The Fatigue Files — with Anna Grear

In this episode, Anna speaks with Dr Evan Hirsch, the 'Energy MD' and founder of Fix Your Fatigu e. Evan takes a multi-layered, highly systematic approach to the healing of fatigue. He has helped thousands of people recover. In this conversation, Evan discusses a range of practical themes fundamental to recovery and healing. His approach is all about finding the causes, matching them to...

The guest for this podcast edition is artist, fiction writer and academic, Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopolous. In this edition, Andreas and Anna play with the theme of 'thinking-with-water', reflecting on how such thinking might shed light on the experience of fatigue — and the self — as a lived experience.  We reflect on the fluid nature of self, fatigue itself, and the trans...

This episode features Dan Neuffer, author of CFS Unravelled: Get Well by Treating the Cause, not just the Symptoms of CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS and Related Syndromes. Dan is the creator of the ANS REWIRE Recovery Program .  In this conversation, Dan and Anna explore the perceived dichotomy between 'body-mind' and 'physical' approaches to recovery from fatigue. They problematise t...

In this episode of the Fatigue Files, we hear from Mary Tutaev. Mary facilitates a Death Cafe in Bristol, England. She works extensively with the process of grief and its multiple dimensions. She has also suffered from ME/CFS. In this thoughtful conversation, Mary and Anna explore the various dimensions of grief as it emerges for those in the process of feeling that they are losing themselves in a...

Dr Sarah Myhill is one of the best known authorities on fatigue recovery and has worked extensively on ME/CFS. The Paleo-Ketogenic diet is a diet she has used for over 20 years to help patients reverse various chronic conditions, including (and especially) ME/CFS.  In this intensely practical conversation, she explains the advantages of this diet, its evolutionary appropriateness and the perils of...

In this beautiful discussion, Rebekkah LaDyne and Anna Grear explore somatic sensing, presencing, and awakening to deep self-attunement to the body, including in meditation practices. This is a richly wise and nuanced discussion, deeply valuable to those suffering complex fatigue. The book mentioned is The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom by Willa Blythe Baker. To access Rebe...

In this episode we hear from Dr Silvia Binder. Silvia was declared clinically dead 5 times as a young woman, and received a powerful gift of intuition that she uses extensively and powerfully in her clinical healing practice. In this conversation, Silvia shares the importance of trusting 'the knowing' and living from intuition. Silvia is the CEO/President of the Ondamed Companies in New...

Dr Terry Marks-Tarlow is a Clinical and Consulting Psychologist with over 30 years professional experience behind her. Terry teaches clinicians how to tune into body, mind, brain, spirit and relationship. In this conversation, she discusses attachment, self-attunement and healing, the healing power of the imagination and more. Terry is an author who writes on non-linear science, creativity, play a...

In this episode we hear from Rebecca Tolin about her approach to healing and recovery.  Rebecca is a mind-body practitioner who regularly helps people recover from chronic fatigue, pain and other mind-body symptoms through teaching, coaching and writing. Her approach is a convergence between science, somatic meditations and timeless wisdom  — and all this comes through in this generous conversatio...

In this episode,  Anna Grear reflects on fatigue in relation to the 21st century's need for a new kind of 'I' apt for the complexity and challenge of the times. Weaving her own 'stark' journey from one kind of self to another in her own walk with ME/CFS, she suggests that those of us with fatigue simultaneously offer critique and hope to an exhausted world — that we are po...

In this episode, we hear from Fiona Agombar. Fiona is a yoga therapist, author and Rest Activist. She specialises in teaching live online yoga for all fatigue conditions. This includes CFS/ME, exhaustion, burnout from stress and Long-Covid. Fiona is the author of the popular book and DVD Beat Fatigue with Yoga , and Endless Energy .  Her new book (with contributing editor Leah Barnett) Yoga Therap...

In this episode, we hear from Barbara J Hunt, a self-confessed forgiveness enthusiast. Barbara is also a coach in self-development and spirituality, as well as a bestselling author and musician. Barbara believes that forgiveness is like a forgotten superpower that we all have, but don't use, and that forgiveness can transform every relationship with have, including with ourselves. Forgiveness...

In this episode of The Fatigue Files , Dr Jana Norman, a Certified Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, shares her passion for the healing intelligence of trees, forest bathing and the deep, relational connection between humans and nature. Jana's professional background is in community development, and she has degrees in psychology, theology and law. Sh...