisation science-based approaches.  Shaun now works as a health and recovery coach and offers a program called the 'CFS-Free Recovery Program'. In this conversation, Shaun and Anna explore some (but not all) of the layers of health optimisation based in a fundamental respect for the evolution...

Frances Goodall is a Wellbeing Coach, author, creator of the Lotus Process Video Series, a Sex and Pleasure Coach for Women, and a practitioner of Internal Family Systems and Family Constellations. She has extensive training in a range of modalities and can be reached via her website, listed below. In this conversation, Frances and Anna share their experiences with Kundalini processes drawn from t...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Matilda recounts her deep journey back from a desperate situation of deep fatigue, trauma and isolation. She had been, at one point, taken to the very edge of her sense of wanting to 'continue as a being'. Her journey back to life centrally involved plants as companions or kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The she...

Anna Rahe is an expert in fascia. She founded GST Body — a whole fascia conditioning system.  She has been a somatic and lifestyle educator for over 20 years. She has run different body studios, lectured and taught around the world and spent time on faculty at the University of San Francisco. She enjoys working with all people and bodies ranging from professional and Olympic athletes to young chil...

In this bonus episode of  The Fatigue Files , we hear from some of the participants on Anna's groundbreaking  Healing Transformation Blueprint Program.  The program attracts people who want to move beyond recovery into deeper layers of healing, wellbeing and transformation. Here, some beautiful souls on that journey share glimpses into a powerful, co-emergent healing process.  Whether it is s...

Dawn Wiley is running an incredible experiment in vagus nerve stimulation — using her own body as her primary field of experimentation. Dawn has come from a position of profound debility to a much more functional level of health through her determined exploration of a range of vagus nerve-stimulating technologies. She runs a Facebook group: 'AVA A Vagus Adventure' in which she generously...

In this episode of the podcast, Anna speaks with Ava Dasya Rasa, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Transpersonal Psychotherapist specialising in Trauma, Grief, and Contemplative Spirituality and Renewal.  Ava is also an author, poet, speaker, teacher, and spiritual director.  In this rich conversation, Anna and Ava first explore Ava's own journey with chronic and serious illness, before dis...

Heather McKean is an experienced coach and healer.  Together with her partner, Kent, she has designed a healing system called 'Mind Change'. This is a healing system that draws on the power of the mind-body system to allow stability by reprogramming the brain's patterns. Mind Change is a collection of new, cutting-edge techniques that draws together a range of effective modalities t...

In this episode,  Anna and Ashok discuss meditation, healing and awakening. Themes related to the therapeutic use of mindfulness, hypnosis, and practices of deeper awakening converge to produce a fascinatingly rich conversation. You might not have heard Ashok speak like this before, even if you know his work. Ashok Gupta is well known to the community of people who are on the healing journey with...

Like many in the audience for this podcast, Sharon Wirant has chronic fatigue. Her chronic fatigue stems from working in toxic environments and from chronic stress. Sharon is near to recovery from toxic mold exposure, Lyme disease, and adrenal fatigue. Her condition was ignited by a ‘push through’ attitude that resulted in a chronic stress response in her brain and left her body vulnerable to infe...

The Breaking of the Shell — by Elaine Walker (Interviewer) Tears were very close as I listened to Anna's story. Her courage in the face of such pain reminded me of Kahlil Gibran's poem On Pain , from The Prophet , and particularly this line, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding'. So many people who go through serious illness seem to encounter...

What if you could generate a range of different choices and experiences that help you to generate powerful healing states?  In this episode, Anna speaks with Ben Elers, a fellow hypnotist and neuroplasticity enthusiast.  Ben is an innovation trainer and coach for 'disrupters and change makers — helping accelerate innovation by thinking and imagining in new ways — based on how your embodied br...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Patricia Kolbe, who has had her own  battle with debilitating chronic fatigue. Patricia is a coach on the Energy BluePrint Program (Ari Whitten) and the Gupta Program (Ashok Gupta).   Patricia holds two master’s degrees and has completed five years of doctoral-level research training. She brings a fantastically wide set of skills, experience and knowledge to her w...

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist. In this conversation, Terry and Anna explore the rich allusiveness of dreams as a portal to the unconscious. Various themes emerge — but the core encouragement to all who suffer from complex fatigue is to work with dreams because such work can be truly transformative and healing. Terry is an author who w...